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Mr. Luddite

On 2/4/2016 11:23 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 09:16:13 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

He was pretty dismayed when I started losing interest in the trumpet in
favor of the guitar but I don't think he fully realized that in the
early to mid 60's girls weren't very interested in trumpet players.

I was never a musician but I did dabble in setting up the sound
equipment. I got away from it when I joined the CG and got back into
it a little later in life when my nephew had his garage band but I
quickly turned that duty over to him. I was too old to be a "roadie".

I've done the "sound" many times both at the performance venue I had and
for local bands who have asked. Still do occasionally. Done it in halls,
churches and full blown performance venues in Plymouth. The problem
with it is that every performer has a certain sound that they want and
they can be very demanding if they don't hear it. It's not so bad when
a single band is doing a concert and you get everything dialed in at the
sound checks. But when you have many people performing in an evening
they are constantly requesting more lows, less lows, more on the
monitors, less on the monitors, "can't hear myself", etc. Half the time
I'll give a thumbs up without changing a thing and they'd say, "much
better".

The setup we had in the guitar shop was great for guitar sales though.
It was a large shop with a big stage, complete with lights, sound
system, etc. I had the mixing board way back in the rear along with
some digital recording gear. If someone came in looking at guitars and
they seemed right on the edge of buying it, I'd invite them to try it
out on the stage to see how it would sound. I'd record them while they
tried it out. When they stopped and came down
from the stage I'd play back the recording as they walked over to me.
Worked just about every time. They pulled out the credit card and
bought the guitar.

Here's one of the many concerts we had featuring local bands.
The audio from this one was taken from a stereo microphone up
on the ceiling rather than from the line out on the mixing board.
I was using the line out to feed a computer that was sending live,
streaming audio to a website on the Internet. People could go to
the site and listen to the concert.

This is a very good local blues band. If you like this stuff, check out
the lead guitarist's solo starting at about 2:50.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQluTXiJaF4