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My band had their first gig last night and, althought we sounded good in practice, we were fairly bad. The problem was we didnt have time to do a sound check before we went on due to technical dificulties with wires and amps and stuff so we were playin blind (or deaf maybe). We thought we had the volume set ok but it turned out we didnt.
The main fault was the dodgy PA system we were using. It was too quiet and the vocals couldnt be heard over the music. We had the choice of either turning down the amps so the vocals could be heard but leaving the drums to drown out the whole thing or keeping the amps loud so the guitars could be heard over the drums. Either way we would have had a problem.
This is were the help with drumsticks comes into play. what we needed was a way of tuning the drums volume down, but obviously drums dont have a volume controll. I know that brushes can be used instead of sticks but that gives a different type of sound so I was wondering is there anything else that can be used to lower the volume? We tried telling the drummer to just hit the drums more softly but it didnt seem to work.
The main fault was the dodgy PA system we were using. It was too quiet and the vocals couldnt be heard over the music. We had the choice of either turning down the amps so the vocals could be heard but leaving the drums to drown out the whole thing or keeping the amps loud so the guitars could be heard over the drums. Either way we would have had a problem.
This is were the help with drumsticks comes into play. what we needed was a way of tuning the drums volume down, but obviously drums dont have a volume controll. I know that brushes can be used instead of sticks but that gives a different type of sound so I was wondering is there anything else that can be used to lower the volume? We tried telling the drummer to just hit the drums more softly but it didnt seem to work.
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I'm sure i saw these wierd drumsticks that suposedly lower the volume, but it was years ago. I was probably dreaming seen as non of you have mentioned them. I'm going to look at a new Bass guitar on monday so i'll ask at the shop if they know about them.
Put a pillow in the bass drum. The music staff did that at my school to tone it down so people in other lessons couldn't be disturbed, and it still works fine.
i suppose if we use a better PA system it wont matter to much. AND having a proper sound check beforehand would probably help too.
Any of you guys got websites for your bands with sample music or anything.
We've just made one so its not finished yet but its got one song ont there for now. We'll have more when we get round to recording them some time over the next few weeks (hopefully).
[URL] http://www.kawada-band.tk [/URL]
Just so you know, this song is a bit of a joke song and doesnt really represent the kind of music we do, but its the only one we have recorded.
Any of you guys got websites for your bands with sample music or anything.
We've just made one so its not finished yet but its got one song ont there for now. We'll have more when we get round to recording them some time over the next few weeks (hopefully).
[URL] http://www.kawada-band.tk [/URL]
Just so you know, this song is a bit of a joke song and doesnt really represent the kind of music we do, but its the only one we have recorded.
I guess just hitting it less hard would help, although hopefully you won't have problem again... I'm playing in my first gig next friday... sure hope we don't have any problems.
Putting pads on the drums might help, but then that could cut out the sound completely. Unfortunately, more often than not if the drummer actually played softly it wouldn't matter. Ask him/her to do it REALLLY softly and you might get a decent sound level.
No clue about the drumsticks, but hope some people liked your gig despite difficulties! I want to play on stage. Actually, I just want to play..
Good luck in future.
Good luck in future.
My band had their first gig last night and, althought we sounded good in practice, we were fairly bad. The problem was we didnt have time to do a sound check before we went on due to technical dificulties with wires and amps and stuff so we were playin blind (or deaf maybe). We thought we had the volume set ok but it turned out we didnt.
The main fault was the dodgy PA system we were using. It was too quiet and the vocals couldnt be heard over the music. We had the choice of either turning down the amps so the vocals could be heard but leaving the drums to drown out the whole thing or keeping the amps loud so the guitars could be heard over the drums. Either way we would have had a problem.
This is were the help with drumsticks comes into play. what we needed was a way of tuning the drums volume down, but obviously drums dont have a volume controll. I know that brushes can be used instead of sticks but that gives a different type of sound so I was wondering is there anything else that can be used to lower the volume? We tried telling the drummer to just hit the drums more softly but it didnt seem to work.
The main fault was the dodgy PA system we were using. It was too quiet and the vocals couldnt be heard over the music. We had the choice of either turning down the amps so the vocals could be heard but leaving the drums to drown out the whole thing or keeping the amps loud so the guitars could be heard over the drums. Either way we would have had a problem.
This is were the help with drumsticks comes into play. what we needed was a way of tuning the drums volume down, but obviously drums dont have a volume controll. I know that brushes can be used instead of sticks but that gives a different type of sound so I was wondering is there anything else that can be used to lower the volume? We tried telling the drummer to just hit the drums more softly but it didnt seem to work.