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If you’re not a musician that has the luxury of having a mixing engineer in tow to work the faders as you perform, you know that feedback can be your enemy. Today's article is going...
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I once went in a battle of the bands competition put on by the local youth centre. I think I was probably 14 or 15. Nerves in the stomach, we got up and played our...
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A number of years ago, I played keyboards in an electronic band and was given the job of working out how we could reproduce our recorded parts live. At the time, I was using a...
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Watching the Super Bowl halftime show brought me back into a memory of a time in high school when our family hosted a tuba player from the visiting marching band. I wasn't even sure what...
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If you are ready to ditch the crappy mixers that are provided for you at venues and control your own sound, this is the blog post for you. I've put together some information and a...
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If you are a working musician, you know that it can be tough to get your sound right when you play in a huge variety of different rooms - I once played at a wedding...
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All musicians that play live know the situation - Loud band, loud venue - It's what we do what we do.... that is until you realise that you can't hear the rhythm guitarist standing right...
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I still remember the day I scored a bargain PA system off eBay. This was it. We finally had our own PA and, in my head, this was exactly what the band needed to reach...
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When I first picked up a guitar as a kid, words like overdrive and distortion were almost interchangeable in my world. All I knew was that I wanted my guitar to sound loud, hard and...
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