Hill Country Live Sound
Out in search of income on New Years Eve. Had previously met Jeff Keith Band at Salmon Peak Studio, and they were playing at Auslander's in Fredericksburg. Jeff's put together a good group of guys and they've got a popular repertoire. So I went over there early enough to catch them setting up and starting. They plugged their little powered head straight into the two hanging cabinets at the stage and used three on stage wedges for monitors.
The house's hanging cabinets dont sound very good, putting it nicely. Midrange was badly distorted, clipping, overdriving, and generally sucked. I kept pulling down the mids and eventually got most of the distortion out. Their PA head had an effects send, and they needed a little, but it was too flaky for me to find a simple slapback reverby thing when I had to go on-stage to change things. Mike Pas, bass player, uses a small cabinet with a pretty good dose of monitors. Once he settled into a level I got him mixed in good.
All in all they sounded pretty good. Hope it didnt piss'em off, but I split and went to checkout whoever was at Pampells in K'ville. A good size Austin band, never got their name, but they needed a lot of mix help. Gave them some quicky advice on the vocals. Met the leader, handed him a card and got their next Pampells date, Jan 14. Will try to catch them early enough . . . . ......
The house's hanging cabinets dont sound very good, putting it nicely. Midrange was badly distorted, clipping, overdriving, and generally sucked. I kept pulling down the mids and eventually got most of the distortion out. Their PA head had an effects send, and they needed a little, but it was too flaky for me to find a simple slapback reverby thing when I had to go on-stage to change things. Mike Pas, bass player, uses a small cabinet with a pretty good dose of monitors. Once he settled into a level I got him mixed in good.
All in all they sounded pretty good. Hope it didnt piss'em off, but I split and went to checkout whoever was at Pampells in K'ville. A good size Austin band, never got their name, but they needed a lot of mix help. Gave them some quicky advice on the vocals. Met the leader, handed him a card and got their next Pampells date, Jan 14. Will try to catch them early enough . . . . ......