Elm street

[liquidscreamer]

Bit of a nightmare last night,

First of all we had someone turn on an intro tape while we waited at the bottom of some stairs,he then introduced us,when he came back to us he said the mic was not working so louise said i,d better go and sort it,but like a coward i just went out and started the first song,louise came out and asked if it was working so i just said"i think so"she starts to sing and .....nothing.

So we stop the song,sort the mic and start again.

Feedback

Then someone passes a message that the music is drowning the vocals,so midsong i try to adjust the mic level.

More feedback.

Then i try to turn down the instruments instead,that had the affect of turning up the talking in the crowd.

After each song,in a crowd of about 60,only 2-3 people clapped.

Oh,and i couldnt properley see the control panels on the keyboards to change settings.

All in all in was a very uncomfortable 45 minutes which i thoroughly enyoed and cant wait to do again

[Gavin]

Oh dear. Just shows you the importance of a good sound check.

[binaryzero]

eh, it's always going to be trial and error.

you just need to develop a routine and a way to solve issues.
like a small light you can use to see your control panels, sounds like a compressor could be slapped on the vox to level em off a little bit.

how loud were the monitors on the stage?
quite often that can cause feedback by too much of the music picking up in the vocal mic.

besides fixing up the small issues, you'll tighten up in time.

[liquidscreamer]

we did a sound check to an empty pub 1hr earlier then i switched everything off to stop overheating.

The people we used for the first soundcheck said afterwards;they couldnt believe how different it sounded when the pub was full.

its all a learning curve ;D

[Gavin]

My band played a gig in a small hall with a high ceiling last year and when we sound checked it was reverbarating like fucking canterbury cathedral !
By the time we played with it full of people,it didnt ring at all.

[binaryzero]

amazing how much sound a human body absorbs isn't it?

instead of soundproofing i'm recording in a room full of fat people

[Gavin]

binaryzero said:

amazing how much sound a human body absorbs isn't it?

instead of soundproofing i'm recording in a room full of fat people

Remember to mix in some thin people to cater for the high frequencies.

[Synth Man]

Reminds me of my first ever gig. I was practising well before, but my Prophet-5 was a bit out of tune. Hit the A440 switch and you can imagine what happened next.

There was horrendous feedback, the worst I ever heard. One of the guys from the other band begged me to turn the P5 off, but that still didn't stop it. Eventually he managed to get to the coltrols and turn the mics off. Worst experience ever!