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02-07-2005, 03:32
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Sonic Improvements
The new monitors are here and they are indeed amazing. No doubt Mark will be able to tweak them a little further but already the difference in phenominal. Like the FOH these are tonally perfect and you can hear the difference out front in as much as you no longer hear the sound of shit monitors coming off the stage. This makes the vocals crystal clear out front. They are also loud enough to be comfortably heard over the backline which is no mean feat on our little box of a stage. Not even a peep of feedback all night either, even with 3 vocal mics in use and one of those on the kit.
We previously caught some flack for our guitar sound and the new backline with the powerbrakes has done wonders for this. The guitar is powerful andl vibrant sounding now - you can really hear the valves working... although of course this only applies to valve amps. The Ampeg is a big improvement on the bass. Please note: from now on the principle of GIGO applies...
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02-07-2005, 19:11
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God In, Gospel Out. Let God into your heart, and Spread the Gospel of the Good Word whenever you can. The Moorings is now a Christian bar. God Bless.
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03-07-2005, 11:17
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*** Mark arrived back from his holiday just in time for the first band yesterday, and had to run with my settings. Things went OK but it was apparent that some tuning was required so cue a 5am shift with an empty bar. The outcome being that the monitors now go 3x louder than I had them, and are crystal clear with absolutely no feedback. There's very little in the way of EQ on them either. Turned out to be more a *cough* configuration job. To give you some idea of how loud this is, after he made the final tweak and said "OK - that should be them now" I've had to go up on stage and say *drum roll* "One Two, ONE TWO" into them. So after tentatively waving my hand in front of the mics, tapping the mics, cupping my hand over them, waving the mics in front of the speakers etc, I finally pluck up the guts to give it the old "One Two"... ...and felt something akin to a freight train pass through my body (momentarily wondering if that kebab was dodgey after all) then almost staggered back into the drumkit. At the same time Ruth, Mark, and Laura who are out front, literally jump and let out a collective "FUCKING HELL!". It was so amusing that we spent another 1/2 hour taking the piss saying things like "Oi sound man - I can't hear a fucking thing up here winge winge" and giggling a lot. It feels naughty to have monitors this loud. No Marshall stack can compete with these. For the first time we're going to witness bands going "Umm can you turn the vocal down on stage please". We also came up with another good idea that we should have though of umm 18 months ago. The desk has 48 channels plus 8 aux and 8 masters, and we typically use about 15-18 (not counting aux and masters) for gigs with 6 more dedicated to jukebox, cinema, minidisc, DJ decks, engineers mics etc. There was a whole bank of 16 channels sitting there not doing anything. So we patched duplicate inputs from the stage mics into these, and fed those into the aux (monitor) sends post fader then turned off the aux sends on the original stage mics. Which mics are routed to which monitors and how much feed is provided is setup as a sort of gain structure with the loudest sends set to zero the others relative to those. The upshot is that we now have essentially a 16 channel monitor mixer for our stage sound, with separate compressors, gates, EQ, and phase on each of those channels. So if a band require something altered on stage we can quickly achieve this by moving a few faders rather than farting about with aux sends like before. So tonights jam should be very interesting... anyone fancy coming down to play?
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The Moorings Bar - Corrupting the youth of Aberdeen since 1965: http://www.myspace.com/themooringsbar "If Capital punishment makes the state a murderer then life imprisonment must make the state a gay dungeon master." -Rev. Jesse Jackson Please contact our promoters for a gig: fudgemusic@hotmail.co.uk "From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away." - Raymond Chandler Last edited by Flash@TMB; 03-07-2005 at 11:20. |
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