Obviously, I know little about sound. I'm always anxious about more important gigs when bandmates are playing with me instead of me being solo.

Saturday, I get to the bar and they have a sound man hired since three acts are playing that night! So, I'm thinking, hurrah, finally someone who can take over and do it right through a nice system.

EDIT: I forgot to add that it was me with KB, guitar, another guy on guitar and another guy playing either steel guitar or fiddle.

He is running everything through direct boxes. He said One for your guitar... do you want one or two for your keyboard? I said two. After all was set up, he only had one box left. He said No problem, just go through the L/R out. I told him I don't know what I'm talking about but wouldn't the keyboard be far better going out stereo? Especially since my keyboard would be the bulk of the sound, with us playing over my styles and midis.

Bottom line is there was no more box to be found. He was doing sound next door for their other club as well. I don't know what the guy got paid but he had a shipload of equipment. So, I did it going out to one box. It was okay. People said it sounded good. But... there were times we struggled to hear the drums, especially, on some songs.

Makes me wonder how much better it would have been with two direct boxes. I have seen it where it was DRAMATIC when players went out through stereo outs instead of mono. Is this always so superior or what's up with this?

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Bill
Yamaha PSR2000

[This message has been edited by SemiLiveMusic (edited 11-19-2006).]