Larry
"Uncle Larry"
OMG I participated in the annual Paoli Blues Festival last weekend....Bands played on 3 different stages about a block or so apart.
We were on one of the secondary stages. My guy Zig asked a "soundman" friend of his to run sound. Now the guy has a PA, mics, etc. but is CLUELESS what he's doing, or what good sound consists of and doesn't consist of. The vocals sounded like they were sung through a guitar amp. The Subs were completely still. (No kick drum, I miced for nothing) No drums in the PA, awful sounding vocals, with the vocal level below that of the general instrument level.
It was really pitiful. He ruined the sound for hundreds of people. The main stage was plauged with the same issues I found out later. The regular sound guy had a problem, and a different person stepped in to run it. She ruined the sound for thousands of people.
The only stage with a good sound was one where the band brought their own PA and ran it from the stage.
I just hate practicing, changing heads, tuning them up to perfection, micing up, and playing my heart out only to have it mostly negated by an incompetent soundguy. Never again will I let that guy come within 10 feet of our PA. Rant not even close to being over.
We were on one of the secondary stages. My guy Zig asked a "soundman" friend of his to run sound. Now the guy has a PA, mics, etc. but is CLUELESS what he's doing, or what good sound consists of and doesn't consist of. The vocals sounded like they were sung through a guitar amp. The Subs were completely still. (No kick drum, I miced for nothing) No drums in the PA, awful sounding vocals, with the vocal level below that of the general instrument level.
It was really pitiful. He ruined the sound for hundreds of people. The main stage was plauged with the same issues I found out later. The regular sound guy had a problem, and a different person stepped in to run it. She ruined the sound for thousands of people.
The only stage with a good sound was one where the band brought their own PA and ran it from the stage.
I just hate practicing, changing heads, tuning them up to perfection, micing up, and playing my heart out only to have it mostly negated by an incompetent soundguy. Never again will I let that guy come within 10 feet of our PA. Rant not even close to being over.