level of Solo boost on bar gigs

[d1469d]

DO NOT COUNT ON THE SOUND GUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHANCES ARE HE WILL BE MORE INTERESTED IN THE VAGINA HANGING OUT THAN YOUR BAND.




Good times with the volume wars!!!!! If you know the guys in the band well,it's time for a man to man talk. A good thing to do is get a level check before practice to where everything is close to even volume and adjust your lead boost over that. Ask the drummer if he can hear your leads good. If he can,you are probably in the ball park. Usually a volume war result from an over abundance of testosterone or beer or having to much of the vagina or lack of vagina. Regardless,this volume wars usually results in a band fight or some kind of attitude from a band member. In the band I am in we went through this and the guitar player said he does not have a lead boost and that is why he likes playing a bit louder. I set up a program on my effects so when he goes to a lead my volume will actually drop about four decibels which did the trick. I have been in a band with this guy for over ten years.

The main goal is too have your band sound good and that takes a lot of effort of all the band members.
Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Anonymous]

turn your boost up to the point of UNBEARABLE and point your cabs RIGHT AT HIM.

during all other non solo music, turn WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY DOWN so your singer complains that he cant hear you.

MAKE your point.

or just quit. or just keep dealing with it. lol.

there's all kinds of ways.

walk over and turn his fuckin amp down.


im of the school that i should JUUUUST be heard, and then down a hair. if i need to come up, then i can. during verses and mellower parts, i always knocked my gain back with a pre-amp volume pedal, that way it opens the verses more for the song to breathe and kick in more during the parts that need to. i used a boost patch but no volume boost, just a different eq curve that brought me out front a bit more midwise. never had any issues with soundmen and rarely with my bandmates saying i was loud, if ever. i usually got told to turn up a hair. i'd rather have that than deal with being overbearing, gain on 10 all the time, staring straight ahead narcissistic ignorance that seems to exude off SOOO many guitar players.

i was once in a 2 guitar band that sounds like a very similiar situation to yours. dude had NO dynamics, NO sense of song structure regarding guitar parts, and NO idea about volume/gain ratio and how to eq to stick out instead of FULL BLAST.
it never did iron out, until our bassist bailed and he got moved to bass.

it's a fine line. dealing with egos, attitudes, etc....and if you're the newer guy, then who the fuck are YOU to tell HIM... know what i mean?

delicate measures. or, bull in a china shop. both can work, you just gotta figure out when and where.

 

[crankyrayhanky]

Well, the gig went fairly well. The sound guy was a veteran sound guy of 35 years who has worked on major tours and had awesome stories to tell, including MC Hammer in his prime- 10 backup vocalists on that gig There were 2 guys who attentive at the board and on the stage and seemed to take great pride in their job. Total opposite of many of my Philadelphia bar/club experiences.

The Kemper kicked all kinds of ass, the moderate solo boost worked for me on stage, not sure what it was like out in the crowd but the feedback was positive...now I have to work on getting our massive practice levels down to something normal so we can improve our vocals/backup vocals.