Bar & Club Bar Gig Report 4/2/2010

[ahoustondj]

I also want to make it clear I am not asking with any ill intent as I am doing some pub gigs now and though will likely not take in a huge system for a pub like what you bring, I wonder about these sort of details as I havent provided sound at such a venue.

Just make sure that you have Club Style sound especially if dancing is involved. Last thing you want to do is turn up high volumes just to get coverage.
It then becomes loud and blaring and speakers start sounding like crap. If it is just a small pub mostly for listening while drinking music, then that is different.

 

[Jon Tuck]

sort of interesting as a neighborhood pub can be fairly big but at the end of the day they want to keep it at levels to create atmosphere and yet enough to entice dancing in the small dancing area. Roughly 10X 18 area. The typical system will be a pair of Mackie tops and a LS800 sub.

 

[ahoustondj]

sort of interesting as a neighborhood pub can be fairly big but at the end of the day they want to keep it at levels to create atmosphere and yet enough to entice dancing in the small dancing area. Roughly 10X 18 area. The typical system will be a pair of Mackie tops and a LS800 sub.

You gauge the equipment needed by the size of the interior not the dance floor area. This is where a lot of DJs make the mistake!
You can then have "fill" without much effort. Blaring Noise carries!

 

[Jon Tuck]

Anyhow I know what sounds good and what doesnt. Exhibit A the pics Precision shared. Huge amount of equipment but not set properly, sounded like Azz. The system you bring must sound the best ever. You seem to know how to tune a room. Good show. Like using the Behringer board you get the best out of what ya got.

 

[ahoustondj]

Anyhow I know what sounds good and what doesnt. Exhibit A the pics Precision shared. Huge amount of equipment but not set properly, sounded like Azz. The system you bring must sound the best ever. You seem to know how to tune a room. Good show. Like using the Behringer board you get the best out of what ya got.

Yep, sometimes overkill can also be a detriment. The guy at Precision's bar obviously had the right gear (Maybe a bit too much speakers) but the wrong settings.

I have still yet to master the perfect balance between my mikes to C/L and the Mackie settings. There are so many DB in/out bypass/boost switches between those two. It is getting better though.

this coming Friday I plan on using either three way configuration and or adding two more scoops to the equation.

 

[DannyGKaraoke]

Oh it gets requested to be played but, not by singers who want to sing it... that's what I meant.

Most of the singers in my area don't have enough rhythm to sing that song... if you call it singing. You know your basic white man's disease

Hey wait a minute I thought I was the only one to use that phrase. I use it when asked if I can dance. I tell 'em I'm terminally white.

 

[ahoustondj]

Hey wait a minute I thought I was the only one to use that phrase. I use it when asked if I can dance. I tell 'em I'm terminally white.

We have a lot of white girls and guys that sing Karaoke rap songs at my club. They sure do get the attention of all when they hit the stage. I have to say, most of them do a very good job of it. Its even funnier when some of the phrases in the song have the word ni**er! They whisper it real fast, then everyone usually bust out laughing.