Live tips
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-Gavin-
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Still do, it's a.... fuck gotta find it...
Samson CR77
Only time i didn't use it after Turisas tour was pretty much when i forgot to rebattery it and discovered at soundcheck for a metal hammer awards televised gig
!I regularly went into the crowd and jammed from the moshpit at alestorm gigs and the wireless signal took me one to the dressing room of a venue with no degredation of signal... I was dicking about in the dressing room after the gig and didn't realise the amp was on
!Great unity and pretty cheap!
Edit, i use the one with the Angle jack for my Rhoads.
We played a show with the Haunted back in '05 right when they first used Kranks...Whoever the long haired dude was/is in the band, I saw him drop 2 Krank heads on that gig because the tech wrapped his instrument cord through the top handle.
In regards to that, don't most of you have pedalboards that you run back to your amp? Your cable should be long enough/taped down from there... to where the cable from your axe to the pedalboard is the only one you need to worry about, and its much better pulling a cable out of a pedal than a head because at least a pedal is usually only $100 as compared to dumpin a head.
Fredrik-Ablaze
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Torniojaws
They call me Juha
Until the police come and fine you for illegal use of reserved frequencies
And you damn better have the permission for the wireless device you use, even if it operates in the "free" frequencies. However, the problem is that those free frequencies in Finland are 433.050 MHz - 434.790 MHz, while almost all wireless devices in live audio use frequencies like 620 MHz - 870 MHz (those frequencies are reserved and used by digital TV transmissions in Finland).
-Gavin-
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Until the police come and fine you for illegal use of reserved frequencies
Ha!
I agree 110% !
If you're not used to playing drunk don't go on stage drunk. When I started playing in bands I felt comfortable playing even after a twelvepack since we always had rehearsals on weekends, but after a while we started rehearsing during the week so I really started feeling uncomfortable on stage even after a couple of beers. Nowadays we mostly rehearse on weekends again so playing after a few beers feels ok or even better than playing totally sober.Until the police come and fine you for illegal use of reserved frequencies
If you were to use a digital wireless system, would this still be an issue?
-Gavin-
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Jarkko Mattheiszen
The FU guy.
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Djabthrash
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Mumbling and shit sucks a tad while being on stage, but to me just talking to the audience with sentences that had been learnt by heart is very lame. A live show is supposed to be "live".
I hate it when a band says the same stuff every night :
"hi "PUT YOUR CITY NAME HERE" you're awesome tonight"
"Yesterday this thing happened to me... balblabla.. so this song is called ...."
LAME
smy1
Member
Well, I don't know. I am extremely good at spontaneous audience interaction (I guess having worked as a teacher for 8 years does that to you), but I still know exactly what I want to say at certain points of the show. And simply by knowing what you are gonna say (for example about the new album that people can buy at the merch stand) you will gain more smoothness and a more cool/calm/relaxed attitude.
"Live" to me means that it isn't coming from the playback - and I'd rather give people who pay for it a well-rehearsed "good" show than be a 100% spontaneous moron who can't come up with anything to say at all at a certain point. Or who forgets to remind people of the new CD, or or or ...
If you think it's lame, I can live with that
Djabthrash
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Djabthrash
Member
Well, I don't know. I am extremely good at spontaneous audience interaction (I guess having worked as a teacher for 8 years does that to you), but I still know exactly what I want to say at certain points of the show. And simply by knowing what you are gonna say (for example about the new album that people can buy at the merch stand) you will gain more smoothness and a more cool/calm/relaxed attitude.
"Live" to me means that it isn't coming from the playback - and I'd rather give people who pay for it a well-rehearsed "good" show than be a 100% spontaneous moron who can't come up with anything to say at all at a certain point. Or who forgets to remind people of the new CD, or or or ...
If you think it's lame, I can live with that
If the singer can be spontaneous also it's ok, but when he says stuff that is supposed to be specific to one audience and to that moment (like : "you guys from THIS CITY are the best crowd we've ever seen"), and he just happens to say the EXACT same words on every gig of a huge worldwide tour, i think it sucks pretty bad.
Slipknot's Corey Taylor does that too much for instance (saying rehearsed stuff in between songs) IMO.
smy1
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Nah, I agree. That sucks! I am talking about knowing what you wanna say at certain points between songs. AND already having said it 5 or 10 times before so you don't fuck it up all the time and go "and now ... ehhh ... I think ... ehhm ... we ... uhm ... yea ... so, listen everyone ... ehh ... the next song is ..."
Just saying what you really wanna say out loud in rehearsal will help be more confident and smooth. That's the base. From there you can be spontaneous. And if you have nothing spontaneous to say that evening ... at least you come across professionally
