The Internets Are Back.
Apparently, Qwest did "something" downtown, and knocked me off-line for the last week and a half. Luckily, zee telefono lets me somewhat keep up with email and stuff. I can finally do a "real" post here. My wrists have atrophied, though, and now typing hurts.
The big news is that the Film on the Rocks went fairly well. Personally, I'll take the monitors from the Gothic or the Ogden any day over what we endured on Wednesday. Those two were like listening to a CD. Hell, I'll take the Meadowlark "no PA reinforcement" over that crap. I couldn't hear much of anything except cymbals, and as a result, screwed one song up pretty good. I don't think that any of us were happy.
Hopefully, the resulting video and audio won't be too painful. Being live on channel two was nerve-wracking, but good exposure. If only we'd started the set with one of the "dirty" songs, right? It's pretty funny, though:
One of my major gripes is that I couldn't hear myself at all. Honestly, my rig is louder at practice. I was on "2", so that the monitors dude didn't get a hot signal. Every other DI-obsessed sound dude has plugged into the amp's DI, and not had a problem. This dude totally did, and the entire PA made an expensive sound. I turned down, and apparently, it sounded alright for the FOH, but it was almost inaudible on stage. I played too hard and thus, too sloppy to really feel great about the performance.
I'm looking into a decent passive DI box now. I should have gotten one years ago, but I never thought that I'd need one. The Ampeg preamp that I was running always did a nice job, and more recently, I was running the Mesas so hot that the only way to really capture that "amp on the verge of breaking" (number one broke down 3 times) sound was with a microphone.
So, I'm looking at DI boxes on the web this morning. The talkbass.com forum has more opinions than I'd like. It seems that the Radial JDI (which I've been happy to record with), the Countryman 85, and even the (gasp) Sansamp BDDI (I already have one of these and it's a little too icepick for me) seem to be well-liked. I'm really curious about the Whirlwind Director, but I can't seem to find much about it. If I really really was into sparing no expense, I'd opt for the Reddi Tube DI, but that's a little extravagant.
Shopping DI box specs is a lot like buying socks or underwear, I think.
The big news is that the Film on the Rocks went fairly well. Personally, I'll take the monitors from the Gothic or the Ogden any day over what we endured on Wednesday. Those two were like listening to a CD. Hell, I'll take the Meadowlark "no PA reinforcement" over that crap. I couldn't hear much of anything except cymbals, and as a result, screwed one song up pretty good. I don't think that any of us were happy.
Hopefully, the resulting video and audio won't be too painful. Being live on channel two was nerve-wracking, but good exposure. If only we'd started the set with one of the "dirty" songs, right? It's pretty funny, though:
One of my major gripes is that I couldn't hear myself at all. Honestly, my rig is louder at practice. I was on "2", so that the monitors dude didn't get a hot signal. Every other DI-obsessed sound dude has plugged into the amp's DI, and not had a problem. This dude totally did, and the entire PA made an expensive sound. I turned down, and apparently, it sounded alright for the FOH, but it was almost inaudible on stage. I played too hard and thus, too sloppy to really feel great about the performance.
I'm looking into a decent passive DI box now. I should have gotten one years ago, but I never thought that I'd need one. The Ampeg preamp that I was running always did a nice job, and more recently, I was running the Mesas so hot that the only way to really capture that "amp on the verge of breaking" (number one broke down 3 times) sound was with a microphone.
So, I'm looking at DI boxes on the web this morning. The talkbass.com forum has more opinions than I'd like. It seems that the Radial JDI (which I've been happy to record with), the Countryman 85, and even the (gasp) Sansamp BDDI (I already have one of these and it's a little too icepick for me) seem to be well-liked. I'm really curious about the Whirlwind Director, but I can't seem to find much about it. If I really really was into sparing no expense, I'd opt for the Reddi Tube DI, but that's a little extravagant.
Shopping DI box specs is a lot like buying socks or underwear, I think.
Labels: gear acquisition syndrome, shows, Video, whining
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