Heading to Oulu Hevimesta in 10 minutes to mix Whispered tonight

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Anssi Tenhunen
Just wanted you to know, if some of you guys are around there. Whispered is this samurai metal band (think oldschool Children of Bodom meets japanese instruments). The tickets are something like 3€, so shouldn't break the bank.



 
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Very cool band! I like :rock: Where can I buy this album? Can't find it on amazon. (EDIT: Never mind, checked their myspace :P) I love the artwork with its purplish vibes and the snyths sounds fantastic.

Good luck on your gig man, hope all goes smoothly. :kickass:
 
The gig went well, but as some of you guys might know, mixing from an enclosed dark dj-booth about 3-4 ft above the ground with no direct visual or aural connection between the audience (or actually, even the stage!) is not the most optimal place to mix. And to make the situation better, vocals and drums were only thing that were miced, otherwise the band had everything as line inputs (bass, keys, backingtracks, kick trigger and guitars; guitars were wireless reciever, engl preamp + behringer cabinet modeller and bass was this like sansamp thing), so they didn't use any cabinets, and the subwoofers of the house PA weren't in phase with eachother, so half of the audience didn't hear anything below 200hz. Nice rigging mate. But I had a nice lowend build up on the booth. And the mixer looked like an ashtray.

But I did what I could and atleast everything from 500hz up sounded pretty nice and clear, atleast in my opinion. But lets say that the low stage volume, own microphones on drums (e901 and e604's) and the SPL preamp on lead vocals saved a lot of the situation.

That place could be made really easily into a lot more professional place with like a lot less than 300€ investment
 
But in case someone wondered, I was left a positive mind about the place and the staff was very cool. If they fix the subwoofer problem and possibly move the mixer to somewhat better place, I'd be happy to go back there. an additional bonus would be to add some acousto-slabs to dampen the concretecave
 
+1 to all you said Anssi. In the words of our soundguy: "Ihan paska"*. But despite all that.. it was a great place to play.
Plus our bass player got so wasted, we had to carry him back to the hotel! :lol:

* translation: pure shit.