From tonysounds@yahoo.com Tue Aug 02 08:28:53 2005
Subject:Re: Q's re Pro3TM/Low Pro & Pro 145 Stereo Pair...
I used to bring a TON of power to the gig; 2 leslies for the organ, and a pair of 3way cabinets powered by an EVP1250 running 500w a side. Plenty loud on stage!, but it finally dawned on me I was using long throw cabinets that were louder 25ft away than they were next to me, and I changed my whole way of thinking. Reduced down to these short throw Yorkville cabinets angled across the stage as opposed to at the audience. The guys in the band love hearing the keyboards through my rig as opposed to the monitors, which we like to keep free of everything except vocals. The guitarist at the other end of the stage asks for some keys in his wedge to augment whatever he needs (he likes the key beds as it inspires him during solos).
But the point of this I guess is that I noticed our recordings changed. When I reduced my onstage wattage and cabinet design, all of a sudden the recordings featured much more keyboards. The engineer mixes for the room, not for the recorder, and I found that I was much more present in the PA by reducing my volume. Unlike guitarists, we don't need to wind up our gear to get them to sound good, and once guitarists figure out they can get even better tone from an 18watt amp wound all the way up, and that they will be put in the monitors/PA because the soundguy can't hear them, the world will be a better place.
Unfortunately, Sunday's soundguy IS a guitarist who still thinks OZZFEST is what everything should sound like.
*sigh*
T
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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