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11-07-2010, 06:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Pennsylvania | | | YES! I finally get to bitch about a sound guy!
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This bitching about a sound guy is a very special thing for me, our band is only 7 gigs into it, (eventhough were kickass)lol, very sentimental, and I may even tear up...sniff, I feel more like a bonifide gigger with a sound dude bitch. Last night our band played at a wierd, but friendly place, nice size crowd. About 6 songs into it, the "sound guy" came to us, and slurred he didnt want to come off as a di*khead, but he doesnt hear any highs from the back of the room, plenty low but no high. He staggered over to the board...sitting on the milk crate, didnt touch anything, just looked and went back to the back of the room / end of bar. We rolled our eyes and laughed it off cuz we heard ourselves fine and were seriously digging our sound. It was house gear, with a decent pa...no complaints there. I was able to take a few steps into the audience and listed from there, still sounded good to me. after the set, a good friend of mine sitting in the audience, asked me if I noted our "sound guy", at the point where he leaned over his milk crated board and spilled beer all over it. I didnt see that. Thankfully it had no effect on our set, we really kicked ass anyway, and were all on cloud nine today because we were so well recieved. I couldnt wait to rant to you guys about my first sound guy.....issue. Rock on! |
11-07-2010, 06:40 PM
| | | Probably a poor old washed up music-lover who can't hold his drink.  I feel sorry for the old man.
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11-07-2010, 06:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: glasgow (on the 16 bus) | | | awwwwww its so sweet
remeber this day because your not a oficial tb member untill you have had a rant about a soundman OR defended a soundman OR have had someone quote somthing you've said and used in there signiture
one day i will get the 3rd one
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11-07-2010, 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by OPBASSMAN1994 Probably a poor old washed up music-lover who can't hold his drink. I feel sorry for the old man. | As a paramedic I guess peoples ages all the time and theres no way he was over 35. Still old to some I guess,lol, not me at 44. |
11-07-2010, 06:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Pennsylvania | | Quote:
Originally Posted by s_mcsleazy awwwwww its so sweet
remeber this day because your not a oficial tb member untill you have had a rant about a soundman OR defended a soundman OR have had someone quote somthing you've said and used in there signiture
one day i will get the 3rd one | I can only aspire,lol. |
11-07-2010, 06:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | If his incompetence had no affect on your set, what are you ranting about?  |
11-07-2010, 07:03 PM
|  | Is this thing on? | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Where else? In the dog house. | | | The ruling on the field is under review. |
11-07-2010, 07:16 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Durham, NC | | | Bass sound takes a considerable amount of space to develop. It is entirely possible that you were too loud from the stage. What kind of equalization were you using? |
11-07-2010, 11:32 PM
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Originally Posted by bolophonic Bass sound takes a considerable amount of space to develop. It is entirely possible that you were too loud from the stage. What kind of equalization were you using? | A common misconception. |
11-07-2010, 11:42 PM
|  | I'll take you into the water. | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Brisbane QLD Australia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bolophonic Bass sound takes a considerable amount of space to develop. It is entirely possible that you were too loud from the stage. What kind of equalization were you using? |  |
11-08-2010, 12:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Richmond, VA, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bolophonic Bass sound takes a considerable amount of space to develop. It is entirely possible that you were too loud from the stage. What kind of equalization were you using? | i need to find that can of worms pic again... |
11-08-2010, 02:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Bellville, South Africa | | Quote:
Originally Posted by s_mcsleazy awwwwww its so sweet
remeber this day because your not a oficial tb member untill you have had a rant about a soundman OR defended a soundman OR have had someone quote somthing you've said and used in there signiture
one day i will get the 3rd one | Done 
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11-08-2010, 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by elgecko If his incompetence had no affect on your set, what are you ranting about? | Im ranting becuase he was a drunken, unprofessional waste. Even in my limited experience I know each tune needs to be tweaked accordingly, you wouldnt have known the band before us even had a singer if you didnt see him. Certainly couldnt hear him, but again, this dude just stayed at the bar being a creepy leech to the female patrons. And just the potential to screw us all up is enough for me to rant! |
11-08-2010, 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Ray Salamon A common misconception. | I dont know but from everyone we talked to, old band members, music people, people who would know all said we sounded awesome. Even the band after us sounded great...with no tweaking of the board in between. That bass wasnt too loud, and I doubt, after a decent investigation, that mine was. |
11-08-2010, 05:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Colorado Springs, CO | | | Two kickasses and an awesome. |
11-08-2010, 09:58 PM
| | | | Soundmen don't like bass players |
11-08-2010, 10:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Québec | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TGLbass Soundmen don't like bass players | 
euh....right, it's a huge conspiracy. |
11-09-2010, 05:46 PM
| | | | yes it is. They have meetings about it. |
11-09-2010, 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by BryanC Done | *happy dance*
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11-10-2010, 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by TGLbass Soundmen don't like bass players | I am both.
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