From ynottnaro@yahoo.com Sat Oct 04 11:58:42 2003
Subject:RE: Simulator Over Leslie!!!

You're definitely right: when there is a good engineer
who cares, it is SO apparent right away. The guys at
the House of Blues in Chicago are excellent as well.
Other great Chicago venues to play with excellent
sound guys (if you come to town to work, these are the
spots!) are Martyrs (Lincoln Ave), Fitzgeralds (on
Roosevelt in Berwyn, my favorite!), the Park West
(Armitage, another newly acquired room for us that is
on the same tier or above as HOB), Wild Hare (reggae
club across from Wrigley Field). The guys at all
these spots are great, and REALLY know their deal.

Tony
--- David Jacques wrote:
> On the other hand, it is a real (and unfortunately
> rare) pleasure to
> have excellent sound people who care and are
> knowledgeable about the
> sound of the band both onstage and FOH. Whenever I
> perform at the House
> of Blues in Anaheim I am continually surprised on
> how much these guys
> and gals care, and what efforts they put in to
> getting the right sound
> during soundcheck.
>
> During one soundcheck my bass player was not happy
> with his onstage
> sound and the engineers worked with him for 30
> minutes fine tuning the
> bass until he was happy. When I arrive they have the
> Leslie miked in
> stereo with two wedges behind me with a stereo feed
> from the Leslie. It
> sounds awesome.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Hasley [mailto:chuckh4115@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 8:56 PM
> To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [CWSG] Simulator Over Leslie!!!
>
> Better yet is the guy who introduces himself as the
> sound guy and
> proceeds to reel off his credits over the next few
> minutes. They
> have always been working in LA or NY and when you
> cite a few names
> they've never heard of them or lie and say they
> have.
> Then the kicker comes when he looks up and the stage
> and asks what
> that thing is that's spinning behind the keyboard.
> OORRR he says
> "cool, a Leslie" and puts one mike on it-he sticks
> in the motor
> adjustment hole.
> Unfortunately I don't suffer fools kindly and I am
> constantly in hot
> water with these guys. Funnier is the fact that I'm
> an ass because
> the foh guy doesn't know his butt from a water
> meter. I do get a
> little bit of a kick over punching them when they
> are down. When
> he's up there fumbling around trying to get a mic in
> the motor
> adjustment hole. I let him do it, then tell him I
> can't hear
> anything. He'll gain the crap out of it until it
> feeds back. THEN
> he begins to sweat because he knows he's clueless.
> You would be surprised how many of these guys have
> never dealt with a
> Leslie. My guess is they just plain don't know how
> to approach
> miking the thing. That's why they want a line out
> of something.
> Better yet is the sound guy who tells me a Leslie
> sounds better than
> a sim only he doesn't know why. In reality, if it's
> mixed properly
> it should be real hard to tell. Once the Leslie
> tone goes into the
> board and comes out a mono signal the presence will
> sound more like a
> sim if it is not miked in stereo.
>
> I guess it's no different than the guys who call me
> wanting me to
> come out to their garage and join their
> soon-to-be-working band.
> That's another story.
> Lord help me!
> Chuck
>
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