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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eric Cagle" data-source="post: 80366" data-attributes="member: 277">Re: Mixing side of stage. How DO you deal with it?Actually the gig was really smooth after we sound checked the first 2 bands. We used hand signals during the check but we figured out real quick that was not going to work during the show so we went to the cell phones. When I was mixing I walked around front a few times and was surprised it sounded as good as it did. If you think about it, if you are gained in and equalized correctly most of the faders fall almost in a straight line a few db below unity. That has at least been my experience. I have to mention all 3 of us who were engineering had worked together at that particular club for the last few years. Also all of the bands were hand picked by us and we had each mixed most of them several times before this show. It was all southern rock and country for the most part so not really a big deal. I was actually chief engineer at that time for the company who supplied the rig for the show and knew it to the point of actually setting much of the gain and EQ before we even ran a line check. Other than a guitar or keyboard up or down a little most of the bands were good to go from the last act. Some of the backline was the same which helped. We did not sound check between bands we just muted one stage inputs and unmuted the other stage and went for it. It was about a 1-2 minute change over including the announcer whose wireless mic was always hot and ready to go when he turned it on. We were all young and dumb and it never occurred to us there would be any problems so there were not any. Headphones, cellphones, and good musicians and singers did the trick. Probably the good players part was most of it.</blockquote>

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