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Backline
Consultant
I am a guitar player myself as well as a sound
engineer,
and started
playing gigs with bands at the age of 16, so I have extensive
experience of life on both sides of the mixing desk. As an engineer I
have experienced the dramatic difference between a young novice band
with poorly set up equipment, and experienced musicians with decent
backline: the former takes hard work to sound barely acceptable, while
the latter just seems to mix itself... and as a musician I have
experienced the dramatic improvement in audience response that comes
from sorting out your sound so they can actually hear what you are
doing!
It is tempting to attribute that entirely to a bigger budget for
expensive equipment, but that is only half the story: there are many
affordable ways to improve your sound, and some of these can be as
simple as tilting back your guitar amp, or raising it up on a stand.
The service I offer is: I will come to your rehearsal room with a
simple recording setup, and position a mic or two to record the room.
You play your songs, then we listen back and talk about which parts
come across well and which are getting obscured, and discuss ways to
improve them... this might mean tweaking guitar amp settings or synth
patches, or programming a Pod, or tuning drums differently etc. Then we
record again and compare.
You may be suprised at how big a difference this process can make to
your live sound. It doesn't matter what level of gig you are playing...
obviously if its a small pub gig with just a vocal PA, then your
backline is all they are listening to anyway, but even a large stage
with 24 mics on the band will sound better if the basic sound coming
from the amps and the drums is good to begin with.
Get
in touch if you are
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