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> I wish that I could say the same thing, the gig I did last nightwas the biggest pain that I've gone
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> through in a long time. First off my secondary assistant didn'tshow up. The venue was a x-mas party
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> for about 200 Darientel employees. I was hired to run FOH andrecord all 3 acts. Very formal dining,
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> with no where out front to set the board, so I had to run soundfrom side of stage. 2 bands and an
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> adult comedy skit with life size puppets. The puppeteers worewireless mic/headsets and went out in
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> front of the mains. They didn't have a clue about not being able tostand in front of the mains with
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> wireless mics. The puppeteers were supposed to go on at 8 followedby the bands. So I set their
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> receivers up first on the board. Instead the time and order gotswitched on my intinerary at 7:20,
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> the first act was a band and they went on at 7:30 not 8, with thepuppeteers going on next and that
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> band back after that, before the headliner. I rushed my ass offpulling the receivers out of the
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> board to replace with the XLR cables from the band. In my haste Iforgot to save the puppeteers
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> scene. Not having 3rd assistant had me running behind soundcheckschedule with my own gear. Adding
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> to that time, the bands were sharing the backline and the firstthing that I hear is a real loud
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> HUUMMMMMMMMM. I said what in the hell was that, than I hear itagain HUUMMMMM. It was the bass
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> players amp. A Trace Eliot combo. It was fried when he tried toturn it on. I fiddled with it for a
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> few seconds and quickly determined that it wasn't going to work. Noone had a spare bass amp, so I
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> offered a spare monitor head to use, the cable coming out of thehead on the amp was just long
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> enough to go into the speaker jack on the combo, but not to thespare head, so I gave the guy a
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> Nobels balanced attenuator, told him to turn the attenuator on -40dB and run it from the head to
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> speaker cable. By the time we got things setup and workingsoundcheck time had expired. No
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> soundcheck other than a quick tap on the mics while I confirmed theinput levels to FOH and
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> recorder. When the second band went on, one of the guys forgot thathe needed a mic in front of him,
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> so in the middle of their first song, he yells over to me I need amic. My son jumps up to take a
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> mic from the other side of stage and one of the band guys had tapedit's cable to the floor along
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> with his floor pedals. One band in between songs, moved micsoutside of optimum monitor rejection
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> zones, than had the fu*king nerve to bitch about the feedback.Saying over the mic we can't have
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> this Ronny. Shit like that went on all night. The production teamwere clueless and were making
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> decisions without consulting the whole chain of elements that makeup a successful event. You can't
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> tell one person that it's ok to do something, without knowingexactly how it's going to affect the
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> next guys job. To make a longer story longer, the bass track wasscrewed, The mic for two mounted
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> toms went out and the recordings are scratch unless I can pull thebass guitar out of the floor
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> track. Which I've done before. :O)half gallon of Crown Royal and a
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\n> Sorry for the rant. The v96 performed great as usual. I did get a
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> bottle of 15 year old Pinch in appreciation for going above andbeyond the call of duty. I'll
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> probably still have them next x-mas. :O).
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