Sound engineer can mute the amp from the console??

Langueta · #1 03-21-2010, 10:13 AM

Strange thing happened at a gig!
It was some minutes before starting to play and I played the bass when the disk jockey was playing some songs. The problem was that when I was already for the first song the mute function of my amp was on. The sound men can control this from the console???? or someone activated the function from the amp??

TheDarkReaver · #2 03-21-2010, 10:21 AM

From the amp.

kesslari · #3 03-21-2010, 10:23 AM

A few questions.

1. What did you have to drink?
2. What other substances were you ingesting?

No, it's not possible to mute an amp from the console, unless you have a bizarrely high-tech amp that I don't know about, and they were using a similarly bizarrely high tech console and had a USB type connection to your amp.
Since that is unlikely - were you offstage between the time that you played during the DJ set, and when you came back to start the song and the mute button was on?

Most plausible explanations are based on the likelihood that someone (perhaps you) pushed the mute button, either on purpose or accidentally.

Langueta · #4 03-21-2010, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by kesslari

A few questions.

1. What did you have to drink?
2. What other substances were you ingesting?

No, it's not possible to mute an amp from the console, unless you have a bizarrely high-tech amp that I don't know about, and they were using a similarly bizarrely high tech console and had a USB type connection to your amp.
Since that is unlikely - were you offstage between the time that you played during the DJ set, and when you came back to start the song and the mute button was on?

Most plausible explanations are based on the likelihood that someone (perhaps you) pushed the mute button, either on purpose or accidentally.

I don´t push it, I am sure of that....I stayed there for that time. Very strange

Langueta · #5 03-21-2010, 10:40 AM

I never use that function

jimmy.timms · #6 03-21-2010, 10:42 AM

Only if Chuck Norris is the Sound Engineer.

derridiandrift · #7 03-21-2010, 10:42 AM

You probably had it muted the whole time and fooled yourself into thinking that you could hear your own bass while the dj was spinning a tune.

That, or you're in need of the services of FBI agent Fox Mulder because you're being haunted by invisible alien beings that go around pushing mute buttons on amps at the most inopportune times.

T-Bird · #8 03-23-2010, 04:21 AM

Hi.

Back in the day I dreamed there was such a feature on consoles/amps, but sadly enough that's not possible easily.
Hell, I would've liked to use that kind of feature on last weekends gig as well, when the guitarist nudged himself yet another notch off the band.

What amp?

On some amps (like the Fame I use), plugging in the footswitch activates the mute.

If the mute button was depressed though, someone just used it for some reason.

Regards
Sam

MIJ-VI · #9 03-23-2010, 04:50 PM

Poltergeists?

SwamiRob · #10 03-23-2010, 04:54 PM

I wouldn't be surprised if a sound engineer somewhere had remote control over power to the stage to mute the kinda people that keep on ****ing about for 20 minutes after sound check.

Tsal · #11 03-28-2010, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by SwamiRob

I wouldn't be surprised if a sound engineer somewhere had remote control over power to the stage to mute the kinda people that keep on ****ing about for 20 minutes after sound check.

It's been out for years..

Piss off the soundguy, risk your electricity suddenly disappearing