How long have I been doing this???

[markcrawford]

Another funny story from live gigging. I have been playing shows for about 30 years now. Last night was a first. I was checking my new PA sound. I have two RCF 10s and my new Peavey powered mixer. Anyway, I can tell you that ultimately these RCF 10s sound better than the Mackie 10s I have. More volume...more mids, but I digress.

I am at the gig and doing a semi-soundcheck with my vocal mic (long cable) and I can't seem to get a nice high-end crispness. Made no sense, I had it sounded good at home....I kept messing with EQ and then, wait for it, I realized that these speakers have padded covers. I had only opened up the back for the cables and not unzipped the front......dayam, all's well that ends well...

[mike o]

Love the story. Things like this will happen when setting up.

[edward993]

So I turn one of the house speakers toward me/band at soundcheck to get a basic house balance. Analog board, but everything is marked so I’m always close and need only small adjustments. It works great every time. Ummm, once I forgot to turn that house speaker back to FOH …no freakin wonder it seemed so loud, doh! Lol!!! At least it was only the first song.

Edward

[Chriscom]

Originally Posted by edward993

So I turn one of the house speakers toward me/band at soundcheck to get a basic house balance. Analog board, but everything is marked so I’m always close and need only small adjustments. It works great every time. Ummm, once I forgot to turn that house speaker back to FOH …no freakin wonder it seemed so loud, doh! Lol!!! At least it was only the first song.

Edward

Lol, both of these stories are hilarious.

This isn't exactly the same sort of thing, but I picked up a gig today with about six hour's notice when someone cancelled. I arrived 70 minutes ahead of time, comfortable for load in and sound check of my simple Evolve 30m setup at a medium sized pub. Needed almost all of that to diagnose the somewhat concerning issue of no sound coming out of it despite jumping indicators in the app and back-panel control. Reboots, check PA driver connections, nothing.

At seven minutes before go time, I realized that although the Speaker indicator was not set on mute, it was set to zero volume. Which some of us might call "mute." (It's a quirk of the system that sometimes it'll zero-out volume after shutdown without asking).

I have even more grey hair now.

[markcrawford]

This thread should fun to read if others with stories would chime in. I love the story about the speaker pointed at you lol

[Chipotle]

Well, not my mistake, but... I was running sound for another group, who had helped set up. For some reason I really had to crank the gain on one of the mics (LDCs), and kept creeping into feedback. We got through the performance, but it wasn't optimal. Afterwards, I went to take down the microphones that someone else had set up and found that the problematic mic had been put backwards in the shock mount, so it was facing away from the performers. That explained it.

[jricc]

Originally Posted by edward993

So I turn one of the house speakers toward me/band at soundcheck to get a basic house balance. Analog board, but everything is marked so I’m always close and need only small adjustments. It works great every time. Ummm, once I forgot to turn that house speaker back to FOH …no freakin wonder it seemed so loud, doh! Lol!!! At least it was only the first song.

Edward

Edward, I feel you, I did almost the same thing at my gig on Friday. I turned my Everse 8 around to adjust the master volume, and got to talking with someone and left it that way. Now, I'm at this bar every other Friday, so I know how it sounds there. During the first song, I'm thinking man it sounds real muffled, finish the song turn around and it's pointed at the wall.

[edward993]

Ahhh the things that keep us humble, eh? Gotta love that live music is still so human, replete with whatever foibles! At least, for as long as we keep it so!

Edward

[leew3]

I'm feeling a bit better about the times (plural) I've reversed the transmitter and receiver on my wireless guitar system! Fortunately it's been resolved at sound check but duh!

[lkingston]

This is an age related story:

After years of playing in bands, I switched to running sound as it allowed me to live in one place and have insurance and paid vacation time.

Towards the end of my career, I seemed to be blowing high frequency drivers on the left side of the sage (my POV).

Eventually I figured out that I wasn’t blowing horns at all, but rather that my ears could no longer hear the high frequencies that they produced!

I retired from that job soon after to protect what was left of my hearing.

A few years later and I cannot hear at all out of that ear!

[J Buck]

So our church worship band has been struggling with in-ear-monitors, well I have, and using tracks. At rehearsal, sound guy has been messing around trying to get everybody balanced in and all that goes with sound board stuff. I can't hear my acoustic. I'm fiddling with volume, new battery, check pedal board, yep, amps on, yes ear monitor is on..... what the.... oh. Cable into guitar not pushed in all the way.....