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Originally Posted by Saxguitar
The instrumentation in my praise band changes from week to week, there are four instrumentalist that are there every week: The praise team leader on Electric Piano, her son on the drum set(non electric), a bass player, and then me on sax and guitar.
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So you've got a rhythm section every week (drums, bass, piano). That's great. You can do a lot with that.
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Originally Posted by Saxguitar
The only monitors we have are one really old main speaker which cuts in and out and two floor monitors where the singers are supposed to hear what the band is playing but most of the time the band is turned down way to low.
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Has anyone looked to see why that speaker cuts out? Could be a simple mechanical or cabling issue.
Do you mean the stage volume is too low, or the audience volume? Your stage volume really shouldn't be very loud. Just loud enough for everyone to hear everyone they need to hear comfortably. Meaning less than 110 decibels
If you've got acoustic drums, which personally I think are ideal, then your drummer needs to be able to control their dynamics really well.
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Originally Posted by Saxguitar
I think our sound techs main problem is that they never really got trained right, when we have a problem with the levels in the service they call someone to come adjust them and it sonds good for about a month then it seems to drift back in to the old mix.
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Maybe the person they call in can provide some training for the sound techs? In order to be able to adjust anything effectively, the band needs to be playing anyway, so you might as well have one of your regular techs there to take in what's going on.