Re; sound engineers. I generaly try to get in the habit of always thanking them, even when playing acoustic, sureal I know but it means you never forget, very easy to do when you are on a festival bill with another act hot on your heels. One trick I learnt a few years ago as a support act was to ask the sound company for a business card on the pretext that I could be looking to hire them sometime in the future. This technique ensured that as a support act you didn't end up with an inferior sound to the headliners.
Philip G Martin aka Drohne www.drohne.co.uk --- On Mon, 10/8/09, Jane Ruckert <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jane Ruckert <[email protected]> Subject: [HG-new] Re: Amplification To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 10 August, 2009, 10:01 PM My standard practise is to thank them to the audience, get them a round of applause and give them one of my cds. At festivals in Australia they do a report to the organisers for each performance and a little recognition can go a very long way, as well as being the right thing to do. Jane Ruckert www.gurdygirl.com www.myspace.com/gurdygirl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cali and Alden Hackmann" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 12:21 AM Subject: [HG-new] Amplification > > > The issues of amplification are difficult ones. As Augusto said, often > sound > reinforcement is used to help to balance the sounds of the instruments. > The > difficulty is that many sound people are either young and inexperienced > (meaning that they like it loud, and think everyone else does also) or > older > and experienced (meaning that they've been doing it long enough to incur > hearing loss). > > Good sound people are hard to find, and rarely get paid or appreciated as > they > (we) should. Sound reinforcement is something that the audience doesn't > really notice when it's done right, but complains about when it's done > wrong. > When was the last time you tipped the sound person at a small show to > thank > them for doing a good job? ;-) > > Alden > > Cali and Alden Hackmann > Olympic Musical Instruments - hurdy-gurdies > A & C Embroidery - boutique embroidery > Bois de Mallorne - audio production > stained glass, laser art > > "I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else." > > - Winston Churchill > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
