Re: Zoe Keating at Old First Church in San Francisco, on Van Ness and Sacramento, Friday April 24th, at 8pm

[Zoe Keating <info@zoekeating.com>]

yeah! volume pedals would be cool...we weren't supposed to have  
monitors on at all!

ah well, festival sound is like that. you have 15 minutes to setup &  
linecheck and then GO

On Apr 24, 2009, at 8:59 AM, Stefan Tiedje wrote:

>> the monitor guy had the stage monitors in front of me on for this  
>> song, and towards the end was cranking them so the stage was LOUD  
>> (normally we have in ears to avoid this issue). i started to  
>> feedback something fierce and couldn't do anything about it.  i had  
>> to cut the song and couldn't do my planned long layered looping  
>> outro...but it worked out...
>
> Stage monitors need built in volume pedals, and you have to glue a  
> tape across the main mixer channels to prevent deaf sound guys to  
> crank up anything. I always tell them balancing sound is lowering  
> the too loud levels, not pushing what doesn't get through...
>
> Stefan