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[sam.spoons]

Yup 

[Kev tyler]

I have a saying too

" for goodness sake will you turn me up, and kill the bass drum and bass guitar in my monitors please"

I have a foul mouthed variant of the above, but it's not for polite company such as this.

 

[gerenm63]

I have a saying too

" for goodness sake will you turn me up, and kill the bass drum and bass guitar in my monitors please"

I have a foul mouthed variant of the above, but it's not for polite company such as this.

 

"...will you turn me up..." is what I hear from every musician! Seems like everyone only want to hear themselves...

[Kev tyler]

I know mate

But  when I work with a 6 piece band, and sometimes can't sound check the engineer on occasions has does an iem mix for me, full of bass , bass drum, synths, lead guitar, overheads on the drums, I can hear the guitar because the marshal stack is three feet away,

There are good singers and good engineers I guess,

 

[gerenm63]

I know mate

But  when I work with a 6 piece band, and sometimes can't sound check the engineer on occasions has does an iem mix for me, full of bass , bass drum, synths, lead guitar, overheads on the drums, I can hear the guitar because the marshal stack is three feet away,

There are good singers and good engineers I guess,

 

Oh, lordy! No, if I have to rough mix something for someone who can't be there for sound check -- or there's not going to be time for sound check -- then there's no bass or drums in the rough IEM mix -- and that person's vocal is always a little more "present" than anything else. Of course, once I get the mix for someone nailed down, it's stored safely away (along with their channel settings) for next time.

[sam.spoons]

When I'm mixing for a muso who sings (and it's virtually always wedges at my end of the food chain) they get their own vocal first and, if they play an acoustic instrument that too. Anything else they only get if they ask for it. I'd do it differently if it was IEMs, I'd ask them to tell me precisely what they want in their monitor mix.

My best monitor desk anecdote though is of the '60 band drummer who had a JBL PRX635 (135 dB SPL) monitor about a metre from his left ear and when asked what he wanted in it he said "drums, just drums nothing else, and as loud as you can" we reached the point of feedback with the clip light on the speaker blinking and he said "louder"!!! TBF, when I told him that was it he said "thanks" and got on with the job. He must have been as deaf as a post 

[dpdan]

I have a saying.

When the sound is good, nobody notices

When the sound is bad, EVERYBODY notices!

THAT'S THE TRUTH

[robbocurry]

Often when faced with a musically challenged band who are failng on so many levels, the de-facto remark is:
"You can't polish a turd"

[Kev tyler]

Yes but you can roll it in glitter,

Cheers gerenm, job in Ibiza with your name on?

What annoys me about working with a live band is how together tight w.h.y  you are when you work on a tight stage, and as soon as you start doing festivals and such, the band wants to set up as far away from each other as possible and have everything in monitors, recipe for disaster imho.

 

[Wynnd]

Yea, I saw a suggestion that if you usually setup tightly, that even on large stages, you should continue to setup tightly.  That way, the sounds that you are used to hearing are still the sounds you are hearing.  I have run into bands that didn't make the transition to outdoor stages where so much sound leaves the stage.  If you don't make up that loss in volume to compensate, some musicians get lost.  (Really, shouldn't you be rehearsing at much lower volumes anyway?) 

[gerenm63]

Cheers gerenm, job in Ibiza with your name on?

Looks lovely! I'll be there next week!
(I wish!)
LOL!

[robbocurry]

Yes but you can roll it in glitter,

Lol😝😝😝😝

[sam.spoons]

Yes but you can roll it in glitter,

Lol😝😝😝😝

My beloved TC Finalizer, formerly known as "The Turd Polisher" has been re-named "The Glitter Box"......

Oh, hang on a mo.... can't use the name Glitter any more.....

[Kev tyler]

I tried introducing a regimented rehearsal process with my Spanish band, but by the time we had all shook hands and kissed each other  translated everything, it was time to go home.

 

[Nottoodeaf]

Stage volume addressed in the attachment.