I am so tired of dealing with Engineers who won't listen, who think they know everything, and who make my band play like crap! It is always the same, they crank up the bass, no matter how many times I tell them to turn it down they refuse, the crank up the vocals, so all you hear is bass and vocals. They put a million mics on everything, put 10 monitors on stage and put way too much volume in it all. They put the lead guitar way far back in the mix because they have everything cranked up so loud if they were to put the lead guitar at the half the right level in the mix then it starts feeding back like crazy.
Soooo...
Any help with a tech rider would be appreciated. How would you explain/demand the correct sound in writing so that I can actually get something decent.
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In my band, we are all also playing with good clip-on mics, so the sound the engineer gets from us doesn't require lots of EQ.
The points in Dennis' rider are all very good (especially insisting that the engineer should not adjust the volumes while the band is playing).
Frank
"It's a great feeling to be dealing with material which is better than yourself, that you know you can never live up to."
-- Orson Welles
I've been on the other side of the fence too - trying to do sound with musicians poorly articulating concerns, not knowing what they want, having terrible mic technique, no dynamic control, or no basic knowledge of how a PA works (which I think we all should have) - but turning everything right up just compounds every potential problem. I have no idea why they do it.