For the first time since Dec 2019 my band played it’s first gig at the weekend at a local charity music festival. There were 11 (quite different) bands on the main stage throughout the day/night.
The sound/ PA guys must have had magic powers or something. Every single band sounded brilliant from the first note: great (appropriate) volume levels with excellent balance and clarity. The monitoring was really clear as well. As far as I saw/experienced none of the bands even got the chance to do a line check before playing, let alone a proper sound check earlier in the day.
So how the bloody hell did they do it? We all know that guitarists using very different equipment, playing very different styles at differing volumes can be wildly at odds with each other. I just can’t understand how they reigned us all in and made everyone sound so good. Some sort of volume limiting technology or just a shed load of experience?
I don’t really have any experience setting up PA stuff but it was very impressive.
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I have a mate who engineers, he even did the last Snarky Puppy tour. What he can do is simply mind boggling to me. Every gig I've attended where he's been on the desk has been absolutely flawless.
The only thing that seemed to be shared was the drum kit.
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Then mix wise I'm working right to left, get the vocals up first because even people who know nothing about music know when they can't hear the vocal. So I get that up, then refine keys, guitars and bass before the drums.