Planeteers Jam Session At Knuckleheads

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Originally Posted by Dinny Blues

I have never been there, but I would guess the problem with the sound has to do with an uncooperative guitar player or a prima donna singer that can't be satisfied. Possibly both.

A guitar player sees a room that size, brings his full stack and turns it up to 11. When the engineer asks him to turn it down so he can mix the whole band, the engineer becomes an asshole and the sound sucks.

When the guitar is making ears bleed, it's impossible to bring the rest of the orchestra up to that level without feedback all over everywhere.

I would bet that if that same guitar player brought his Deluxe Reverb, cranked it to where he is getting some tone, the sound engineer would wind up being a god.

The only thing you can do with a prima donna singer is kind of gross and is usually done face-first up against a brick wall.

Dinny

Yes, that does happen. There are a lot of arrogant guitarists out there for sure. But I've also been in the position where the sound guy just didn't listen at all to what the band was telling him and we couldn't even hear ourselves. That was more a monitor issue but still. Some sound guys just plain suck.