The Mint in Los Angeles - Any thoughts/tips?

Re: The Mint in Los Angeles - Any thoughts/tips?

They've got a system that works, and sounds ok for the space. The mixing booth is a bass node, so if your guy is doing the mixing, let him know.... its way more muddy and bassy in the house than it is at his position, so he'll need to shoot for a much more clean sound with vocals more on top of the mix than he'd normally want. Once you realize that, and realize you need to walk the house to really know, it's all good.

If you're using house guys, I don't know who's running the house these days, so I have no good info for you.
 
Re: The Mint in Los Angeles - Any thoughts/tips?

Jim - thanks and good to know - appreciate the reply.

Since it's a Battle of the Bands, we're just participating as one of the bands, so guessing it will be the house crew. Backline will be provided, so should be easy, although may ask if they'd want to use my Fender Tremolux for all the bands, but we'll probably get Twin Reverbs (thank goodness for pedals). Hard to kill one of those.
 
Re: The Mint in Los Angeles - Any thoughts/tips?

Show is 4 bands, 20 minutes each (with timer), 10 minute changeover between bands. Common back line; they're providing so it's just snare, pedalboards, etc.

It's one thing we've gotten good at - with a pedalboard, can keep the volume of a Twin Reverb low so that we self balance. We've found putting our other guitarist's amp on a road case up by his ears works wonders.

Kip & Jim - with stage volume in check, how are the monitors? We have 3 female singers along with keyboard, 2 guitars, bass and drums.
 
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