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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:58 pm
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I've been reading this thread for a while, and since I've only had one experience with a qualified soundman, I have no real opinion about "Soundmen". But I will say the one sound man I worked with was full of crap. It was a band I sat in with every once in a while that was recording a Blues number for a demo. They asked me to do a lead track, since I was the only Blues Guitarist for 100 miles in Souther California in the '90's. I got my Pignose 150 Crossmix to sound like a Cream era Marshall. The soundman cleaned it up to where it sounded like Robert Cray. When the band complained, he said, "That's the sound Blues should have!" and he wouldn't retake it for them.

I assumed he was an incompitant individual, and decided he didn't represent his profession very well. But it's also folly to assume that a Proffesional sound man is qualified because he's a pro. Engineers like Nile Rodgers are not a Dime a Dozen.

I'm an avid Do It Yourselfer. Yourself is the only way to handle the soundboard until you have Record Company money to use. Then, when it's time to work with a Pro, you'll have the experience say, "Bring the highs down, and pan the drums left a little." instead of, "That sound like crap, I don't like it! Change It!"

Anyway, there's a few cents for ya.

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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:26 pm
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Hard to believe that you were the only blues guitarist in SoCal in the 90s, especially since there's a style of blues known pretty widely as "Southern California," there's been a blues guy crawling out from under every rock in the US since the mid 80s, and when SRV died in 1990 the proliferating line of Strat-and-a-hat Vaughnabees would have stretched from Austin to LA six or seven times. :D

Secondly... are you telling me this guy actually changed your AMP settings? Well, what did you let him do that for? :D


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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:52 pm
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I said, "For 100 Miles", I was in San Bernardino, I wasn't in LA. In '92, I was the only 20 year old in So-Cal I met, who cut his teeth on the blues while the rest of his peers was practicing Spandex Poses with pointy Jacksons and Kramers. I could play Lonnie Macks Strike Like Lightning frontwards and Backwards before it was a week old, and I knew Willie Dixon wrote Aint Superstitious before Megadeth covered it. I knew other guitar players who played blues tunes, but I never met a Bluesman in So-Cal. I've met them in Indianapolis, Chicago, Memphis, and even Virginia, but they're elusive in Cali.

And Who plays Southern California Blues? I'd like to hear some of that. And I don't mean a guy who plays blues from So-Cal, I mean "What's This So-Cal Blues Sound?"

Anyway, whatever the incompetent did to my sound, he did after it was recorded, or he recorded it improperly. In retrospect, it sounded like he had the Mic Trim level too low, and tried to bring it up in the mix. And the point was he wouldn't let the "Band That Paid For It" have a retake. It wasn't my gig, I was along for the ride, just lending a hand.

I've said it before and I'll stick by it. The best Hobbyist is better than the worst Professional.

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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:54 pm
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I would give them $50.00 and tell em to make us sound killer, if our sound was really good I'd give him another $50.00. After a few more shows the guy would remember who we were and the sound was sweeeeet.


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