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Hi all
I have a Roland VR09 on top (this week upgrading to the VR760- yay!), and a Kurzweil SP4-7 on the bottom- I have about 30 different settings in the Roland as I play in Madness cover band and there are a lot of sounds plus I've only been in this game for 2 years so not skilled enough to change sounds on the fly quite yet.
I have a volume pedal for the Roland, and I use in ear Monitors. Both boards have mono cable into passive DI boxes and then into PA
1. Balancing:
I get complaints from the band and from the sound guys that the volume on each of my settings varies too much. I have at this stage been balancing by using a SLM app in front of my monitor at home.
It seems I need a mixer with a level meter I can view and set to zero for each patch. Can anyone recommend one? Is digital better?
From reading the threads in this forum- it seems that volume pedal is King- however as I am still on a steep learning curve, I'd like to have everything as balanced as possible first.
2. Sound checks:
This confuses me every time. The sound guys asks you to go to your loudest setting possible - so the peak gains can be set right? Then they don't seem to say - ok now go to your normal level - so the volume can be set for FOH? I can't seem to understand this process or the language used. How do you manage this process? I want to find the correct language so I can communicate this at the time? Thank you!!!!
I have a Roland VR09 on top (this week upgrading to the VR760- yay!), and a Kurzweil SP4-7 on the bottom- I have about 30 different settings in the Roland as I play in Madness cover band and there are a lot of sounds plus I've only been in this game for 2 years so not skilled enough to change sounds on the fly quite yet.
I have a volume pedal for the Roland, and I use in ear Monitors. Both boards have mono cable into passive DI boxes and then into PA
1. Balancing:
I get complaints from the band and from the sound guys that the volume on each of my settings varies too much. I have at this stage been balancing by using a SLM app in front of my monitor at home.
It seems I need a mixer with a level meter I can view and set to zero for each patch. Can anyone recommend one? Is digital better?
From reading the threads in this forum- it seems that volume pedal is King- however as I am still on a steep learning curve, I'd like to have everything as balanced as possible first.
2. Sound checks:
This confuses me every time. The sound guys asks you to go to your loudest setting possible - so the peak gains can be set right? Then they don't seem to say - ok now go to your normal level - so the volume can be set for FOH? I can't seem to understand this process or the language used. How do you manage this process? I want to find the correct language so I can communicate this at the time? Thank you!!!!