If you want to know how I did it, here's the link to my membership videos: https://youtu.be/i_my36qtVSM?si=zSl-KDPbYn08mONB
Fast forward to the gig. I was very excited. The organiser planned it very well. The challenge now is the road closure because of the marathon going to the venue. Our venue was at Itchen Bridge Woolston and by the barrier/toll gate. My son came with me that day. We commuted so it wasnt a problem. And the stage was just right in front of Woolston train station.
When we arrived, Rock Choir Southampton was already rockin it and you can hear the cheers and the music from the train station. We immediately went there and waited for my bandmates. Then, when Sherwin arrived, just few minutes later, Karl approached us because he's in charge of the sound system as well as they will be performing with his band, Davey Jones Locker. Anyways, he said to us to start setting up on stage while the Rock Choir were performing. Then soon enough all of our band members arrived.
There's Mr. Rhino jamming along to the music of Rock Choir. We were busy on stage setting up and Karl was helping us with our sounds. Then it was time for our set. We had a quick soundcheck just to hear ourselves from the monitor on stage and for Karl to test our sound in front of the house speakers. Then we were good to go.
Everyone was busy, the participants running under the heat of the sun. It was quite warm that day but at least there's breeze because they were on the bridge. The crowd cheering and then the volunteers and the organisers busy with the event.
We just crack on with our songs. The unfortunate thing happened. I snapped one of my strings on our second or third song. The show must go on, so we just continued playing and then after that one another string snapped again. So I was left with just 4 strings. We still continued until it was our last song and on the intro, I really needed a complete set of strings so we swapped guitars with our rhythm guitarist.
And that's what happened that day. We stayed for Davey Jones Locker and they're amazing. Rockin the stage and high energy band. Mr. Rhino pass by again and dance to Davey Jones Locker songs. It was amazing day for us.
So, Im using my zoom G1four guitar processor and directly plugged into the mixer. The bass was plugged straight the mixer and then the drums goes to the drum monitor then lineout to the mixer. We were using an electronic drumkit. The electric guitar and acoustic of Rob goes to his amp. So he got a Laney acoustic amp with a DI out. So that's easy. We just used the DI out and into the mixer. His electric guitar goes to his Boss Katana 50W which doesnt have a lineout. So we mic'd it and that's the only one that was mic'd in during our session the rest were plugged straight to the mixer.
Also we used the PA speakers as our monitor and the only one who's using the headset to monitor our recording was Sherwin. I let him use my wireless in-ear monitor which I bought from TEMU and it's a Wave WP-10 wireless in-ear monitor. So he can hear our sound and mix it properly. He asked me to adjust from the main mixer which one needed boosting. It was mostly the vocals and he finds that his bass was loud so he kept asking me to turn it down a bit.
Then he did his magic from his home and added/tweaked it and that's the result of our improvised recording session at Planet Sound Rehearsal Studios.
I did enjoy restoring and playing this guitar but had to return it to the owner so yeah it was a short and sweet encounter.
Here's the sound demo of this guitar. Hope you like it. Enjoy!
