solacematt
New Member
So Saturday my band played our first show in quite some time with our new drummer. We're a little over halfway through recording our third disc right now (which is sounding amazing) and have been wanting to get back out for a while. So we played this decent sized place Saturday night. Went on an hour late (when does any band ever actually get to play on time), got our stuff set on stage in under ten minutes and the sound guy went on to mic the drums, bass rig, my amp and set levels. 10 minutes later we went on.
First two songs went well. Halfway through the third song a different guy comes up and actually turns down my bass player's amp and my amp , moves my mic stand and the monitor in front of me, and steps on the EHX POG pedal on my board. This guy it turns out is the head sound guy and the one who set us up was new to the venue. After this apparently no one could hear my vocals anymore and the sound wasn't as balanced. Turns out the vocals were now only coming through my monitor so I had no idea no one else could hear them.
After the show a lot of people came up to us and told us about the dropout of vocals after that sound guy came on to the stage and said how rude it was of him to try and talk to us WHILE we were playing. Very unprofessional. We did get a lot of compliments of how great the songs sounded and couldn't believe how full we sounded for a 3-piece, so that was different. Needless to say, not sure I would want to play this venue again. At least not with that sound guy in the vicinity. I'm not alone in thinking that it was very unprofessional to move a singers mic while they are singing, step on one of their pedals, touching the amp, and moving the monitor right?
First two songs went well. Halfway through the third song a different guy comes up and actually turns down my bass player's amp and my amp , moves my mic stand and the monitor in front of me, and steps on the EHX POG pedal on my board. This guy it turns out is the head sound guy and the one who set us up was new to the venue. After this apparently no one could hear my vocals anymore and the sound wasn't as balanced. Turns out the vocals were now only coming through my monitor so I had no idea no one else could hear them.
After the show a lot of people came up to us and told us about the dropout of vocals after that sound guy came on to the stage and said how rude it was of him to try and talk to us WHILE we were playing. Very unprofessional. We did get a lot of compliments of how great the songs sounded and couldn't believe how full we sounded for a 3-piece, so that was different. Needless to say, not sure I would want to play this venue again. At least not with that sound guy in the vicinity. I'm not alone in thinking that it was very unprofessional to move a singers mic while they are singing, step on one of their pedals, touching the amp, and moving the monitor right?
Those last songs I had to scream practically too :/
