RE: Engineering Live Loopers

[darren perry <darrencperry@live.com>]

I have experienced this confusion actually. With any sound engineer I 
don't know I couldn't trust them with control over individual instruments 
mainly as it is just too confusing most of the time and too much to ask of 
them. However I worked with an engineer in rehearsals for a show and that 
helped a lot, especially in smaller venues where the engineer often has to 
do a lot to make anything sound right, having an engineer who knows your 
set is a bloody blessing!

Personally I was always sending the same instruments down the same tracks 
so it was quite manageable. Cutting my instruments down to just guitar and 
bass now though so will probably revert to a stereo out. My engineer is 
also now my drummer so that's screwed up my blessing of a situation!

Glad this topic sparked some interest!

Darren 

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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 11:08:23 -0700
From: travishartnett@gmail.com
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Engineering Live Loopers

I always send just a stereo mix, but I loop solo with just acoustic 
guitar.  Regardless, the soundguys used to get confused because of the 
lack of clear visual cues as to where the sound was coming from.  Plus, 
the house monitors were never anything approaching flat, and seemed to 
have been optimised to allow vocals to cut through a full band situation 
and allow everyone to hear the almighty kick drum, which made for a 
horrible acoustic guitar sound onstage.


I'd imagine that multiple outs from a laptop would also be confusing--how 
does he know what track the sound he's trying to cut/boost/eq is coming 
from?

TH

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Ian Popperwell <popperwell@iname.com> 
wrote:








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.



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