We've got to play in (wouldya believe this) an OLD FOLKs HOME this Sunday! Apparently the Ents. Sec. (or whatever they call him) is up for getting people to play for the inmates, and our bandleader thinks there may be a steady but not necessarily lucrative market for it, which could easily lead to louder and better paid gigs. Anyway the upside is we won't have to take in a large PA or a lot of heavy backline. I'm going to use my 5W combo. Another reason for us doing it is that our repertoire is mainly pop hits from 1958-1962, and we think a lot of the inmates will remember them, hopefully with some fondness.
Mr Bandleader has visited the venue so he knows the size of the room. Small, apparently. We will have very little space to set up in. so we tried setting up our band practice with similar space restrictions. We put Mr Bandleader's 1x12 combo stage right of the drummer right up next to him, Mr Bass player's 1x12 combo stage left of the drummer right up next to him, with my 1x8 combo sitting on top of it. A powered wedge sat in front of the kick drum pointing away from it. We heard the vocal as "spill" but it worked.
Putting everything as close as possible tightened the sound up and made us sound more coherent. I actually heard Mr Bandleader's rhythm playing a much more easily, and because Mr Bass player had his combo by his feet and mine on top of it he turned up slightly, which vastly improved his sound. I think physically we sounded better, but we also played better because of it.
At the gig, I think we mayl end up using 2 wedges, if the number of beige woolly cardigans soak up the sound of the forward facing wedge so much that we need one pointing back at us too.
Other considerations: may be not beer spilled on the pedalboard, just dribble. And do we need more than 3 numbers (by the time we've play the 3rd they'll have forgotten the first) ??
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None of us could afford to live there. Unless they took our instruments & amps as payment ...
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tbh, the above was intended as the main point of the thread. Who else thinks that trying to make the band sound as if it is coming from a single point source is a good idea?
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Good luck @Phil_aka_Pip
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We're playing an afternoon gig in the bandleaders local pub next week. IMO we need the bandleader to change his attitude - on several things, but this in particular: he thinks that playing in the pub at the same volume as we played in the old folks gulag will do. I say it won't, even if our intention is not to play at stadium volume. He also thinks all the gigs we will do will be for "background sounds" while people talk over us. Whereas in some pubs at least they will want us to be more of a dance band and play with a little more gusto.
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