any other guitar players out there have had a battle with the soundguy asking you to turn it down?
played last night and took a modest sized fender supersonic, (other bands had brough fender twons / marshal stacks etc) had it on just under half, band sound onstage was great and i got the sound i wanted...anyway the sound guy said i was too loud so i kindly turned down.
After the first song everyone was asking to turn the guitars up, so i did and motioned to the sound guy to do the same..after the set everyone said that the guitars were still too low in the mix.
had a word with the soundguy and he said any louder and they would have clashed with the vocals...the guitars a fooking lead instrument pal..it needs to be heard!!!
Happened a while ago too..did a gig with my dad, and took my 15 watt fender blues junior, had it on half to get the tone i wanted, and the sound guy still asked me to turn down!! this is at a place where Wilko Johnson, Duane Eddy, Jace Everett has played. surely the y don't get told to turn down?? so anyway just to please him i turned down (a bit) ,this not getting the twang / tone & volume out of my grestsch, and not enjoying the gig as much cos i didn't have the sound i wanted. again after the first set, i turned up a bit, to which the soundguy came onstage and blatantly turned my amp down!!! twat..again after the gig everyone said that the guitar wasn't cutting through.
anyone else had any problems?? our band knows what sound we want upfront and i'm sure we all could do a better job than the 'in house' sound guys employed.
soz for the rant..just pisses me off!
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