Band Name again.. hehehe

Just a name that came to mind suddenly...

Lessismore

(of course meaning 'less is more'.. can be pronounced Lezzi-more) Just thought it sounds pretty interesting.


And also what I suggested earlier before:

SideTrack

(taking the less than usual track)

Dec 1st un-gig

Yo guys, k the dec 1st gig is off ba. Heh coz of equipment problem ah. The organisers won't be able to get very good setup. We just jam regularly and brush up ba, hopefully there will be more gigs in the future!

bear with me

haha, sorry guys for posting everywhere. I'm so lor sor that I decided to start a new post =P.

We can come up with an equipment list, but can the organiser provide? How much are they willing to fork out for sound system and equipment. From there then can see how to work things in.

YuJia you wanna check with them?

My own modification of the wish list:
1) Keyboard stand (no need keyboard)
2) 2 guitar amps
3) 1 bass amp + 1 dynamic mic (with mic stand)
4) Drumset + 1 kickdrum mic (with mic stand) + 2 condensors (with mic stands) if poss
5) 2 Wireless mics. if not, can live with condensors (with mic stands)
6) 2 Stage monitors (imagining that the place is small, we can just place it like left and right, since most of the instruments are not mic-ed up anyway)
7) Decent Speakers (if the one they have is really bad)
8) Console (do they have one? how many channels?)
9) Live Sound engineer. who will be balancing the sound live for us?
10) DI Box x2 (one for keyboard, one for acoustic guitar if we need) - eh, but this one truly, i should go buy one hahah
11) How many electrical points do they have near the performance area?

To me, mu chuan one was quite a nightmare having to plug the guitars directly into the console. Nobody to control the sound for us live (learnt my lesson) and we can't play halfway then stop to adjust also. I'm scared of bad sound systems already, it can break confidence.

So if its gonna be a bad system, yet we gotta pay for equipment rental, then my opinion is, we give this a pass. Bad sound systems are fine for karaoke singing, but definitely not bands.

yes bands are troublesome... what to do =P. So if they want a band, they have to bear this cost...

ps: by the way, just fyi la hehe, monitors shouldn't be called monitor speakers. they are either monitors or speakers =)

PREP for 1st DEC GIG

Hi babes,
i guess we're all pretty occupied with assignments, part-time jobs and full-time jobs at the moment.. that's why no news of jamming.. haha.

Anyway, i've been talking to Rosli, this guy i know from CACS guitar club and he's really experienced about gigs, music setting and stuff. So he gave me some tips that i want you gals to know too.

First thing first, acoustic settings at Guild HOuse is quite lao-pok... the two speakers are located way at the top and at the back. What he advised was: At most, mike up bass drum, bass (low frequencies tend not to be picked up as well), and the singer. Guitar just use amplifer enough. Should ask for A SOUND CHECK of 1hr too.. so we can adjust the music volume, tone..etc properly first.

Make a equipment list and pass it to the organizers too:

WISH-LIST:
1 drumset
2 guitar amps 2x and bass amp x1
3 monitor speakers ( 1 will do and we can share..but impt singer needs this!)
1 keyboard
4 mike stand and mikes x4

GOOD HABITS that we musicians need to pick up too:
T.S.V.
Tune:
guitars and bass to e keyboard
Sound:
Clean sound -> make sure tone is right; Effects-> Different one for diff parts? Figure it out b4 gig starts.
Volume:
During sound check, play the softest and loudest part of the song as a band; make sure vocalist is loudest and can be heard clearly.

To gig or not to gig

Hey guys,

For the Dec 1st (Thurs night) gig, are you guys on about it? If we are to perform, we just need to do 2 to 3 songs, the main problem is the equipment la. Coz we prob need to rent and all that..and I not sure how much money the organisers are willing to fork out.

Alternatively we can choose not to go for the gig, since we haven't had much practise. Its not too late to back out yet heh.

How onz are you guys for this gig? We gotta make a decision soon so I can tell my fren if we decide not to go for it, or we can start sourcing for equipment.