I had an epiphany last night after practice. My bassist thinks what we hear onstage when we play...and at practice, for that matter...should be this even, homogeneous blend just like he hears when he listens to music on his massive stereo system.
This all came about when we got into an argument about hiring a sound guy for our show this week. He wants to hire this dude, who is really just a friend of his who runs his own sound company but is very expensive and really isn't worth what he does. We can't afford him...it's not our show, so we don't have the liberty to hire the dude...he is so hit-and-miss on whether he does any good or not...he's all talk (I mentioned him in another thread recently, that he got thrown off his board and he says he has all this equipment stored all over town, etc)...and we can't afford him.
So I told him it would be a no-go. He got all pissy with me, saying "Fine, we'll just play with fuckin shit sound then like we always do. Fuck, whatever, I don't care then"...being really mature about it. Every time we play out, even when a production company was involved, the monitors have always sucked. It's also been an issue, regardless of who's running sound, that he (my bassist) has his fuckin bass up so loud that no monitoring will bring any amount of salvation to the stage mix.
He also got a little defensive earlier during practice when he asked me to turn up, and I came back with "maybe you should turn down some?". It wouldn't have helped, as my stack was facing away from him, so turning up to his liking would have just overwhelmed our drummer.
I must also add that he's over 40, and still thinks like a 16 year old...he still thinks all we need to do is get signed and he's never going to have to work again.
uke:
Anyways...after I had left, because I wasn't going to get into an argument about the shit, I realized he expects everything to sound perfectly blended and louder than kingdom fuck onstage. Anyone else have this problem in their group?
This all came about when we got into an argument about hiring a sound guy for our show this week. He wants to hire this dude, who is really just a friend of his who runs his own sound company but is very expensive and really isn't worth what he does. We can't afford him...it's not our show, so we don't have the liberty to hire the dude...he is so hit-and-miss on whether he does any good or not...he's all talk (I mentioned him in another thread recently, that he got thrown off his board and he says he has all this equipment stored all over town, etc)...and we can't afford him.
So I told him it would be a no-go. He got all pissy with me, saying "Fine, we'll just play with fuckin shit sound then like we always do. Fuck, whatever, I don't care then"...being really mature about it. Every time we play out, even when a production company was involved, the monitors have always sucked. It's also been an issue, regardless of who's running sound, that he (my bassist) has his fuckin bass up so loud that no monitoring will bring any amount of salvation to the stage mix.
He also got a little defensive earlier during practice when he asked me to turn up, and I came back with "maybe you should turn down some?". It wouldn't have helped, as my stack was facing away from him, so turning up to his liking would have just overwhelmed our drummer.
I must also add that he's over 40, and still thinks like a 16 year old...he still thinks all we need to do is get signed and he's never going to have to work again.
uke:Anyways...after I had left, because I wasn't going to get into an argument about the shit, I realized he expects everything to sound perfectly blended and louder than kingdom fuck onstage. Anyone else have this problem in their group?
