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No jizz spraying/soloing.
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Edit: pub band with no sound person. 2 guitars, main vocalist and 2 bv mics. The drums and guitars have mics and the bass is di'd. We do a basic line check for everything and use the settings from the last gig as a starting point. We just use a song to adjust to the sound of the room.
We’re a pub band and don’t have a separate guy doing sound, so once set up we run through a instrumental verse of “you really got me” while the singer wanders out front. We’re a single guitar band so that’s pretty quick. The singer has a radio mic so joins in and I also use a wireless so get to go out front and check how it sounds with the vocals. Then a change of guitar and a quick blast of maybe “sultans of swing” as that’s a very different guitar sound and style. That’s it.
Sometimes our soundman likes to treat us to a long and painful drum soundcheck which involves endless whacking of a drum while he tries to gate the ring out of a floor tom or something similar. Drives me mad !
Lack of discipline is generally the problem with a lot of soundchecks. Basically everyone needs to stay silent until told to play and then play something relevant to what's in the show on an instrument that's already tuned. Nothing worse than everyone doodling in their own little world all in different keys
On those rare occasions when someone’s got a new piece of kit then we will check it’s levels.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Now I'm in a drums/bass/guitar/vocs band (that's not mic'd up) doing pub gigs, it's just a brief burst of a part of a song while the girl singer's partner points at me or the bass player. Generally that seems to involve indicating that I should turn up and the bass player should turn down . From where I'm standing, my guitar often sounds f'ing loud. But apparently everything sounds good out front.
Bands faffing about for ages at soundcheck drives me nuts. We played with a band the other week that did 3 whole songs, plus lots of tuning up and lots of changing leads to diagnose noise problems that were obviously coming from his cheapo Behringer compressor. In all the bits between songs the drummer kept bashing away at his kit, showing off various 'tricks'. Gah!
Once we're happy, we'll do a full song right through (but not one that's in the set) to make sure everything's good. Ten minutes tops from start to finish.
Anywhere from no soundcheck at all (5 minutes to get set up, and the first muted string rake to check it all works is as the sound-man turns the house music down and gives you thumbs up), through to a complete line check, run through of a song, a minute of back-and-forth about monitor levels, then another verse and chorus to see if the sound guy has actually done anything you asked for.
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Quick run through half a song once I've made sure everything is making a noise (that should make a noise).
No matter how happy everyone is with that there's always requests for changes a couple of songs in.
Roll on in-ears and individual monitor mixes. We're getting there, slowly.
It's also a nice way to warm the fingers up before the main show.
Me and the bass player both run direct, I use a Helix he uses a Sansamp. I set my IEM mix as post fader, so I get the same mix as the FOH mix. That way I can mix the band from the stage and also I can hear if anything goes wrong.
When we didn't have a chance for a proper sound check we had a special intro that we used to do where each of the instruments would come in separately in some preconceived buildup to the first song.. soundman could usually adjust quite well on the fly for when the first song properly started.