UbiquitousBubba
8th Rhythm Guitarist: "I'm telling you, Karyn, I can't hear enough of my guitar in the monitor."
Karyn: "That cord on the floor in front of you...Try plugging it into your guitar."
8th Rhythm Guitarist: "Hey! Don't tell me what I need to do. You're just a freaking roadie. Turn me up in the monitor."
Karyn: "Ok. I've turned it up. Now, plug in your guitar and try it again."
8th Rhythm Guitarist: "Did you turn it up? I still can't hear it."
7th Rhythm Guitarist: "I'm telling you guys. I'm beginning to think that having 8 rhythm guitars in the band might be one too many."
3rd Percussionist: "I don't know about that."
Karyn: "Plug it in. Plug it in. Plug it in."
8th Rhythm Guitarist: "I'm still not hearing anything. Why don't you ask someone who knows what they're doing to turn it up for you?"
Karyn: (mutters) "If I have to come up there myself..."
8th Rhythm Guitarist: (blood drains from face as Karyn approaches) "Oh, this cord? I don't know why you didn't plug that in before. I'll fix it for you." (plugs in cord) "Is it turned up yet?"
Karyn: (counts to 20 before responding) "That's a great idea. Why don't I just boost it a wee bit more?" (cranks gain all the way) "Okay, make sure you get right down in front of the monitor and give me a great big power chord."
8th Rhythm Guitarist: "It's about time." (kneels down in front of the monitor wedge and hits an Am)
7th Rhythm Guitarist: "Wow! I've never seen sound peel someone's face clean off."
4th Bassist: "I have. That's how I got this gig."
7th Rhythm Guitarist: "I've got to start playing in a smaller band."
Karyn: "Is anyone else unhappy with the monitor mix?"
(silence)

that could not have happened.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Am is not a power chord. 

 I guess that's why he was only the 8th rhythm guitarist.

Wookiee
Rule 1, never argue with the person on the desk they can really <Insert expletive of choice> your day.

Especially if it happens to be a female.

Except in Portland! They know how to ruin a good band like Ozric Tentacles, by making sure you can not hear the keyboards, and half the time, they go out anyway, including Ed's own synth going out when he was doing a solo!
 
It was so bad, that I walked out the last time they were here! AND, I had warned them about this, and they knew it since their first stop here in 1995, even La Luna had sound problems and Seaweed could not play half the time! It was really sad, and it had to do with the monitors on the stage and the public, because this does not show as an issue on the monitor tapes. But Seaweed was frustrated and I'm sure that hearing one speaker going in and out was not Karyn's intention, and neither was it her intention to ruin a good band!
 
But Portland only likes straight rock'n'roll and if you have keyboards, you are a lousy band and can not play music as rock!

Speakers have to go in and out..  that's how they work!!

I suppose the movement of those speakers pushes air, right? Are we to believe that the sound just wafts through the air as well? You engineers are always making things up.
 
 

UbiquitousBubba
I suppose the movement of those arses pushes air, right? Are we to believe that the gas just wafts through the air as well? You engineers are always full of gas.
 
 

FSF'd

Some nasty feedback issues going on here!

In other words, they are the "sound police"?
 
J

I have no idea what that article or this thread is about (just passing through) but I am indeed becoming much less tolerant at least as far as noise stuff since I've been listening to every little deedledeeboop and blappitywah up close and personal. I used to live in one of the craziest and noisiest neighborhoods in Canada and it didn;t bother me. Once I started doing this crap even the slightest out of place sound drives me bonkers, makes me hitch my pants up to my ankles (edit: nipples... I meant to type nipples... going senile too apparently) and contemplate complaining vociferously to anyone who will listen.
 
Then again this building has been a non stop shizfest of dirtbag spazzout nonsense and the soundproofing is way below code (despite the huge pile of money I shovel toward it every month). It has gotten better very recently though so keep your fingers crossed for cranky ole Beeps.
 
Seriously... alcohol and drug fueled violence occurring in my immediate vincinity seems to have lost all its allure and what is UP with this gatdamn RACKET the young peeplz are listnin to these days??!!!
 
*chews on invisible mouth food and choking the room with the scent of linament and egg farts*