Neighbours don't like the noise?
We played a wedding gig last night, and there was a very clear note in
the instructions that the band stop at 11:45 ( we actually stopped at
more like 11:56 ). My assumption was that the venue gets a lot of
complaints from the neighbours.
Afterwards the venue owner congratulated us, wanted some business cards
(which is always a good thing at a wedding venue) and said, gleefully,
that there had been no complaints from the neighbours.
Which I took to mean that the neighbours liked us, although apparently
it was probably that we weren't too loud. Now, an 11 piece band with
horns in a room where every bass note/drum kick boomed disturbingly (I
got that mostly under control by the end of the first set[1]), is never
going to be what I'd call 'quiet' - so it makes me wonder just how load
the average wedding band/DJ *is* these days.
--- Derek
[1] One of those weird acoustic things where you play a note, especially
a note below G, and half a second later it comes back at you way louder
than it started out. I ended up taking most of the bass out of the EQ
and turning the underneath speaker on the Ten2 down to 50% - it still
boomed a bit, but not to the point that everything else was completely
swamped. If we play there again I'll experiment a bit more with the low
frequency cut. Unfortunately there was no time for any serious sound
check before hand.
--
Derek Tearne -
de...@url.co.nz
Vitamin S: improvisation from New Zealand
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d'Groove: 12 piece party/covers band
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