I don't like the tuna on, but if the tuning goes off during the gig, then a quick check is a good thing, but I don't really want to know if one of the strings goes a little off - just if it bothers me. I was desperate for monitors until recently, when the house sound was good and we finally had a monitor - the mando sounded like a bag of tools being dumped on the floor and I couldn't hear the bass strings of the guitar enough to play happily, although apparently all was well on the audience side. I think a lot of this stuff comes from using electric rules for acoustic music, as the superb post about doing sound said a while ago.
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Topher Gayle <[email protected]> wrote: > Ideally, I like to have the tuner close to hand, but not on the headstock. > But if there isn't anywhere good to put it, I'll leave it on. This isn't for > prettiness. The things rattle. Now there are places where it's so noisy > you'll never hear the rattle. For examples: > > The pizza place. It can be so noisy there that without monitors I can't > hear myself, much less the fiddle player standing 6 feet away. > > Likewise at many contra dances, when the dancers are stomping (after the > beat, usually, thanks to the speed of sound) and the caller is calling, and > we're playing in a really echoic gym, monitors are the difference between > playing and not playing. > > When the sound is perfect and the audience attentive, yes I really want the > tuner off, if possible. That's not usual, for me. > > Topher > > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:48 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There was a time when I could tune all my instruments by ear, just pull an >> A out of the air and tune to that. Well, 4 years of riding in helicopters >> with no doors, 6 years as a Blacksmith and twenty years operating heavy >> equipment I don't hear the overtones anymore, I need my tuner, on the >> headstock, all the time, it's the lesser of two evils. >> >> Clyde Clevenger >> Just My Opinion, But It's Right >> Salem, Oregon >> Old Circle <http://www.myspace.com/oldcircle> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mike Hedding" <[email protected]> >> To: "Taterbugmando" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 10:02:05 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific >> Subject: Re: To stand, or not?? >> >> >> >> As I was recently seen in a compromising photo on the front page of a >> Wisconsin paper with my tuner on my headstock I feel the need to come >> out and say what's the big deal? >> >> For me it's not ideal I'll give you that but it's the lesser of two >> evils, to me it looks even more silly to be reaching in to my pocket >> and fiddling around after and many times during the middle of the >> songs. Granted, maybe I need to lighten my touch a little on the >> strings but hey I just want to be noticed I guess. >> >> Hopefully I'll just be able to tune by ear someday and everyone will >> be better off. >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" 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/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
