For those bands which use a click in IEMs, what are you using to get the click in your ears? Drum machines? Ipads? through the board? separate mixer......?
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What are you using for click
- Thread starter Wadge
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[DEL]Yeah, always wondered this.[/DEL]
Didn't read the question good enough. Wondered what type of click people preferred (counting, clave, tick, drum machine, etc.) Anyway, won't derail thread.
As you were.
Didn't read the question good enough. Wondered what type of click people preferred (counting, clave, tick, drum machine, etc.) Anyway, won't derail thread.
As you were.
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I've never had a click in my ears live, but I've been in lots of situations where the drummer has the click in his. Usually he'll just have a metronome next to him and maybe a little mixer to blend the click with his cue mix.
I can't imagine the pain a click must cause listening to it in ear through a live performance. Would much rather have a percussion track.
We use a couple of click samples out of Protools depending on the tempo/style of song and generally whatever the drummer likes best. I have some click in my IEM mix but I am generally cuing off the drummer live. The sample we tend to use most is a cowbell on the one and a click on the rest of the measure.
in my band, a tribute to Pink Floyd, most songs have sequences and a click to be in synch with video and lighting equipment. We use a notebook running Nuendo and every song has a count up (One... Two.... One-Two-Three-Four).
At first it was weird an uncomfortable... but when i got used to it, i just loved it...
At first it was weird an uncomfortable... but when i got used to it, i just loved it...
We dont use them because we like to be able to stop mid song and mess with the crowd. Even in the studio my guitar player is the only one who uses click. The drums are tracked first and are edited and scratch tracks are then muted and the guitars are done right after the drums. I honestly couldn't play with a click to save my life. Everything turns into polka for some reason so I just try to groove with the drums.
That said Ive played shows with a bunch of other bands that the drummer especially used a click. There are several little metronomes if the song is just one constant tempo. If the song has tempo changes the more popular route Ive seen is using a small laptop with the click programmed in or using a jamman or similar device with the click track recorded as a sample.
That said Ive played shows with a bunch of other bands that the drummer especially used a click. There are several little metronomes if the song is just one constant tempo. If the song has tempo changes the more popular route Ive seen is using a small laptop with the click programmed in or using a jamman or similar device with the click track recorded as a sample.
We use one click from the keys and one from the drummer's Dr. Beat, depending on whether the song is sequenced. There are dedicated channels for each click, sent to the in-ears.
Learned this from the famous engineer/producer who did our upcoming EP (Live sound engineer for Tool, Ministry, etc):
Build the click in protools using a repeated loop that captures the 4 or 8 bars that perfectly capture the groove you're after, from your demo recording of the original song.
Mute irrelevant instruments and EQ it for everyone's preferences.
In the case of cover songs, build the click track by recording your drummer playing along to the original in his headphones and save the best take.
WAY better than any standard click because everyone has agreed on the groove that's heard. It takes an above-average studio drummer to translate a cold and precise metronome into music that swings.
Playback can be done any number of ways--we use an iPhone plugged into a tiny Mackie mixer that drives our drummer's headphones or IEMs.
On the first song of the night that features an intro and keyboard parts, the other channel goes to a direct box-->FOH.
Airplane mode is very important because an incoming call will jack you.
Build the click in protools using a repeated loop that captures the 4 or 8 bars that perfectly capture the groove you're after, from your demo recording of the original song.
Mute irrelevant instruments and EQ it for everyone's preferences.
In the case of cover songs, build the click track by recording your drummer playing along to the original in his headphones and save the best take.
WAY better than any standard click because everyone has agreed on the groove that's heard. It takes an above-average studio drummer to translate a cold and precise metronome into music that swings.
Playback can be done any number of ways--we use an iPhone plugged into a tiny Mackie mixer that drives our drummer's headphones or IEMs.
On the first song of the night that features an intro and keyboard parts, the other channel goes to a direct box-->FOH.
Airplane mode is very important because an incoming call will jack you.
what we do with my band was learnt after we saw what Roger Waters does.
This was recorded out the monitoring console... and of course, the click and count ups are not listened by the audience. Just the musicians. All of them.
I put this song as an example cos it´s the one with the most extreme click they've made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpHydIp15wA
This was recorded out the monitoring console... and of course, the click and count ups are not listened by the audience. Just the musicians. All of them.
I put this song as an example cos it´s the one with the most extreme click they've made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpHydIp15wA
