Jankowske
Senior Member
Share your sound guy stories! Good or bad...probably mostly bad. Best? Worst? Adequate-to-incompetent ratio? (I'm guessing 1:4)
I'll start with a kind-of funny one. At this one gig, I couldn't help but notice the bass drum "tone" of the bands before us. Like, put a microphone in a tomato, smash the tomato with a sledgehammer, and then record it to 8-bit. At some point during set-up, soundperson says "Cipher Six...you only have fiveminutes left to set up." That's cute; you didn't have to say it like a d-bag that doesn't believe in our set-up ability. He also added "I'll be there to mic you up when the drummer is ready." Bastard. I said CHALLENGE ACCEPTED because I have had way too much practice tearing down and assembling my kit, and a whopping two minutes later I went from bass drum to ready, no joke. I sat there for maybe another six minutes idly twirling sticks and laying down some christmas funk with the bassist, waiting for Mr. YourSetStartsThreeMinutesAgo. Some guy finally shows up and looks all mad at my beautiful full reso, until I point out my XLR out.
"What's in there?"
"Sennheiser e602"
"Oh! Sennheiser? Okay!"
After the set I ask the same guy how he liked my 2-minute set-up; he says he didn't see it and that the sound guy was in the bathroom or something, so I guess this guy was some helper-engineer person. I was hoping that maybe my mic would have made my kick better than the last bands', until I see the same mic on a stand on the side of the stage.
"Hey, that's the same mic I have in my kick."
"Oh, really?! I noticed that I didn't have to adjust anything on my rig..."
The band assured me that my kick was "pounding" and "not like the others." Whatever.
I'll start with a kind-of funny one. At this one gig, I couldn't help but notice the bass drum "tone" of the bands before us. Like, put a microphone in a tomato, smash the tomato with a sledgehammer, and then record it to 8-bit. At some point during set-up, soundperson says "Cipher Six...you only have fiveminutes left to set up." That's cute; you didn't have to say it like a d-bag that doesn't believe in our set-up ability. He also added "I'll be there to mic you up when the drummer is ready." Bastard. I said CHALLENGE ACCEPTED because I have had way too much practice tearing down and assembling my kit, and a whopping two minutes later I went from bass drum to ready, no joke. I sat there for maybe another six minutes idly twirling sticks and laying down some christmas funk with the bassist, waiting for Mr. YourSetStartsThreeMinutesAgo. Some guy finally shows up and looks all mad at my beautiful full reso, until I point out my XLR out.
"What's in there?"
"Sennheiser e602"
"Oh! Sennheiser? Okay!"
After the set I ask the same guy how he liked my 2-minute set-up; he says he didn't see it and that the sound guy was in the bathroom or something, so I guess this guy was some helper-engineer person. I was hoping that maybe my mic would have made my kick better than the last bands', until I see the same mic on a stand on the side of the stage.
"Hey, that's the same mic I have in my kick."
"Oh, really?! I noticed that I didn't have to adjust anything on my rig..."
The band assured me that my kick was "pounding" and "not like the others." Whatever.