Some years ago, '96. or so, I saw Tater play with the Sullivans in Portland, Or. Lucky for me, I was in the center of the front row, I could hear the mandolin just fine. However, seems the monitors were so hot on the mandolin that Mike was staying two feet away from the mic, backing off and he still thought he was too loud. Well, nothing was coming out in the house from the mando, lot's of banjo and Sullivans, no Mike. The main reason I like a single mic and no monitors, takes the sound man out of the mix, more than half the time a good thing. I've learned how to EQ for a single mic and convince the sound man to leave it alone if he wants to live.
Clyde Clevenger Just My Opinion, But It's Right Salem, Oregon Old Circle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Gravina" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 2:02:59 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: To stand, or not?? 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 ----- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
