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not so great gig last night
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Urgh
LIttle while ago we booked a gig at a quite well respected venue around bris, finally came up last night. Was meant to be a quiet night of pretty electronica with a few friends bands and an interstate band
we were second on the list, first band sounded awesome ( cloud vegas for anyone who cares link ) and we were up next.
First problem was the guy who was supposed to do sound and was booked by the venue to do sound dissapeared out across the road to play in his band. The venue had known about this and booked a friend of ours ( who was also playing that night ) to do sound.
problem was he had not used that system before, and with no soundcheck ( we were trying to keep times down between bands so its kind of our fault too ) we went straight on.
bad decision, guess we should have considered that house systems are like music gear and each on has a different setup
first issue was the feedback from the mics with any low freqs our gear was sending out, or anytime i move away from my mic 
second issue was how flat and muted it sounded thru the foldbacks, we could have been playing behind a wall of curtains from how it sounded, loosing all the top end.
this was of course how we thought we sounded on stage, so powered thru and got off stage feeling quite down and pissed about it all. But everyone who was there said it sounded fine thru the rest of the house speakers.
apparently there were 4 foldbacks on stage and each one was rigged up to do something different...
our poor friend was very appologetic at the end of our set and its not his fault.. he shouldnt have been thrown into the deep end..
[ / rant ]
we use a ef303 for vocal effects on stage, it does fine but maybe we need to look at something more grunty.. we tried a tc electronics rackmount verb and delay, and played with the hugely dissapointing cheap behringer ones ( you really do get what you pay for ) although a few people have said to check out their more high end units..
the ef303 sits lovely on top corner of heidi's motif, so something small would be great, but in the long run i think we might have to go for a rackmount... and then we have to think about sending everything through a preamp as well .. sheesh...
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09/22/06
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yghartsyrt
09/22/06
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quip
dont worry about the bad bits. its important. but you played a gig - thats cool!
09/22/06
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sclr
yeah don't let it get to you. i played a gig that completely kept me from playing live for almost 2 years. crackhead getting into a fight with the bartender, asshole sound guy wouldn't hook me up to the sound board, then when i gave him a converter(quarter" to xlr) he shat on the one mono channel he gave me. i was so burnt by this i never wanted to play live ever again. in the end tho i just wasted a couple years not getting out there. just try again.
09/22/06
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astroid
it's so hard getting a good stage mix. all the time i was playing in bands, i could never fucking hear myself, guitar, singing, flute, sax, anything. just had to fly on autopilot
09/22/06
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jogn
I had this one where we'd drunk a bit of beer and i couldn't hear anything. The foldback didn't do much. In the end i had to play by looking at what the other dude was doing on his guitar.
09/22/06
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mlbot
you should play at the Laird
09/24/06
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Dizzygotheca
mlbot said: " you should play at the Laird "
the Laird would be a good place to play...
no one knows how to party like a drunk gay leatherman
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