I finally "found" my live sound!!!!!

afurth · Unread post by **afurth** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:37 pm

I posted this on Ants, but after I did I remembered that they (for the most part) don't know shit about this kind of stuff haha

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Last night, I had a gig on campus. This time, i showed up to the venue 2 hours in advance with my own PA, equipment, etc. - i did it right.

IT SOUNDED AMAZING.

Before, I personally thought that I had a good, full unique acoustic tone when I was playing in my room, in the backyard, for friends... but I had a lot of trouble recreating that sound through my pickup, through a PA, etc. I didn't know how to sing into a microphone (learning how to back away because I use a lot of vocal dynamics), I had trouble because I "attacked" my strings a little too hard, all that stuff.

But last night was different. I played my acoustic (fishman natural II) through my Fender acoustisonic amp and output that directly into the PA. My lead player played through his nice vintage fender amp (not sure what model) and we used a Shure sm-57 to mic the amp - put that through the PA. I bought a Shure Beta 58a and used it for vocals for the first time through the PA (by the way, best mic ever i highly recommend it... SOOOO worth the extra cash). We didn't use an external mixer, but the amp for my roomates SoundTech PA has simple levels (it was all we needed for our acoustic/vocals, electric lead duo).

It just sounded awesome. It sounded like it does when I play for my friends, etc. I was so much more comfortable knowing the sound was dead on and was what I really sound like. I've played over 40 gigs, but I'm only 20 and I'm still learning about all this stuff.

Last night's gig was different.

And it showed in CD sales, crowd reaction, and interest after the show. I sold 15 CDs (to a crowd of 50 people, not too bad), and some people wanted them autographed haha, my website has had 100 hits since last night and my new band got two gigs (we haven't even rehearsed with our drummer bassist yet - we just found them in the last week). The new material is two weeks old, but it got the best reaction of all (because it was written with my really good lead player in mind).

Sorry for the long post, but i'm still like high from this gig last night and I wanted to share!

iha · Unread post by **iha** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:47 pm

nice

Willin · Unread post by **Willin** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 5:00 pm

I just visited to your site and listened to heavy wings and creative influences. Both are very nice songs. I likeeee.

Congrats and here's to continued success.

afurth · Unread post by **afurth** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 5:07 pm

Willin wrote:I just visited to your site and listened to heavy wings and creative influences. Both are very nice songs. I likeeee.

Congrats and here's to continued success.

thanks man... is your user name possibly a tip to the little feet song?

AustinG · Unread post by **AustinG** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:18 am

Sweet, have you recorded it yet? If so post, I'd like to hear..

I've had a 58a for a while.. I use it to mic my guitar, but when I sang through it I liked how it was easy to tell where it was picking up because it was so direct over the mic.. no other noise...

afurth · Unread post by **afurth** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:24 am

AustinG wrote:Sweet, have you recorded it yet? If so post, I'd like to hear..

We wanted to record it, but my lead player had to take the bus to the gig and he couldn't get his recording rig/condenser mic over to the venue, which was too bad. It really sounded good. Hopefully next month when we do it, we can get a recording of it.

sfmartins · Unread post by **sfmartins** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:35 am

Just read it now, nice! :thumbsup:

afurth · Unread post by **afurth** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:34 pm

sfmartins wrote:Just read it now, nice!

thanks, looking back on this... i was just so pumped! it was the first time in over two years of gigging that i walked away from the show thinking i had sounded great.

and the crowd reaction showed... it was awesome!

anyways, thanks again for reading it!

Kahn · Unread post by **Kahn** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:57 pm

afurth wrote:
Willin wrote:I just visited to your site and listened to heavy wings and creative influences. Both are very nice songs. I likeeee.

Congrats and here's to continued success.
thanks man... is your user name possibly a tip to the little feet song?

Little Feat?

afurth · Unread post by **afurth** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:11 pm

Kahn wrote:
afurth wrote:
Willin wrote:I just visited to your site and listened to heavy wings and creative influences. Both are very nice songs. I likeeee.

Congrats and here's to continued success.
thanks man... is your user name possibly a tip to the little feet song?
Little Feat?

http://www.lyricsdownload.com/little-fe ... yrics.html

This song... my dad played it for me when i was younger. Anyways, just thought it might be the same thing.

iha · Unread post by **iha** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:25 pm

i think kahn was just questing your spelling of feat.

afurth · Unread post by **afurth** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:57 pm

iha wrote:i think kahn was just questing your spelling of feat.

aha. i see - whoops. anyways, i'm more of a lowell george fan... i love his solo stuff. anyways... great tune

Willin · Unread post by **Willin** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:34 pm

nah, this is just a name I made up - i'll have to check out that song though

fede · Unread post by **fede** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:24 pm

Congrats!

Fede

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I finally "found" my live sound!!!!!

I finally "found" my live sound!!!!!

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