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I hate running live sound! [message #83577]

Mon, 23 April 2007 09:20

DC
Messages: 722
Registered: July 2005

Senior Member

I don't do it very often any more, and now I remember why...

grrrrr

I ran two shows on Sat. In the morning was a Veterans parade.
Nice folks, well organized, good parade. COOL old WWII jeeps
and other restored mil vehicles. Pro DJ's from local radio, did
a great job announcing. 4+ hours of hard work...

Ok, no sweat.

Now one of my beloved college faculty was retiring and asked
specifically for me to run sound for the event.

I would never say no...

Soooo, one jackass after another of the "performers" shows
up with their Stack-O-CD's and tells me "yeah, just play track 1
and then track 3 on disc 2, and then track 6 on disc 3 after a
30 second pause. yeah that's the ticket..."

Gee, did you know that you could put all these on ONE DAMN
CD?? With pauses and everything?? But nooo, I don't say a
word.

Then up comes the Dance Troupe with their iPod and sez
"hey you got some RCA inputs on that there mixer?" This,
of course is ten minutes before the event... Well, yeah, since
the last-minute DVD request took my last set of 1/4" to RCA
cables, and my stereo DI, you'll have to go into the 2-track
return... ummm, no level control other than the masters, and
no EQ... Fun... Tinny sounding music, and no EQ...

It gets worse, but my client is here so I will fill you in on the rest
later...

DC

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		I hate running live sound! By: DC on Mon, 23 April 2007 09:20
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: EK Sound on Mon, 23 April 2007 09:59
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: DC on Mon, 23 April 2007 11:04
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: Deej [4] on Mon, 23 April 2007 11:06
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: rick on Mon, 23 April 2007 11:26
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: DC on Mon, 23 April 2007 12:16
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: erlilo on Tue, 24 April 2007 00:52
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: dc[3] on Tue, 24 April 2007 09:26
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: dc[3] on Mon, 23 April 2007 12:33
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: Paul Braun on Mon, 23 April 2007 20:09
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: Don Nafe on Tue, 24 April 2007 08:39
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: DC on Tue, 24 April 2007 09:23
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: Don Nafe on Wed, 25 April 2007 01:08
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: Neil on Wed, 25 April 2007 06:07
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: DC on Wed, 25 April 2007 06:41
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: Paul Braun on Wed, 25 April 2007 09:23
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: DC on Wed, 25 April 2007 13:09
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: EK Sound on Wed, 25 April 2007 15:37
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: dc[3] on Wed, 25 April 2007 15:48
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: EK Sound on Wed, 25 April 2007 16:10
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: dc[3] on Wed, 25 April 2007 16:21
		Re: I hate running live sound! By: Don Nafe on Wed, 25 April 2007 10:04

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