fox5150
Inspired
I've just got in from band practice having had an uncomfortable conversation with the drummer, who also used to engineer.
Tonight was the first night at band practice with my Axe-FX and Atomic CLR (more to come on that in another thread) and the consensus on the sound was a resounding thumbs up. However, after practice, we're packing up and chatting away and we're discussing about how I connect the Axe-FX up. My plan is to use the CLR from Output 2 as my monitor, and run to FoH from Output 1 and let the PA do the heavy lifting. He was adamant that I'd have to mic the CLR up as any engineer worth his salt will want to blend the sound coming out of the CLR with the processed sound coming out of the Axe-FX. Now this opinion is one borne simply out of ignorance.
Try as hard as I might I could not make him understand that that was pointless. I explained how it all worked and still I couldn't make him understand. He even said "do you think big touring bands run straight to the desk", which is then when I brought up every artist in the Fractal Artist page. Still he was adamant that this was wrong and every engineer will insist on micing it up. Even when I brought up that I'd used the Axe-FX at a gig with our regular engineer and that he loved just running out the back of the box, he still wouldn't accept it.
So, after my waffle and preamble, how do you guys deal with this kind of attitude, short of saying "Just shut the f*ck up and listen to how it sounds".
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Tonight was the first night at band practice with my Axe-FX and Atomic CLR (more to come on that in another thread) and the consensus on the sound was a resounding thumbs up. However, after practice, we're packing up and chatting away and we're discussing about how I connect the Axe-FX up. My plan is to use the CLR from Output 2 as my monitor, and run to FoH from Output 1 and let the PA do the heavy lifting. He was adamant that I'd have to mic the CLR up as any engineer worth his salt will want to blend the sound coming out of the CLR with the processed sound coming out of the Axe-FX. Now this opinion is one borne simply out of ignorance.
Try as hard as I might I could not make him understand that that was pointless. I explained how it all worked and still I couldn't make him understand. He even said "do you think big touring bands run straight to the desk", which is then when I brought up every artist in the Fractal Artist page. Still he was adamant that this was wrong and every engineer will insist on micing it up. Even when I brought up that I'd used the Axe-FX at a gig with our regular engineer and that he loved just running out the back of the box, he still wouldn't accept it.
So, after my waffle and preamble, how do you guys deal with this kind of attitude, short of saying "Just shut the f*ck up and listen to how it sounds".
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