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Except that it's not their name, it's their qualification; they all have a Diploma in Advanced Volume Engineering.
And most pass with a 2,1,2,1.....
As a sound guy, I've lost count now of how many gigs I've done when the guitarists screw up a simple task of getting a decent sound out of their rig, playing their songs without making mistakes, and not being too loud. How do they get gigs? It amazes me...
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Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
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Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
I managed to convince one of our regular soundmen to take a DI from my Kemper a couple of years ago. There was much muttering but he agreed. After the gig I asked him what he thought. "Sounded great, no feedback, brilliant!" was the response. He just leaves an xlr cable for me to plug in now
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Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
I'm a partner in a company (2020 studios) that does a lot of live sound, even when you own the PA and are effectively the boss it's still not a well paid profession. The hours can be brutal, in summer festival season it's not unusual to work 18 hour days from load in morning to load out in the small hours ....Some bands are a joy to mix, some not so much ..... you do your best but some bands (people) really don't help themselves.
One thing I've learned from mixing people \ bands is the better they are the less help they need from the FOH engineer. Talented people confident in their own abilities just tend to get on with it .
In terms of layout routing layout I always go Drums - gap - bass - gap -guitars - gap - keys - brass - weird shit - vocals ... with the gaps being there when a band suddenly has 4 guitars or double keyboards for example .... on the actual desk though you make sure the things you need to access the most like vocals, guitars, brass are on the same layer ... things like drums can be on another layer as you don't generally need to access them constantly
Monitors and sends are just numbered left to right
Generally you won't get feedback from a guitar mic so much engineers will just put a mic on the cab knowing it will pretty much sound fine
The number of crap sound guys I've met and worked with and the number of good ones correlates perfectly with the number of good dentists, builders, drivers etc etc etc.
We have so much of a vested interest in getting our sound right that we get hyper sensitive is all.
The standard of 'engineer' is similar. Some are roadies that fell into the roll, some are great electronics guys but have no ears or don't function under pressure (getting a live mix without a soundcheck and not knowing the band/material is a skill and an art, few do it quickly and well and we all have an off day). Some are musicians that care about sound and tone but have little technical expertise and some are the best blend of all those things and nice guys to boot.
In terms of fixed chanels the early days of multi track tape saw it as easy to overload the kick drum chanel so it was always Ch 1 and any leak into 2 didn't matter as that was snare. These early studio engineer found themselves on the road if they were involved with a succesful album/band. (we're talking 8, 12 and 16 Ch desks here). Vocals would be on the right of the recording desk as they were ofton the last tracks laid down. So the convention of drums on the left through to vocals on the right was sort of default without anyone ever setting it as a standard. Now decades later those old boys have retired and others have come along. Digital makes handling the surface a whole different thing so put what you need most right in front for easy access on the top layer and have the prerecorded backing track buried because you have it all dialed in anyway.
@uncledick was very excited by the arrival of his state-of-the-art mixing desk:
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