Stage left, or is it right?
Perhaps you real giggin' musicians out there might know?
When referring to stage left or right, is it from the performers pov or the audience pov? Or is it always relative to the pov?
So if your on stage and say \"hey, I lost my right mon.\" Do you really mean the left, cuz that is how the sound guy would be veiwing it from out in the audience?
When referring to stage left or right, is it from the performers pov or the audience pov? Or is it always relative to the pov?
So if your on stage and say \"hey, I lost my right mon.\" Do you really mean the left, cuz that is how the sound guy would be veiwing it from out in the audience?
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Up stage is to the back of the stage and down stage is closer to the audience.
House left is the audiences left and house right is the audiences right.
(If you want to know something, don't ask the talent, ask the stage hands) :P
Ok.. I'm am on stage and say to the sound guy.. hows that right main? I should really say 'Hows that house left sound?'. Or just let him do the inversion math and figure out what I'm talking about?
Did Snagglepuss ever say \"Exit house left!\". :?:
Better yet, hire 'tou.
You can always point to monitor thats not working and let stagehands figure it out.
I know, I'm not much help.
Do you want me to come up on the stage and insert my foot in your a$$? :P
Starting with the house left butt cheek, (stage right) and work all the way over to the house right butt cheek! (stage left)
Lets just say...there will be the footing of your a$$ all over center stage!! :P
Just as long as it appears to be part of the stage show. Perhaps during the cover of \" Ear ache my Eye\", the crowd will love it! :twisted: :twisted:
Like with your own guy, you just have to decide how they want to work. Sound guys don't like being told how to do their job, but if you are respectful and discuss a good sound/stage plan, you'll get off on the right foot.
Make an input list, that will help your sound engineer, like kick, snare, high tom, low tom, overhead left, overhead right, JSX Peavey (amp1), Fender Twin (amp2), Bass DI, Bass mic, Lead vocal (stage right), BGV (stage left), etc.
Draw a sketch of your stage plot, including your drums, and where you want the vocal mics. Label the inputs on the stage plot to correspond with your input list.
You want to hear yourself and the core elements of the band. Ask for more or less monitor, if that's what you need. Don't turn your guitar amp up more than you need for good tone. You are hurting yourself if you do, especially if you get a \"sound pig\" like gtaus discribed. Keep your amp moderate levels, and you will hear your monitor mix better, and the sound guy will be able to make you sound better.
You want your FOH mix to highlight the lead vocal, and the kick and snare drum clear and loud. If you get these balanced, you can get the rest of the mix sounding good. That's going to require someone you trust out in the house for the sound check. You need the house to hear the vocals clearly more than anything else.
stage wedges are an endangered species ...said IEM
Yeah, we just point to the monitor so our soundguy does not get too confused. Right? Left? After a couple pitchers of beer he's lucky to be still sitting in the chair. If there are good looking women running free in the club, we might have to just do without any tweaking of our monitors at all until we find him. (Actually happened once).
More seriously, we just tag the monitors with the name of the band member on the board.
All you talented guys are sooooooo complex.
When I was a stagehand rookie, my most important job was to mark all the talents shoes with a large L .... R.
That was so the sound check would go faster.
All this did was create a new sub-genre, called Shoegazers.