What do you send your sound engineer for a live gig?
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zaubertuba
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 What do you send your sound engineer for a live gig? Do you have him mic your cabs? Send him separate DI/Effected signals?
What do you do to get your sound to FOH?
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Olivier
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What do you send your sound engineer for a live gig? I go direct. Bass side without any effect, melody side through a zoom pedal for some discreet reverb and delay. I ask the soundman to pan both channels in the middle. He gives me the stick and voice (I sing) in the monitors. A few indications on eq and stick/voice balance, and I'm ready to go.
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Brett Bottomley
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Re: What do you send your sound engineer for a live gig? If it's a big gig (pa wise) I send my final processed outs to a direct box before i go into my power amp. Most sound guys really appreciate having an easy feed right into the board.
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robmartino
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Re: What do you send your sound engineer for a live gig? As little as possible.  If the venue is big enough and has a PA, just one XLR out from my Fishman SA220 which is a mix of everything, post-effects. If I can get away with it I prefer just my Fishman- it sounds better than the PAs in most places I've played. Most sound engineers have never mixed a Stick so I prefer to leave as many variables as possible out of the equation and recommend they run things as flat as possible (i.e. not too bass-boomy or bright).
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greg
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Re: What do you send your sound engineer for a live gig? If it's someone I've never worked with before, I find out his/her name, and send a beer and my thanks from the stage during the set.
Additionally, it's 1 XLR mono mix if the house is mono, and L R XLRs if it's stereo. If it's stereo I ask for the channel I'm not monitoring out of my single stage cabinet to come back in the monitors, that way I get the stereo spread and they can pan my left/right signals in the house.
Also, I make sure there's no high pass filter on the channel, and that there's no phantom power coming back into my XLR out, as that can fry many outputs from rack gear.
The safest thing to do is to use a direct box.
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heartstrings
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Re: What do you send your sound engineer for a live gig? One direct output (post EQ and FX) from my Fishman Soloamp. Ditto for Mark. Done 
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Per Boysen
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Re: What do you send your sound engineer for a live gig? A stereo line feed; i.e. two mono cables to be panned left/right. My rig is a laptop with an RME Fireface400 audio interface and I do all my effect processing and mixing of melody and bass side "in the box". Here's a typical line recording of my direct stereo line out: http://soundcloud.com/pboy/sg12-clinic-clip-may22-2011
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