Re: Advice for dealing with singers who wander out in front of the PA
Everyone (well, most...) has given you good advice. This is triage, not corrective surgery. The idea is to get through their show, shenanigans and all (except for damaging or destroying gear). Being a musician back in the 80s that dealt with a few pricks claiming to be sound guys and taking their bad day out on the players, I try to be as lenient as possible with players to avoid wrecking whatever creative hubris they may be relying to perform (a loose description at best but nonetheless...
)). If they are doing something that wrecks the production for everyone, then I'll approach them with a Plan B.
The big concern I have was your use of a gate on the performer's vocal channel. Why, pray tell, do you find this necessary?
And in the end, if you and/or her get bit from a little feedback (because you were watching carefully and doing your best, but she still managed to get in a bad spot), it won't be fatal. Just try harder next time. There's far worse things that can happen under these circumstances.
Geri O
