by Diceman » Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:42 pm
Well said Brother Onile,
Greetings to all for 2006.
Since taking Onile's advice in another thread, and getting self miked and self monitored, I am now able to play hard, with nuance and within my comfort zone, and bells, shakers and other toys can be played with more accuracy and you know they can be heard. and before anyone starts to talk about 'the good old days', PAs, monitors and amps are much louder now than in 'tgod', and we dont all benefit from empathetic, big eared sound engineers, like Abacua.
If like me you are a 'percussion pimp' and play with anyone who wants and pays you, getting miked up, self mixed and in ear monitoring, has salvaged my hands, my ears, my chops and my enjoyment of playing live.
Drummers get the heavy metal carbon fibre turbo sticks out when the sound on stage gets big, we split fingers!!!
May the gig fairy smile on us all in 2006
Suave
Diceman