Mixing acoustic / electric instruments

Subject: RE: Mixing acoustic / electric instruments
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 Aug 12 - 01:46 PM

oops.. should be:

"That's easy straightforward way I'd mix & balance an informal sesion of singers, acoustic & electric players
sat in a friendly arrangement aroungd pub tables
or mini stage..."


BTW, in such a basic practical set up, it'd probably actually be easier to control & limit the sound level of an electric musician,
than any over-enthusiastic egocentric acoustic basher, bellower, squeezer & scraper...

Subject: RE: Mixing acoustic / electric instruments
From: GUEST,nobody in particular
Date: 26 Aug 12 - 05:35 PM

Electric vs. acoustic?? Get real! Every recording you have ever heard in your life was done with electronics, or converting an acoustic sound into an electric signal. Some electric sounds are excellent, some not, it's up to the player. Some acoustic players make acoustics an embarrassment, and can't play worth a hill of beans, so don't try to sell anyone on your 'purist rap', I think you are just too lazy to learn a new trick. Besides, once you pick up an instrument, and begin to make a noise coming out of it, you are dealing with SOUND, study sound, then craft it! anyway you can !!

Subject: RE: Mixing acoustic / electric instruments
From: Jeremiah McCaw
Date: 01 Sep 12 - 11:49 AM

"Play with your ears". Great phrase, perfectly descriptive.

In a stage situation you'll always find electric guitarists who insist on playing through their amps ("It's my sound, man."). One solution is to tell them they can only use their amps if they're in front of them, pointed back and up, monitor-style; and have the amp mic'd or plugged into the system itself.

Two phrases I use when trying to gain cooperation: "too loud for the mix" and "too loud for the room".