Please rate my live sound!

[JimmyM]

Thanks for the posts guys. I know I'm a string watcher, and the last show we played, on campus at IUPUI in indianapolis, I looked down only a handful of times. The vocals usually get buried in the mix, but I think that is more of a soundman issue. Ill clip the guitarists strings.

eh, if the guitar/drum sound is something you all dig, don't worry what anyone says. you really can't tell a whole lot about tones from a webcam on youtube anyway.

and as far as stage presence, moving is cool but it doesn't have to be out of character to make it work. if you play better and feel better by standing in one spot, that's cool. but just making more audience eye contact will go a long way into improving your stage presence without taking you out of character. sounds like you're improving on that, though, so just be yourself...just a little more fun version of yourself, if you know what i mean

 

[Fiset]

I dug your tone and playing. Its hard to give a real accurate critique from a youtube vid and camcorder mic so I'll leave that for others but I liked what I heard.

As far as stage presence...I can tell you what worked for me. I used to practice sitting down. I would just sit on a stool or couch or whatever and practice at home. Then when I started gigging, I was a lot like you were in this video...sort of standing there...locked on my fingerboard, etc. So I started practicing standing up and then I started practicing moving around and these days I practice how I perform, which is to say I move around my music room ALOT when I practice. I glance at the fingerboard occasionally but have learned to look at the faces in the crowd or my drummer or whoever....I just don't stare at the bass. I'm not a crazy player but I do move around alot and even if its a tight stage...you can use body movement to groove without moving yuor feet all that much. The more you're into what you're playing, the more the audience is likely to get into it with you.

 

[stflbn]

Quite a bit more vocal volume.
Less guitar volume.

Bass tone seems good.