Monday, May 21, 2007
Phew.
We just played our second show as the Cowboy Mimes! It was a good experience, but I felt a little off with my playing. I think the problem was that I could hardly hear myself, because we couldn't figure out how to properly wire up the monitor speakers so that they were at the right levels. The sound equipment they had there was very, very confusing, and there was nobody there with any technical audio experience to tell us how to use it. We managed to get a decent enough sound out of the main speakers, but the monitors were really quiet, and I could hardly tell what notes I was playing sometimes. It makes you feel a lot more nervous about playing chords if you can't tell if they're right or not! That's why we need an experienced audio professional (like my dad!) to get everything sounding right. That or someone who's paid by the club to do that sort of thing. (Supposedly there's a sound guy who will help us set up at the Supermarket, where we're playing our next gig on June 6.)
I was prepared to sing at this one, but we only have 2 stage microphones, and I believe it's not wise to use recording mikes (of which we have 2) for performance purposes. Chris thought the Concord would have provided a couple mikes, but I guess they're not quite upscale enough. We got by anyway.
The turnout was a little disappointing; for some reason I thought the place was going to be packed with friends. Plus one always hopes that people who weren't explicitly invited would find their way to the show through word of mouth, MySpace or Facebook. But I probably would have felt even weirder about my uncertain playing if there'd been more people listening to it. I think we did end the show pretty well with Calico Chromium, a song that Meta and Chris wrote together. We should record that one soon and get it up on MySpace.
We just played our second show as the Cowboy Mimes! It was a good experience, but I felt a little off with my playing. I think the problem was that I could hardly hear myself, because we couldn't figure out how to properly wire up the monitor speakers so that they were at the right levels. The sound equipment they had there was very, very confusing, and there was nobody there with any technical audio experience to tell us how to use it. We managed to get a decent enough sound out of the main speakers, but the monitors were really quiet, and I could hardly tell what notes I was playing sometimes. It makes you feel a lot more nervous about playing chords if you can't tell if they're right or not! That's why we need an experienced audio professional (like my dad!) to get everything sounding right. That or someone who's paid by the club to do that sort of thing. (Supposedly there's a sound guy who will help us set up at the Supermarket, where we're playing our next gig on June 6.)
I was prepared to sing at this one, but we only have 2 stage microphones, and I believe it's not wise to use recording mikes (of which we have 2) for performance purposes. Chris thought the Concord would have provided a couple mikes, but I guess they're not quite upscale enough. We got by anyway.
The turnout was a little disappointing; for some reason I thought the place was going to be packed with friends. Plus one always hopes that people who weren't explicitly invited would find their way to the show through word of mouth, MySpace or Facebook. But I probably would have felt even weirder about my uncertain playing if there'd been more people listening to it. I think we did end the show pretty well with Calico Chromium, a song that Meta and Chris wrote together. We should record that one soon and get it up on MySpace.
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