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Since I got home from Capricon, I've felt like my life revolved around Chase's feeding schedule... mainly because it kinda does.
Early this week, I got an email from John of Kennedy's Kitchen. They were going to be in town tonight for a gig at Fionn MacCool's (a whopping seven miles from my house) and my friend Ron from Mother Grove had recommended me when they asked about someone to run sound.
I almost turned it down, 'cause it was going to tie up the entire evening, plus my shoulder's just not up to hauling heaving gear around. Then I talked to John a bit more. Turned out, they were bringing PA, and were willing to do the bulk of the load in, setup, teardown and load out themselves... they just needed somebody to run the board. Fionn's is a tough room (it's really noisy and bouncy and can be feedback city) and they'd tried running sound from stage last time they were here, and this time they wanted somebody to take that worry off their hands.
I thought about the fact that it would get me out of the house for awhile, and I'd even get paid, and I agreed.
Boy am I glad that I did! They were lots of fun, and really pretty easy to engineer. Lots of instrument and lead changes, so the board needed constant twiddling, but I haven't met a Celtic band yet that could really get by on "set it and forget it" sound settings, so that part was expected. Their board turned out to set up a lot like my Behringer, so I didn't really miss having my own rig, and it was so nice not to have to haul all the heavy bits. All five of the musicians were just really nice people and I enjoyed hanging out with them over dinner and the set break, and their whistle player, who's been playing on stage since he was five (he's 19 now) was amazing. I had lots of fun balancing whistle and fiddle... those two always want to compete for the same sonic space, and they were both doing some really lovely things. I was happy with the mix, and the bodhran player's wife thought it sounded good (as did the pub owner, and it's always good to make the guy with the paychecks happy!), so I'm glad I decided to do it.
The only downer of the evening was that the Beetle's Check Engine light decided to come on on the way home. Still ran fine and sounded fine. I'll take a look at it in the daylight tomorrow, but for now I'm gonna go to sleep and assume that the Beetle's issues are something minor.
Early this week, I got an email from John of Kennedy's Kitchen. They were going to be in town tonight for a gig at Fionn MacCool's (a whopping seven miles from my house) and my friend Ron from Mother Grove had recommended me when they asked about someone to run sound.
I almost turned it down, 'cause it was going to tie up the entire evening, plus my shoulder's just not up to hauling heaving gear around. Then I talked to John a bit more. Turned out, they were bringing PA, and were willing to do the bulk of the load in, setup, teardown and load out themselves... they just needed somebody to run the board. Fionn's is a tough room (it's really noisy and bouncy and can be feedback city) and they'd tried running sound from stage last time they were here, and this time they wanted somebody to take that worry off their hands.
I thought about the fact that it would get me out of the house for awhile, and I'd even get paid, and I agreed.
Boy am I glad that I did! They were lots of fun, and really pretty easy to engineer. Lots of instrument and lead changes, so the board needed constant twiddling, but I haven't met a Celtic band yet that could really get by on "set it and forget it" sound settings, so that part was expected. Their board turned out to set up a lot like my Behringer, so I didn't really miss having my own rig, and it was so nice not to have to haul all the heavy bits. All five of the musicians were just really nice people and I enjoyed hanging out with them over dinner and the set break, and their whistle player, who's been playing on stage since he was five (he's 19 now) was amazing. I had lots of fun balancing whistle and fiddle... those two always want to compete for the same sonic space, and they were both doing some really lovely things. I was happy with the mix, and the bodhran player's wife thought it sounded good (as did the pub owner, and it's always good to make the guy with the paychecks happy!), so I'm glad I decided to do it.
The only downer of the evening was that the Beetle's Check Engine light decided to come on on the way home. Still ran fine and sounded fine. I'll take a look at it in the daylight tomorrow, but for now I'm gonna go to sleep and assume that the Beetle's issues are something minor.
