JBlog

Played my first gig with Guido’s project this past Friday night, along with Squaring the Circle and Brother Embassy. Only having rehearsed with the group twice, I was a little nervous about how well it would go over, but I think everything came together nicely. I’m supposed to be picking up audio of the show and I will post a link to a song if any of them sound OK, but it’s a board recording so it’s going to sound pretty unbalanced.

I wonder about whether it would work to get a couple of decent condenser mics to record the room in the future. Seems like it would give you a better sense of what was actually going on in the room while playing. The board mix, while it sounds good if you’re listening live, is very unbalanced because not everything needs to be boosted as much as other things. For example, board mixes tend to be very vocal-heavy compared to the drums because of their relative need to be amplified.

Two 90s Daughter gigs coming up in December. The first, on December 18, is at Fatman’s Warehouse in Danville. We’ll have another a week later on December 26 in Champaign at the Cowboy Monkey.