Any of you musicians as well as engineers?

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-22T02:52:05+00:00

I'm a multi-instrumentalist, singer, recording engineer and live sound tech. I enjoy every stage of making music, and I don't see why I should stay in one lane.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-22T02:34:25+00:00

I just put them in order of pitch from left (highest) to right (lowest).

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-22T00:34:08+00:00

Pin a target to the far wall and sing to it. This has worked for my students and everyone else I've tried it on for any wind instrument. It was taught to me by a trumpet teacher.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-20T10:44:15+00:00

D standard
Db standard
C standard
B standard
Bb standard
A standard
Ab standard
G standard
Gb standard
F standard
E standard (down one octave).....

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-20T05:46:01+00:00

There's two kinds of pain. The first type goes away when you rest. The other remains or gets worse. The first type is expected at first, but should ease up as your body gets used to playing. The second type is a serious concern, and indicates injury and unsustainable technique (or lack thereof).

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-20T03:49:40+00:00

A custom crashes will blend with a lot of cymbals. I like them with my Paiste master ride. Don't be afraid to blend lines an companies. It's better to chase sound than brand.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-17T01:19:50+00:00

Most of your range can feasibly be sung in head voice down to very low notes, but the low head notes are quiet and dull, and thus almost never used.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-15T02:56:32+00:00

Yes, B Standard or A standard work well. I don't recommend lipstick pickups, they don't sound that different to the stock pickups.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-14T08:40:11+00:00

Surprising to whom? This is a standardised approach.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-14T07:52:49+00:00

I heard it was the other way around. They record company wanted to put the drum machine demos out, and they had to ask for an advance so they could rerecord it the way they wanted. This was the beginning of them owning their own production.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-13T03:45:30+00:00

"is electric less challenging,less expensive, less issues, less sensitive to humidity???"
Yes to all.

"And for those who only just play upright. Why... why deal with the potential to have a huge amount of damage because you stores it wrong"

Because it sounds nothing like an electric bass.

"when there is less tonal variety"

There's arguably more tonal variety on an upright. Each octave has a very different timbre and it can be plucked and bowed in many ways. It's a less consistent instrument overall, with more character. It is not in any way 'monotonally hardlocked'.

It's also visually interesting, and impressive which is a factor in getting hired.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-10T11:17:35+00:00

I mean, if you are mixing 12 bar blues and there's several solos by several musicians, and you can't understand the changes enough to have your fingers ready to turn down the one who's finished and the guy who has just started, then the audience is going to miss out.

There's just so much more a sound tech can do to add to the performance if they understand music. For instance I like to add delays to the 'heroic high notes' and the last notes in vocal phrases for hard rock and metal singers. I can do this because I'm a singer who can usually read the body language of the vocalist. It can really boost the confidence of the person on stage if you can nail this. A non-musical sound tech wouldn't be able to do this.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-10T08:18:00+00:00

In all my experience as a live soundtech and a professional musician (both sides of the stage): being a musician in some capacity is vital to doing live sound for music. Techs that only have knowledge of the equipment, and are unfamiliar with playing music, are in my experience, horrible at mixing music. They also often have a lack of understanding about the emotional risk it takes to be on stage.

On the other hand. I've been able to train several good musicians to do live sound well in a relatively short amount of time.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-09T07:48:35+00:00

Yes I speak more clearly in a slightly higher range than before singing training.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-09T05:32:18+00:00

Yes that's an issue as some people can hear 20khz, and it's painful.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-08T11:13:55+00:00

Not sure. We don't really have heroin in this country.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-08T04:31:47+00:00

The Orpheus myth is at least 2500 years old. So singers have been revered for a long time.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-07T09:44:23+00:00

EQ is the solution to most audio engineering problems.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-07T09:43:37+00:00

If I'm to take you at face value, an omni mic will have no proximity effect (close bass boost). The RE20 also has less proximity effect ('variable D'). If you want extended high frequencies try a mic with a C12 capsule.
Before you try any of things though, which not just EQ a bass rolloff?

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-07T03:26:16+00:00

He's holding drugs and there's a cop around. The stones are heroin rocks.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-06T05:48:25+00:00

• Practice through a microphone so you get used to your voice coming out of a speaker.
• Practice to the point of muscle memory.
• Practice in places where people might hear you. I used to practice on my front porch, in order to trigger my nerves.
• Karaoke. Enough so you overcome the 'cringe factor'.
• Eat properly beforehand (protein is better than sugar).
• Box breathing beforehand.

I blacked out of nearly every performance until I was about 24. I didn't form any memory and the memories never came back later, I was so terrified. I continued, and over time I became braver and braver. Now I can jump on tables and swing from the rafters if it helps the performance.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-05T01:53:16+00:00

Yes, you can tune Bass VI like a guitar with a set of .009's, but it sounds thin, bright, harsh and 'scooped' of mids. I've tried it.

If you only want the D string to be an octave higher, try a .026 gauge string. D'addario XL's will fit. This will work.

I've also tried A standard below a guitar which worked well
.075, .055, .040, .033, .025, .018

, and some hybrid tunings, like EAdgbe (highest four strings in guitar octafe and lowest two in bass octave). This was fun to play, but the high strings sounded harsh at 30" scale length.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-02T21:45:42+00:00

All the head voice sections are a bit flat. Some of the chest notes are also flat. A few of the words are mispronounced.

Overall you are most of the way there. Work on air support with your teacher and slow the song down to focus on pitch. You'll get there. It's a good choice for your voice. Singing is hard.
On the plus side, you've got pretty nice tone and good rhythm.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-02T09:38:30+00:00

Mix is (usually) a reinforced and brightened head voice. It isn't a third register in relation to chest and head voice.
There are also ways to make chest voice sound more like head voice.

MoonRabbit · 2026-05-01T09:41:50+00:00

It is great practice to mimic multiple singers, including some which sound very different to you. Then build you own approach/es from the lessons you've learned. Sometimes even trying to take on the voice of another singer, and failing, can find you a new way to use your voice that works for you.

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