I don’t think half my bandmates would even remember the songs without some shrubbery, lol. I didn’t even think about gear-sharing, but for the love the Satan ASK WELL AHEAD OF THE SHOW DAY IF YOU NEED OR WANT TO USE SOMEONE ELSE’S STUFF. We played with some grind bands last summer and the day of...
TL;DR - what are some things you insist on doing/not doing when playing shows that you think are important?
I've been playing a few local-ish "fests" lately with 6-10 bands and I'm starting to think a lot of musicians are really just ignorant assholes all the time. There are few things that I...
We planned from the beginning to replace the kick anyways, but I think for the next round I want to have it in the room for parts where I want to blend more room mics and stuff. The next single has a more varied dynamic and mix.
Thank you! Honestly, next time I think we will. Drummer wanted to try something, and it worked marvelously (no boomy kick in the OH/rooms) but he’s tight enough with his feet that it wouldn’t have made much of difference. We knew we wanted to get the kick/bass locked in with minimal editing and...
Thoughts on the production?
Drums were recorded at a local studio with a killer mic selection and room. We didn’t track a live kick drum, but everything else in the recording is off the mic’s. Toms are enforced with samples of the actual toms from the tracking session. Guitars were recorded...
First tour was a disaster because everyone hired into the band could play the music except the guy who wrote the music, then it was a constant rotation of band members even when nothing was going on, then he wanted to be the singer (presumably because that would be easier than learning the...
I don't really think this was the main problem with the band being super inconsistent. Seemed to be just awful to work for/with even before the conspiracy nonsense. I don't think being terminally online is the root of the issue and lack of musical focus.
I've sold off all my "beater gear". But that's also probably why we don't play (or get invited to) many basement shows. I love playing them, I'll even bring the PA if needed, but around here once your name goes on a flyer at places with nice stages and big rooms you stop getting told about the...
On this we can agree. If I wasn't literally feeling compelled to do this on a daily (hourly, every thirty seconds I'm thinking about) basis, it would be the dealing with people unwilling to take accountability for, at the bare minimum, themselves and their responsibilities. I somehow ended up in...
$1800 Floorboard +$1200 guitar X 2 for redundancy, plus whatever speaker solution I'm using. Add in another $1400 for the IEM rack (probably closer to $2.5k, but depreciation). And yes, I'm bringing my IEM rack to play in a basement, lol. Talking $10k plus for accurate redundancy.
I don't NEED...
User error. I've heard just as many lost, mushy guitar tones out of tube stacks as I have DI modeler solutions.
I'm not bringing $6k in gear to a $5 show in a basement. That's just stupid. And straight up, I'd rather cancel than give someone a shit performance because I gotta play through Dirty...
This shit is why I talked my bandmates into IEMs like a decade ago. Sick of dealing with garbage PAs/monitors/rooms/soundguys and struggling to hear anything whether it was because we kept turning up to hear ourselves with no monitors, being forced to turn down because the sound guy is dipshit...