To the point of maybe the modeler was too powerful frequency wise for a crappy PA, they had a freggin Nord plugged in. Not many musical instruments are capable of producing the brown sound. A Nord can have you involuntarily crapping your drawers with one low C note. I have a better Soundguy rant from last night (this just keeps getting better and better).
So we don’t have our regular guy for my 80s tribute and hire a very capable yet expensive Soundguy for an average bar. My band follows a pretty dead business model of always using pro sound, even for a bar where a small PA set up and controlled from an iPad would be fine. So, I knew this guy has the personality of 30 year old grandmas wallpaper going in, I didn’t want to push it and just wanted to try and have a good gig, get my money and get out. Simple enough.
My wife who sings in the band sets up with a Voicelive III, which is all her vocal FX but even more important, harmonies. She puts her FX unit down, its not even on a freggin board and has no footprint to speak of. His words exactly “what are we going to go back and forth now”? It’s XLR in, XLR out. This is not hard. Why be this big a dick? I think he made 400-500 bucks on a fkkn bar gig, you think 2 cables is asking him like we bounced the check. Why take the gig if you don’t want to do it and are going to be this level of miserable? Not only that, but where is the “back and forth”? This was only the “forth” part.
If I buy a PA and start doing live sound, do I get to be this big of a dick, too? As a guitarist, I’m not sure I’d have many teeth left with this attitude.