backing tracks live

[JeffTD]

i prefer if everyone plays to click.

Do you also have the money it takes to get an in-ear feed for the entire band running?

 

[Trevoire520]

What Jeff said. Click track in everyone's monitors is going to get loud to the point that the audience can hear it.

 

[Seth Munson]

Haha I love going to shows and hearing the click track in the monitors.
makes the show a lot of fun and lol tastic

 

[OneDaySky]

Haha I love going to shows and hearing the click track in the monitors.
makes the show a lot of fun and lol tastic

HAHA

 

[Vinny]

Haha I love going to shows and hearing the click track in the monitors.
makes the show a lot of fun and lol tastic

Reminds me of that one concert on the Whitechapel tour with Impending Doom, Miss May I, Oceano, and I Declare War, where they had an online live feed of the show, and during Miss May I's performance you could hear the click and all that jazz. But what made it even greater is that they only used a click on the songs that had samples (which was about 1/3 of the songs.) And even at one point they were playing the actual studio version of one of the songs in the background for whatever reason (I'm positive that the soundguy had the Monitor feed hooked up to the online live audio, instead of the audience feed like he should have.) It was hilarious. And even greater because MMI was the only one that got screwed over . All the other bands sounded completely fine (not bashing on MMI at all, They are a great band)

 

[OneDaySky]

Reminds me of that one concert on the Whitechapel tour with Impending Doom, Miss May I, Oceano, and I Declare War, where they had an online live feed of the show, and during Miss May I's performance you could hear the click and all that jazz. But what made it even greater is that they only used a click on the songs that had samples (which was about 1/3 of the songs.) And even at one point they were playing the actual studio version of one of the songs in the background for whatever reason (I'm positive that the soundguy had the Monitor feed hooked up to the online live audio, instead of the audience feed like he should have.) It was hilarious. And even greater because MMI was the only one that got screwed over . All the other bands sounded completely fine (not bashing on MMI at all, They are a great band)

Woah that's hectic. Shame, yeah that sucks when a engineer makes a mistake like that, most audiences are ignorant to the whole click track thing so they would blame or knock the band by default.

 

[mstone564]

I didn't want to create a new thread to ask this, so sorry for the bump in advance!

For all the ones doing the ole mp3 player (ipods and phones in our case), y cable split audio, left channel > click track for drummer right channel > backing tracks for mixer... How do you compensate volume on this?

When you're making the backing track in your DAW, where is your click/guitar/whatever for the drummer to play along to peaking at and where is your backing track with leads, vox, effects, ect. peaking?

 

[outbreak525]

^ Good question.
I would assume at the same level, for instance -8rms.

 

[OneDaySky]

I just export my backtracks with all the vocals, guitars, bass and drums muted. Same master buss as on the EP. Then make click track, take it to practice and drummer says too soft, then make it louder and reexport. Thats how I did it

 

[tempe]

I just use a limiter in dual mono on the 2-bus. You generally want to leave a little bit of headroom on the channel that's going to FOH and have the click fucking slammed for the drummer.

 

[mstone564]

I just use a limiter in dual mono on the 2-bus. You generally want to leave a little bit of headroom on the channel that's going to FOH and have the click fucking slammed for the drummer.

That's pretty much what I was gonna do, leave the backing tracks peaking around -12 to -6 and have the click cranked.

What limiter did you use might I ask for dual mono?

Oh and my drummer recently bought one of these http://www.musiciansfriend.com/drums-percussion/alesis-performancepad-pro-electronic-drum-pad
Would we be able to incorporate this as something to replace the old: iPod > y cable (for drummer/di box to pa) route?

 

[tempe]

I just used old mate L1

Also that Alesis unit is more of a sampler which would be useful for triggering things like bass drops, not necessarily an entire songs worth of playback.