So I just took the mp3 that went into the FB video for this song and ran it through some stuff in FL Studio (Maximus, FL Limiter, and an EQ) to try to make it sound better.
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Holy Crap. In two weeks I will be in Beijing China! Lake Effect has been invited to perform at the International Society for Music Educators conference. If you're going to be around, we perform on August 4th at 1:30 pm in the Chinese National Convention Centre Auditorium and on August 5th at 1:00 pm in the CNCC Function Hall C.
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Let me just say that this is the LAST TIME I run a cabaret show like I did this year.
The root of our problems stemmed from the fact that our two (distinct) recording systems were only capable of handling 24 tracks each. 24 tacks - 19 vocals = not enough left over for everything else. Luckily I found a few different ways to hack things together so I could use both recording systems at once.
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Whew, that was quite a tour. The first show we ended up using the house PA, which was a MONSTER! Combine HUGE amounts of bottom end with a trigger on the kick drum and you get a rockin show. The LS9 certainly made my life easy in some respects, it did hinder me at first in others. I spent nearly 2 hours on setup and test; most of which was trying to figure out what configuration we wanted to use and then figuring out why half the monitors didn't work (Protip: if the amp lights up, but the cones don't move: IT' NOT PLUGGED IN!)
When I walked in to the second show, the house PA was two TINY powered tops and no subs. I cringed at first thinking they weren't going to be powerful enough to fill the room (and saddened that I wasn't going to get the same bottom end that I had two nights previous) but after running some of my Boston tracks through them, I was convinced they were better than the mains we had brought along. The setup was relatively straightforward, but in retrospect I should have made 6 monitor mixes on the LS9 rather than 4 - I had amp space for 8 mixes, but only had the mixer setup for 4. :( A very nice show that night, but the Lake Effect portion didn't get nearly the same reaction from the crowd as the local VJ group had gotten - even though I thoroughly enjoyed LE's set better. Only in Wisconsin I guess.
tl;dr> LS9 is amazing, I want one for everyday use in VJ. Don't judge a speaker by it's size (unless it's a sub). REMEMBER TO GRAB YOUR PHONE BEFORE LEAVING A VENUE!
EDIT: And sadly, I did not manage to get any photos of myself or the setups. :(
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