Christian LeBlanc wrote:For the live band that plays on the Sunday - will they have keyboards? There's a thread in these forums about how hard they can be to mix live sometimes, and I think it might be fun to illustrate "how-to."
Don't know who the "band" will be yet so instrumentation is up in the air right now.
Christian LeBlanc wrote:As fun as smuggling in a hardware vocoder to patch into the mixing board would be, I'm guessing that bringing gear from home is frowned upon, right? Because if one person wanted to do it, everyone would etc etc...plus, figuring out some gear might take away from what you're trying to do, you don't know if it's reliable, etc etc.
Something like which you speak is such a specialized kind of thing, I can't spend too much time on stuff like that. You kind of answered your own question, and correctly I might add.
Christian LeBlanc wrote:But that raises another question: will we have access to effects for the band on Sunday? I'd love to play around with things like thickening the guitar via a short delay, that kind of thing.
Yes. Playing around with effects can and will happen. Know that in a live setting, things like "thickening" via use of delay is pretty advanced mixing technique and is above the level of most participants of this event. Subtle technique is non existent in the overwhelming majority of live situations that people taking this course will work in.
Christian LeBlanc wrote:Would impedance be covered, as well?
Not in depth.
Christian LeBlanc wrote:And I'd love it if I could come out of this knowing what my amp and cab sims at home should sound like :) Would there be some illustration of how guitar -> distortion pedals -> direct to computer or soundboard, sounds compared to guitar -> distortion pedals -> guitar amp and cabinet -> microphone -> computer or soundboard?
Although this course will benefit gear curious musicians, it's focus is on the sound systems and setups used and not the instruments and gear associated directly with said instruments. That being said, it is an open discussion, and lots of things come up during the course of events. It just isn't the focus.
If I thought there would be a demand for a more advanced course where we could spend that much time on stuff like you ask, I would be all over putting together another program. The one coming up is something that has outdone my expectations for people being interested in, and the degree to which people have enjoyed participating in. Who knows.