Death to... test what you think you know

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Adam Black said:
I didn't know Grant was buried in Vegas. Huh, ya learn something everyday. :twisted:
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The capitol of Nevada is Carson City. There is an episode of Dragnet in which Sgt. Friday trips up a bad guy with that question.

With a correct answer rate of 50%, you can be a lampie, Adam. :-)
 
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Jay Barracato said:
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One such system I encountered. The top photo shows 15 band Geqs in series with compressors inserted on channels. The second photo shows the house Geq on top and monitors on the bottom. Rather than being zeroed, there were similar cuts on the board for all the channels as well.

This is reality. You have 1 hour to get everything out of the van, set up on stage, and checked before the show starts. All the channels are preset, and apparently from the grunge around the knobs never change, for a 5 piece rock band. You are being helped by the third string house engineer, because the head guy didn't think it was important to be there when the band was bringing their own tech. The third string house tech doesn't seem to know anything about how the system is configured except what mics plug into the snake where. He is also not sure you should change anything because the head tech really likes how the channel is set for a strat through a twin and shouldn't that be ok for your mandolin through a LDC.

So where do you start?

(This is an extreme case, but this is a fairly well known room on the east coast circuit in the under 300 capacity that books original music nightly.)
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Seeing these pics brings back the recurring nightmare of dealing with sound dudes from hell as a band member and me just wanting to hear my vocal mic loud out front. Sometimes we get lucky and they allow me to run sound from the stage. In the small and medium rooms I would much rather set-it-and-forget-it than have some goober driving it like they stole it up and down and round and round with squealing howling and vocal level that won't stay put.

Somebody mentioned discretely hitting bypass - I agree - it's the quickest easiest way to deal with it. It's amazing how much more sound comes out when you don't have all the sliders pulled down huh?!

A little further down the PA gene pool chain is the small powered Macky-Yamish bread box with every slider pulled down and the stick speakers sounding awful.
 
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From the ankle biter's point of view:

I have no idea why many of the people I encounter in clubs such as those are sound guys. These people seem to be random dudes hired without question by the club owners, who many times do not know enough about what they need from a sound guy to hire the right personnel. For others of us who have a general idea what we are doing, this flood of less than helpful people makes it extremely difficult to get value out of what we offer or be hired, and then move on if we can- meaning that the better techs don't stay and the club sound market produces GEQ madness such as that (not to mention it seems that NOBODY knows what a parametric EQ does anymore) along with numerous other insane-type settings.

On another note: why didn't I know the capitol of Nevada was Carson City?! Guess I'll have to go back to being a lampie. People seem to get away with more there anyway.
 
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