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zoppotrump · June 12th, 2009, 08:14 AM

last weekend we played germanys biggest country music festival and it was great on one side and a mess on the other.
the total weekend was perfect, lots of nice fellow musicians and people, great big audience ( every day around 5-6000 people ) and the weather fitted in.
the bad thing was, that the sound company had installed a new digital mixing console for public and stage monitoring...
as we had a very sharp stage-changing schedule in between the different bands of only 20 minutes, so everyone had to do the whole soundcheck all before the days show started.
and guess what happened - some freaking i***t erased all the saved soundcheck settings of the whole day, we were scheduled to perform.
and it´s a well known szenario, that things mostly get worse, when you try to ajust or repair things in a ultra -hurry !!
so these "specialists" tried to ajust the sound on stage and to the public adress during the sets !!!
that meant, f.e. that after 2 songs, your voice was totally off your monitor, whilst the drummer was screaming, that his ears got destroyed by the female singers voice so much too loud.
people in the audience told us, that for 2 songs, no singer or background could be heard at all, it was weird watching us sing and only see the lip movements, and so on....
we had a 2 hour set to go and only the last 40 minutes were so, we could say, it was ok.
the bands before and after us had the same experiences and from time to time, the let shreeking feedback wake up the whole audience.
the manager of the festival was freaking mad and cancelled the contract for the PA company for the next events the same day.
we had a fun weekend and sure needed a few shots and beers backstage to calmdown...

zoppotrump
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June 12th, 2009, 08:14 AM	#170 (permalink)
zoppotrump Tele-Holic Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: nuernberg, germany Posts: 588 34 Photos	last weekend we played germanys biggest country music festival and it was great on one side and a mess on the other. the total weekend was perfect, lots of nice fellow musicians and people, great big audience ( every day around 5-6000 people ) and the weather fitted in. the bad thing was, that the sound company had installed a new digital mixing console for public and stage monitoring... as we had a very sharp stage-changing schedule in between the different bands of only 20 minutes, so everyone had to do the whole soundcheck all before the days show started. and guess what happened - some freaking i***t erased all the saved soundcheck settings of the whole day, we were scheduled to perform. and it´s a well known szenario, that things mostly get worse, when you try to ajust or repair things in a ultra -hurry !! so these "specialists" tried to ajust the sound on stage and to the public adress during the sets !!! that meant, f.e. that after 2 songs, your voice was totally off your monitor, whilst the drummer was screaming, that his ears got destroyed by the female singers voice so much too loud. people in the audience told us, that for 2 songs, no singer or background could be heard at all, it was weird watching us sing and only see the lip movements, and so on.... we had a 2 hour set to go and only the last 40 minutes were so, we could say, it was ok. the bands before and after us had the same experiences and from time to time, the let shreeking feedback wake up the whole audience. the manager of the festival was freaking mad and cancelled the contract for the PA company for the next events the same day. we had a fun weekend and sure needed a few shots and beers backstage to calmdown... zoppotrump :O) __________________ zoppotrump :O) _______________________ may the twang be with you !