Did a show last night that was booked at the last minute. This meant that our usual sound guy was already booked up. So we used a guy who was known by and recommended to our drummer because even our 2nd choice guy was unavailable. I shall call him Dude because the impression given by this name is the closest I can think of in terms of how he came across.
I can understand how a guy who is not used to a band can take a little while to get a mix together but apparently, according to experienced and trusted ears in the audience the FOH sound was very messy. The Crocs have a very tight and well balanced stage sound. Very simple and easy to mix in the eyes of most sound guys I know.
Even worse, Dude's stage mix not only made things hard to hear but caused a lot of distruption between us due to levels of all kinds fluctuating wildly. After the first set (of 3) I asked if he wanted a line out from me because the entire rest of the band was going through the PA and my amp, as loud as it is was struggling to cut through out front whilst being very loud onstage. He replied "...um....nahhh...sounds good out front man". At the end of the second set he came up and asked me for a line from my amp
The third set consisted of the LED's on my amp only just flickering on 1 bar due to the incredible amount of bass coming through one of the vocal wedges. I was impressed that the wedge could handle that level of output for so long but dismayed when we asked him to cut it out and that we only wanted vox in the wedges nothing else and he replied " Cant. Sorry man"
Why are these ar$eh0le5 allowed to exist?