Live Sound Shift

Okay so I really got stuck in the live sound side of things last night!

Was a great night and the bands werent bad either.

It was a relativley small stage but a rather nice sized system to work with. It was just your typical live setup for a typical 3 - 5 peice band. (Guitars, bass, drums, vocals)

All monitors run through auxiliarys,as were the effect sends. Although 2 of the 3 front stage monitors had blown horns so lost all the top end frequencies, this caused problems at the start as i had to drive the remaining foldback quite hard and started to feedback. although a few tweaks with eq later, this wasnt a problem. I really like the drummers foldback system at this venue. Its like a mini PA (infact, bigger and better than some PAs ive worked with in the past!) Active sub, and passive high speakers. And it really does show that when the drummer especially can hear the power of his right leg thumping through that sub, it really does show in the perfomance!

The night was also recorded by me for a live demo and actually didnt come out too bad!

Just my two cents :)

Mixing in logic pro 9

Spent quite some time today (5 hours!) Mixing a song in Logic for my college course.

I really do like the DAW itself an love the interface. I also like that the plugins are, for the majority, easy to use and very uniformed in appearance. I mention this as i have used plugins before where everything looks different and it takes precious time to find your way around and it slows down your workflow.


Will hopefully post some clips soon with what i have been doing today!

a real eye opener!

At college today we had the privalege of meeting Andrew Dubber (http://andrewdubber.com/)

And i must say.... What a guy! The experience was amazing and the presentation was perfect. I really hope i do get to see him again. It was a real eye opening experience on the things he had to say! Please visit his website above!