Re: tuners---I don't mind seeing them on other's instruments, but I broke my intellitouch when it flew off my headstock, off the stage, onto the floor. I think I wore out the clip by keeping it on my mic stand and so I kept it on the headstock. Whoops.
I keep my monitors as minimal as possible, but I find I gotta have the bass or it just don't work for me. In-ears: Ugh. I like Mike's 55-gal. drum comparison, but I found it more like wearing a helmet or something. Just hate not hearing the crowd. People will yell something and I'd yell "what?" Listening to a Hartford show from '96, hard to believe there's no monitors there. erik On Jul 7, 5:32 pm, mandoho...@comcast.net wrote: > Some years ago, '96. or so, I saw Tater play with the Sullivans in Portland, > Or. Lucky for me, I was in the center of the front row, I could hear the > mandolin just fine. However, seems the monitors were so hot on the mandolin > that Mike was staying two feet away from the mic, backing off and he still > thought he was too loud. Well, nothing was coming out in the house from the > mando, lot's of banjo and Sullivans, no Mike. The main reason I like a single > mic and no monitors, takes the sound man out of the mix, more than half the > time a good thing. I've learned how to EQ for a single mic and convince the > sound man to leave it alone if he wants to live. > > Clyde Clevenger > Just My Opinion, But It's Right > Salem, Oregon > Old Circle > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robin Gravina" <robin.grav...@gmail.com> > To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 2:02:59 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific > Subject: Re: To stand, or not?? > > I don't like the tuna on, but if the tuning goes off during the gig, then a > quick check is a good thing, but I don't really want to know if one of the > strings goes a little off - just if it bothers me. I was desperate for > monitors until recently, when the house sound was good and we finally had a > monitor - the mando sounded like a bag of tools being dumped on the floor and > I couldn't hear the bass strings of the guitar enough to play happily, > although apparently all was well on the audience side. I think a lot of this > stuff comes from using electric rules for acoustic music, as the superb post > about doing sound said a while ago. > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Topher Gayle < surfns...@gmail.com > wrote: > > Ideally, I like to have the tuner close to hand, but not on the headstock. > But if there isn't anywhere good to put it, I'll leave it on. This isn't for > prettiness. The things rattle. Now there are places where it's so noisy > you'll never hear the rattle. For examples: > > The pizza place. It can be so noisy there that without monitors I can't hear > myself, much less the fiddle player standing 6 feet away. > > Likewise at many contra dances, when the dancers are stomping (after the > beat, usually, thanks to the speed of sound) and the caller is calling, and > we're playing in a really echoic gym, monitors are the difference between > playing and not playing. > > When the sound is perfect and the audience attentive, yes I really want the > tuner off, if possible. That's not usual, for me. > > Topher > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:48 AM, < mandoho...@comcast.net > wrote: > > There was a time when I could tune all my instruments by ear, just pull an A > out of the air and tune to that. > Well, 4 years of riding in helicopters with no doors, 6 years as a Blacksmith > and twenty years operating heavy equipment I don't hear the overtones > anymore, I need my tuner, on the headstock, all the time, it's the lesser of > two evils. > > Clyde Clevenger > Just My Opinion, But It's Right > Salem, Oregon > Old Circle > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Hedding" < michaelhedd...@gmail.com > > To: "Taterbugmando" < taterbugmando@googlegroups.com > > Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 10:02:05 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific > Subject: Re: To stand, or not?? > > As I was recently seen in a compromising photo on the front page of a > Wisconsin paper with my tuner on my headstock I feel the need to come > out and say what's the big deal? > > For me it's not ideal I'll give you that but it's the lesser of two > evils, to me it looks even more silly to be reaching in to my pocket > and fiddling around after and many times during the middle of the > songs. Granted, maybe I need to lighten my touch a little on the > strings but hey I just want to be noticed I guess. > > Hopefully I'll just be able to tune by ear someday and everyone will > be better off. > > Mike- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
