Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Gig tomorrow!
Joey Ultra have a gig tomorrow, at the 3Bs in Reading. We'll probably play at about 10ish and before that some of our showbiz friends will be playing some excellent acoustic music to entertain you. If any of them actually turn up. To be honest, if you came to watch and brought a guitar you'd probably get to play!
I'm hoping that us taking time off gigs (since August) to concentrate on rehearsing and getting better is going to pay off. It sounded brilliant in rehearsal last night, but you never know what'll happen in an actual gig situation. Normally all my gear breaks and I have a nightmare.
I've had tons of technical difficulties at recent gigs. This time rather than transport my ridiculously big 4*12 speaker and head to a tiny pub I decided to recover my old Carlsbro amplifier from my little brother and see how it sounded. I haven't used it since I got my new guitar (about 5 years ago) and my English Muff'n distortion pedal. Surprisingly it sounds really good. I guess the blame for it sounding so bad previously has to go to my old guitar.
For the first time in ages yesterday I could actually hear what I was playing over the rest of the band. Not in terms of loudness, but clarity. The Line-6 amps in the rehearsal room are very adequate in terms of being flexible and convenient, but they do tend to sound muddy and a bit farty.
I guess this means people will be able to hear all my mistakes clearly. Woo!
I'm hoping that us taking time off gigs (since August) to concentrate on rehearsing and getting better is going to pay off. It sounded brilliant in rehearsal last night, but you never know what'll happen in an actual gig situation. Normally all my gear breaks and I have a nightmare.
I've had tons of technical difficulties at recent gigs. This time rather than transport my ridiculously big 4*12 speaker and head to a tiny pub I decided to recover my old Carlsbro amplifier from my little brother and see how it sounded. I haven't used it since I got my new guitar (about 5 years ago) and my English Muff'n distortion pedal. Surprisingly it sounds really good. I guess the blame for it sounding so bad previously has to go to my old guitar.
For the first time in ages yesterday I could actually hear what I was playing over the rest of the band. Not in terms of loudness, but clarity. The Line-6 amps in the rehearsal room are very adequate in terms of being flexible and convenient, but they do tend to sound muddy and a bit farty.
I guess this means people will be able to hear all my mistakes clearly. Woo!
Labels: gig, Joey Ultra
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