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[Daniel]

Originally Posted by Alkaline

I agree to a certain extent, but you can't seriously expect every band to be able to produce a sound that 'agrees' with your set-up. You can throw all the money in the world at a p.a and set-up but with little interaction/time with the bands you will never achieve a good sound in there. I wasn't impressed the last couple of times i was in there to be brutally honest, the sound in drakes and kef is much better.
Playing in a band myself, its nice to get a comfortable feel for the dynamics of the venue during a soundcheck and you can't do that at a level check in front of a crowd it's ridiculous.

Just my thoughts

i disagree with this, the moorings in my opinion is the best sounding place in aberdeen, when we played we got no sound check, we did volume levels and then went straight in and funnily anough to our shock it all work great.

[identity04]

As far as we has seen or experienced, the Moorings has the most looked after, efficient set up in Aberdeen. No where else locally respects their venue and the people in it as much as Flash and his team do. Seriously, even the set-up at Fury's in Glasgow (which is supposed to be one of the greatest live sound venues in the country) stands in the shadow of them. The whole deal with cutting out soundchecks seems fair on most levels and we agree with what your doing in the majority. IDENTITY like to soundcheck like any other band, but its not always necessary. Anyhoo if bands are putting in real effort they'd have their own sound sorted out before the gig and be organised without the need of a thorough soundcheck. Am I wrong? We trust the staff to do their job and they do it well all the time! I've no problem with leaving it all in their hands. They're capable.

See you on the 5th Flash

Alex

[DrBastard]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! *wipes tear from eye*

I love the forums!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not as much as i love the moorings though!

Though i would say sound checking does put me at ease, especially with me using the line 6 pod. But to be honest, everything seems to work out fine when i play moorings without a soundcheck.

Originally Posted by identity04

As far as we has seen or experienced, the Moorings has the most looked after, efficient set up in Aberdeen. No where else locally respects their venue and the people in it as much as Flash and his team do. Seriously, even the set-up at Fury's in Glasgow (which is supposed to be one of the greatest live sound venues in the country) stands in the shadow of them. The whole deal with cutting out soundchecks seems fair on most levels and we agree with what your doing in the majority. IDENTITY like to soundcheck like any other band, but its not always necessary. Anyhoo if bands are putting in real effort they'd have their own sound sorted out before the gig and be organised without the need of a thorough soundcheck. Am I wrong? We trust the staff to do their job and they do it well all the time! I've no problem with leaving it all in their hands. They're capable.

See you on the 5th Flash

Alex

fury murrays???are you having a laugh??? you are honestly having a joke here arent you, its a fucking hell hole, with pay2play shite, rubbish p.a and the like as they take the money for themselves and not for improving their venue.

hence why shite bands play there and good bands dont...

playing glasgow, play somewhere with morals, 13note is a good start

[liamtw]

we played furys not knowin anything bout the place we got there to be stood in some hole with a shit sound guy and pa but we did play to a couple hundred people it was an experience none the less but we basically went in blind and put on a damn good show leavin the place in shock

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