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I agree, When I do PA gigs, it surprises me the number of
laptop composer/musicians who do not have multiple outs - sending drums, bass,
pads, leads, effects and everything to a PA and it is always the same mix no
matter what the venue acoustic. I think that to be able to at least seperate the
main sound areas for FOH mixing is the best solution.
I've had similar issues with keyboard players that just have a
stereo out and yet run bass, pad and lead sounds all running at volumes that I
have no control over at the desk - the audience don't know it's not the
engineer's fault!
Ian
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 6:46
PM
Subject: Re: Engineering Live
Loopers
As the sound engineer for a medium-sized club, I think I much prefer as
many individual outs as possible, just so I can also give them more
flexability for their monitor mix.
However, I say that because I get tired of the mundane 3-vocals and a
kick mic scenario and like the challenge.
As a looping musician though, I usually only get to send a stereo out.
Clint Allen
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Chris Sewell < lunamusic@mac.com>
wrote:
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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