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Re: LOUD ON STAGE,my 2 cents...

1/12/2000 10:55 PM
Farrow	Re: LOUD ON STAGE,my 2 cents... Amen, Charlie. There have been lots of points raised here that are good, but "vocals on top" IS job one for a rock or pop band. And playing softer during the solo is also a great idea! When my band got started, the other guitar player (also lead singer arrgh..) used to play all the way through every sings. I mean, never took a rest or left a space, just strum, strum, strum. We were driving to a gig listening to "Back In Black," and the other guitar player asked me "How did they get it to sound so huge?" "Space," I replied. So now we try to keep the guitars going at different times for verses, at the same time for choruses, etc. We also do lots of parts with just the bass and drums and vocals, then bring in the guitars for dramatic emphasis. How you play also determines how you sound. We always have these "volume fights" onstage where we each keep turning up to hear ourselves over each other. We solved that by putting our amps on opposite sides of the stge with drums in between. We played a show where the soundman put the mic in the wrong spot on my amp (not in front of a speaker...) and then we started playing. I turned up because my rig wasn't in the house (I didn't realize that though..) and when I finally figured it out I realized my stage volume was about 3X louder than usual... Farrow http://surf.to/pharaohamps

1/12/2000 10:55 PM

Farrow

Re: LOUD ON STAGE,my 2 cents...

Amen, Charlie. There have been lots of points raised here that are good, but "vocals on top" IS job one for a rock or pop band. And playing softer during the solo is also a great idea! When my band got started, the other guitar player (also lead singer arrgh..) used to play all the way through every sings. I mean, never took a rest or left a space, just strum, strum, strum. We were driving to a gig listening to "Back In Black," and the other guitar player asked me "How did they get it to sound so huge?" "Space," I replied. So now we try to keep the guitars going at different times for verses, at the same time for choruses, etc. We also do lots of parts with just the bass and drums and vocals, then bring in the guitars for dramatic emphasis.

How you play also determines how you sound. We always have these "volume fights" onstage where we each keep turning up to hear ourselves over each other. We solved that by putting our amps on opposite sides of the stge with drums in between. We played a show where the soundman put the mic in the wrong spot on my amp (not in front of a speaker...) and then we started playing. I turned up because my rig wasn't in the house (I didn't realize that though..) and when I finally figured it out I realized my stage volume was about 3X louder than usual...

Farrow
http://surf.to/pharaohamps