I've enjoyed in-ear monitors in noisy venues, there's been some times that floor wedges have worked OK (I agree that low volume monitors are best), and I've played a lot without monitors. I'm not too adamant about doing things any one way. I do like to get the tuner off the headstock when I remember to, but mine folds up pretty much out of sight. I hate when it's on while I'm playing, though.
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:25 PM, MinnesotaMandolin<[email protected]> wrote: > > Re: tuners---I don't mind seeing them on other's instruments, but I > broke my intellitouch when it flew off my headstock, off the stage, > onto the floor. I think I wore out the clip by keeping it on my mic > stand and so I kept it on the headstock. Whoops. > > I keep my monitors as minimal as possible, but I find I gotta have the > bass or it just don't work for me. In-ears: Ugh. I like Mike's 55-gal. > drum comparison, but I found it more like wearing a helmet or > something. Just hate not hearing the crowd. People will yell something > and I'd yell "what?" > > Listening to a Hartford show from '96, hard to believe there's no > monitors there. > > erik > > On Jul 7, 5:32 pm, [email protected] wrote: >> 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- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
