"Could you turn your backline down a bit ? "

[Dad3353]

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1454186843' post='2967412']
I require three monitors just for myself!
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Then you're a passed-it, washed-out has-been, old bean. It's all digital in-ear stuff with wi-fi and rj45 nowadays, don'cha know..? Ah, these amateurs..! How they ever get gigs I don't know. Monitors, indeed..! Hah..! They're soooooo [i]passé[/i]...

Edited January 30, 2016 by Dad3353

[JohnFitzgerald]

I counted 4 - drummer has one too ;-)

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='JohnFitzgerald' timestamp='1454233256' post='2967619']
I counted 4 - drummer has one too ;-)
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The drummer really should have kicked off... I would want no less than a side fill. Floor monitor? Screw that.

[JTUK]

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1454138765' post='2966780']
I need extra monitors, what's that all about?! Wouldn't get many gigs round my end doing that, probably zero.
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The request was by an act and the venue had to contractually supply them.

I'm not talking about pubs though.. I've hardly mentioned pubs here at all and not in the context
of turning down your backline.

Still it suits some people or they can't comphrehend that, they can fill their boots.

Edited January 31, 2016 by JTUK

[LayDownThaFunk]

Didn't you play a pub last night...

[sunburstjazz1967]

Doesn't look like much of a touring grade PA system to me?

[EBS_freak]

Nope - but there is a stadium sized video wall behind JT's head.

And I can't work out if the guitarist has a small head or if it's just an optical illusion as he has no neck.

[EBS_freak]

One thing we can be sure of though - they are touring spec strides.

[sunburstjazz1967]

Did anyone go and see the windmill gig then? How did it go?

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1454332847' post='2968623']
Did anyone go and see the windmill gig then? How did it go?
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I would kick off the puns about windmills, but I'm not a big fan.

[sunburstjazz1967]

^a man who knows which side his bread is buttered clearly!

[sunburstjazz1967]

I see JTUK is milling around other parts of the forum but no update regarding the gig on saturday :-(

I was hoping he'd rise to the challenge, I'm not after a bun fight! :-)

[sunburstjazz1967]

Looks like this thread is starting to wind down now?

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1454362601' post='2969060']
I was hoping he'd rise to the challenge, I'm not after a bun fight! :-)
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There's no knead for that comment.

[SimonEdward]

The pic (below) is a little flippant - but we can all be driven to feel this way......

When I did play 'Live' (many years' ago), I would use my cabinet as a monitor - pointing at me from the front or side - and gave FOH a DI, without any complaints.

As some folk on this thread have already pointed out, IEM is the way it's going, but.. quite a lot of smaller venues just don't have any kind of PA! Oh, what the heck.. let's clear out the front room and broadcast 'Live' to the WORLD (never mind the local boozer) on an app called 'Periscope'.. it might catch on?

[sunburstjazz1967]

We are going around in circles now. I wonder how the ticket sails went?

[EBS_freak]

I'd spot those strides anywhere...



If that's the front of house (speakers on boxes) that you think are suitable for a venue that size, you should have turned that one down too...

[sunburstjazz1967]

That's plane daft surely?

[EBS_freak]

It's so the band can get high with groupies post gig.

[sunburstjazz1967]

I think JT was just winging it at this one?

[EBS_freak]

Gosh, this thread is really taking off.

[sunburstjazz1967]

I'm surprised he got that gig after ringing the ground crew regarding the pa and giving them some altitude.

[EBS_freak]

I heard they hung up on him because all he did was drone on.

[mcnach]

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1454529492' post='2970606']
I'd spot those strides anywhere...



If that's the front of house (speakers on boxes) that you think are suitable for a venue that size, you should have turned that one down too...
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I'm enjoying the puns

But I imagine this gig wasn't meant to *fill* the whole hangar with loud music. A lot of the time you just want a band to be reasonably loud within a certain perimeter, but leave the venue open overall so that people can talk too... I suspect this is one of those gigs. Sometimes the band is not what people go to see, but a side entertainment.

[JohnFitzgerald]

Of monitors and FOH levels.

Did a gig the other night at a local venue in Glasgow -The Grand Ole Opry (yes really, we have one here.)
It was the venue for a 14 night folky festival.

Subs were 4 18" Logic boxes. Tops were Logic LS12, 4 at the front and 2 for rear fill.
Monitors were a wall of logic wedges along the stage front.

Beautiful levels on stage and the rear fills on FOH worked a treat. Wrapped in warm sound, but never too loud.

Fancy Midas digital desk too.