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Originally Posted by SaulT
When I started running a soundboard and doing live music I figured that since I had some experience mixing that it would be a cakewalk. I was wrong. Mixing live has its own issues, its own challenges, requires its own approaches.
Being usually in a smaller room means that I can't mic the whole drumkit, that I have little control over how loud or even the drummer is, and I have to balance the house with the musicians' monitors, because so much of the sound in the room actually comes from those monitors.
Add mic bleed, feedback, room modes, singers who sometimes don't know proper mic technique, and it can be a special kind of hell. Really makes you appreciate musicians who might not be flashy or technically brilliant but are consistent and don't try to make it all about them.
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yeah that part was a joke... my timing although perfect isn't totally horrible either for not being cut into perfect time but yeah i get it.