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on 12/8/03 11:53 PM, max valentino at ekstasis1@hotmail.com wrote: > Finally?.the nature of looping festivals necessitates there be no > soundchecks. As we all know, the more gear you bring the more can go >wrong > and the more a check IS necessary. At my first festival (Loopstock 2002), I was on early and though my equipment wasn't entirely cooperative (partially just getting it wired, partially the fact that I'd decided to experiment with having EDPs set to different interface modes), I felt that I couldn't let myself succumb to technological problems. I don't know how I would have felt if I'd been on later in the day and seen any number of people fight with and at times succumb to their tech. For at least the first half of the performance, I felt like I was in freefall, but I kept on going and people told me they couldn't tell. The video did reveal an inability to make eye contact with the audience -- something that I've tried to work on at later gigs -- but I think it's a good discipline to simply try to play through as many technical problems as possible. It's a good pre-show discipline to figure out how to strip the equipment down knowing the constraints of the festival environment. (Writing this reminds me that I need to put some emphasis on finding a less noisy replacement for my Passac Unity*8 line mixer -- definitely the weak spot in my rig when my EDPs aren't behaving strangely.) Mark P.S. My one technical problem at Y2K2 was having the tremolo lock slip on my Klein resulting in a frenzy of trying to figure out why the guitar had suddenly drifted out of tune when I'd tuned it up shortly before going on.