From oldzuto@yahoo.com Tue Aug 02 07:19:21 2005
Subject:Bad sound tech and loud six stringers
Hmmm...I've heard this complaint over and over again since joining this group less than a year ago. I'm in two bands and never have this problem. Both bands want me to be seen and heard and we spend a fair amount of time making sure everthing is balanced and sounding good.
Maybe you guys need to get in with a new group of players.
Perhaps the guys you all are playing with are not "team" members.
Why are people in bands? That's the most inportant question to ask when auditions take place. The answer should be to have fun and put together the best band in the land. All the glory will follow if the right attitude and building blocks are the starting points. Just like team sports are no fun without rules that all must follow, bands are no fun without common goals, and an important one is balanced and correct sound! If your guitarist want to blast above everyone perhaps they should start a solo career with a good sequencer.
Besides good keyboard players are the hardest position to fill and good guitar players are a dime a dozen, great ones only cost two cents more. Take the bull by the horns and drop those zeros! Find guys who have the right head on their shoulders.
Dan wright wrote:
Tony sez:
>The sound guys doing the event had a nice big wedge for me....that
>was totally dead, nothing coming out (schmucks!).
Either that, or distorted beyond belief....(8-< with the WRONG things in it!
>And while I heard that I was the victim of guitar/soundguy-itis
>(what a shock), at least on stage we could hear the mini-leslie just fine.
Whazzup with that? The bane of the keyboardist! My guitar player (the one in
my band) has said, and I quote:
"You are arguably the loudest thing on stage"....oh yeah?
I beg to differ, my friend. If he even detects that there is a keyboard (other
than his) in the mix, he goes bonkers complaining that it's too loud!!!
I fire up my rig in the sound check and he and the sax player scatter
to the corners like cockroaches when ya turn on the lights. Then the
guitar cranks up and the plaster falls off the ceiling and the liquid in
the drinks at the back start to boil and everybody just stands there-
doop-de-doop-de-doop...no big deal.............SHEESH!
ALL OF THE RECORDINGS of the band that have been done live, are
guitar, bass, and drums and some little honky-squeaky-maybe-there's-
something-there keyboards WAAAAY back in the back.
The other thing is that ya can't see us!!! We iz always in the back or the
side of the photos....in the shadows!!
Oh the woes of the keyboardist!!!
Dan
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