My band finally found a sound guy to come on board without getting paid for practicing. Heās simply in the band, he gets paid wen we do, lol. This was day one with him. I picked this song because itās the last song I posted of my band on the old forums, so if you heard it youāll be able to tell the difference the sound guy is making.
Heās already given us great ideas room conditioning, extra power conditioning steps (especially from the old lights). Heās also familiar with the X32 sound board we use. Bassically someone who understands the sound equipment the way we understand our instruments. And he recommended adding two of the large sub stacks in addition to the PA for solely the bass and kick so I like this guy already. All in all I think heās a great addition to the band. So now itās a band plus the light guy, the sound guy and my camera girl, ie my wife.
Way to go, John!
If the Community gets one āresident bassistā, at least itās a badass mother who runs a fast rock-solid line, sings backing vocals, and even sports the jeans/leather/long hair and ZZ top facials.
They should put you centre-stage man
Sounding good and you seem to have amassed a great team now. Only thing I could say was the drums seemed a little prominent but I was not on top of my PC speakers when listening so could be room acoustics this end. But all in all great cover and crisper than the previous version.
Nicely done, my favorite IM tune if Iām being honest!
Itās cool that you found someone to do sound on a permanent basis. We were talking about doing the same in my band when we last rehearsed. Good sound always makes you play better
Iād agree with you Toby but from experience you need the right recording tool to capture a balanced output live in a room. Difficult to tell whether the guitars were too low in the mix OR whether itās just the recorder thatās the problem. I know we ALWAYS have to turn up the guitars when Lisa arrives
@Endureth - You guys are killing it! Great job. Very cool that youāve found a sound guy that fits in with the group and knows his stuff. Thatās huge.
The bass sounded great! No wonder youāre a happy camper.
Hi John!
Congratulations on such a Ńool addition to your band!
I havenāt heard the version of the song from the old forum, but this one sounds just fine.
All four are well done. And I want to mention your bass playing - you are a virtuoso!
Keep on rocking!
Leo
Iāll stand there just like a tree, lol. Iāve been practicing staring at my fretboard so long I forget to interact with anyone.
There are certainly bugs to work out. This was the sound guyās first day even meeting us. Iām heading over to the practice room this week to make a lot of his recommended changes before next week. We gotta put up some drum shields and hook up the 15" subs because our current PA speakers donāt have subs (well, theyāre there on stage, stacks but not hooked into the PA). We didnāt expect to haul them around but Iām suddenly excited. Thereās a whole bunch of recommendations he made that we agree with and will be updating the whole space.
Itās was hard for us to find one. Most of those guys that run those mix machines have kush jobs so they expect to be paid for their time, even practices. We werenāt interested in that, we wanted to find a guy that was willing to get paid when we got paid, work on putting together a whole show and then renting venues and tour our way down to Daytona, then over to Sturgis, playing shows along the way. Itās hard finding someone willing to jump on that train. Now that we have the sound guy, we can concentrate on other aspects and nailing down our parts.
The guy we found works at an opera house/music hall as an assistant to the main sound guy. He mentioned that heās always wanted to work with a band so he had more time to work on the sound. At his day job acts come through all the time and he only gets one night on their sound.
Iāll be even happier once the subs are up and heās had more time to work on the sound. He was able to take the files from the practice home so he could set-up the x32 files before next practice. All kinds of routing, effects, triggers and whatchamados I donāt really understand.
Thanks for this and all the other encouragements in this thread! Iām so excited and I just canāt hide it. Iām about to lose control and I think I like it.
Cool look @Endureth
Love this song and solid playing.
Love to see you jamming with Kyllswitch; this must have been quite the workout?!
No trace of mud though and one of the seldom recordings I can actually distinctively hear the bass! I think he keeps the frequencies separated nicely
A video isnāt the best refernce for sound but perhaps the guitar could have used a bit more low mid? (perhaps in seperatign the instruments he took a bit much of his low end to lower the risk of beign too much in your territory? grain of salt; I can be completely wrong here.
Nice development with the sound guy! I was going to say that as per usual you, as the bass man, are pushed to the back of the stage but then I see the drummer is buried and hidden in his drum kit!
