What doesn't kill you!
The view from stage did NOT look like this!My band had a profound experience tonight, for the first time since we started playing together about a year and a half ago we played a show that sucked!
As part of the "prestigious" annual Amman Theatre Festival, we were featured as the only musical act this year, we were given the main theatre and a time slot that is considered the "headlining" act of the day, what they somehow managed to forget though, was that a musical act requires an adequate sound system and a sound technician who knows slightly more about mixers than that if you push the level fader up the instrument becomes louder!
I’m not going to get into the details of what we had to do to get any kind of even remotely acceptable sound, all I’m going to say is that the mixer was placed in a booth above the theatre, the most interesting thing about this booth is that when you are in it you hear the instruments as if you are in another building, and since the sound man had absolutely no idea how to do anything I had to set up the sound, which meant that I had to listen to the instruments, then run up to the booth to make the desired adjustment to each instrument on its own, then come back down to make sure I made the right adjustments, which usually doesn’t work till you do it at least 4 to 5 times for each source of sound on stage, we had 12 sources of sound on stage including several microphones for the drums and percussion, end of story, by the time we agreed that what we had was probably the best we can possibly get out of the garbage equopment that we had I was so physically, emotionally and morally worn out that I needed a week of rest to recove, but I had to stand on stage and play an hour and a half show knowing that although the band is doing a very good job what the audience is hearing is not close to being as good!
Knowing me though, there’s always a silver lining, I am extremely proud of my band, anyone I know in similar conditions would have played terribly, but the guys proved to me and to themselves today that they are real pros and true musicians… WAY TO GO SIGN OF THYME! :-D
As part of the "prestigious" annual Amman Theatre Festival, we were featured as the only musical act this year, we were given the main theatre and a time slot that is considered the "headlining" act of the day, what they somehow managed to forget though, was that a musical act requires an adequate sound system and a sound technician who knows slightly more about mixers than that if you push the level fader up the instrument becomes louder!
I’m not going to get into the details of what we had to do to get any kind of even remotely acceptable sound, all I’m going to say is that the mixer was placed in a booth above the theatre, the most interesting thing about this booth is that when you are in it you hear the instruments as if you are in another building, and since the sound man had absolutely no idea how to do anything I had to set up the sound, which meant that I had to listen to the instruments, then run up to the booth to make the desired adjustment to each instrument on its own, then come back down to make sure I made the right adjustments, which usually doesn’t work till you do it at least 4 to 5 times for each source of sound on stage, we had 12 sources of sound on stage including several microphones for the drums and percussion, end of story, by the time we agreed that what we had was probably the best we can possibly get out of the garbage equopment that we had I was so physically, emotionally and morally worn out that I needed a week of rest to recove, but I had to stand on stage and play an hour and a half show knowing that although the band is doing a very good job what the audience is hearing is not close to being as good!
Knowing me though, there’s always a silver lining, I am extremely proud of my band, anyone I know in similar conditions would have played terribly, but the guys proved to me and to themselves today that they are real pros and true musicians… WAY TO GO SIGN OF THYME! :-D
posted by boog3ee @ 6:23 PM
1 Comments:
and as an official Groupie am also proud of the band:) u always do a good job kids.. and boog3ee dont be so harsh on yourself you are an A class Musician!
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