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Re: Engineering Live Loopers

Stereo outs too the FOH engineer. Slipping him a $10 tip never hurts  
either.
On Apr 7, 2008, at 1:16 PM, darren perry wrote:

>
> I'm a front of house sound engineer as well as using live looping  
> in my own music. I've engineered live loopers before and wondered  
> how people set up their outputs to the sound engineer, if you're  
> lucky enough to have one at your gigs. Trying to engineer a stereo  
> feed from a computer or looping device can be quite frustrating. I  
> went through a stage (as I was playing and looping multiple  
> instruments) of sending each instrument separately to the engineer,  
> easy as I use Ableton. I felt that I couldn't mix the sound well  
> enough from the stage to give a good sound to the audience so left  
> the engineer to do what he was there for and sort that out for me.
>
> Basically, do most people rely on sending a stereo output to the  
> front of house sound desk? DO you mix your tracks live? Does anyone  
> else send multiple outputs to give the engineer something to work  
> with?
>
> I'm looking into this as another small part to my research paper on  
> Looping Technology and Live Looping.
>
> Thanks
>
> Darren
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