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Originally Posted by stuartmaxwell

i dont mind sitting through a soundcheck, me and my friend did a few weeks ago but i really think that you should speed things up a bit, there was so much fannying about in the soundcheck we watched, (the aubl gig)

if you are losing customers during soundcheck get the bands to pull their fingers out and act a bit more professionally

We usually manage 4 bands in 2 hours. There's a 15 minute changeover between bands so that typically leaves 15-20 mins to soundcheck each band. The monitors have been causing us problems due to their relatively poor quality, meaning I can't apply as much volume as the bands would like. Last Saturday I hired in some new very high quality ones to try out, and plan to do the same again this weekend with even better ones. Ultimately we'll buy whichever ones work out the best. This will make life much easier for everyone as well as ensuring that we remain broke for another year.

Originally Posted by stuartmaxwell

i also thought that the pa sounded really guff in that particular soundcheck!might have been better when there were more people in the venue, but the low frequencies were non existant and so were the snares

Yes EXACTLY!

But err that's the point of a soundcheck... like to err to CHECK the SOUND. I welcome any criticism of gigs - but soundchecks???

If it sounded perfect at souncheck then all you'd hear during the gig is low frequencies (unless nobody showed up). Part of my job is to compensate for the difference that 150 bodies are going to make to the sound. I guess another option is to order a lorry load of cadavers to simulate this but it's probably easier on the nose to just trust mu judegment

The sound checks last Saturday went even worse (much worse) but the resulting sound during the gig was close to what I was aiming for although I believe I can still improve on it. On Sunday the sound was even better.