Sunday, July 20, 2008

"Locos"

Hello Fellow Bloggers...

Well, it's about 1:30am, I just took a shower and am about ready to hit the sack. I am dead tired. Today I got a really cool opportunity to help out my brother in law, Carlos with a gig he had today. You see Carlos is the sound engineer for a local latin/funk/reggae/cumbia band called "Locos por Juana". He goes everywhere with them. He has been to Virginia, New York, L.A. and many other places. Thankfully, I get to help him out sometimes when he has local events with the band and today they had an showcase event at the Seminole Hard Rock. The band is signed with Universal and it was a private event with about 5 really good bands. Actually this was the first time a Latin band is invited to play at this type of showcase event for Universal so it really was awesome to be able to be there. It wasn't too long of a set and I got to mix the last 2 songs (see video below). For the most part, however, I served as guitar/bass tech and helped with set up. 

"Locos por Juana" has gained popularity really quickly and they have worked hard to earn it. They are featured artists on MySpace Latino, have been featured on MTV TRES and were even nominated for a latin grammy last year. 

check them out here
 

Me Mixing

Here is the Rig we used

1 comments:

Carlos Arellano said...

Things to remember:
1) Use Tube amps for guitar and bass. No Pods ever!!
2) Please!! Don't use auxes to feed the subs, that's why we have crossovers. It will ruin your mix!! Subs reproduce up to 250Hz and even the hi hat has frequencies up to 100Hz, if you don't believe me try it on Pro Tools with a HPF.
3) Reverb on the snare, toms, vocals and brass.
4) ALWAYS PAN!!!!!!! Mono died in the 40's....
5) 3 dB of RMS Compression on master bus, 2:1 ratio. slow attack and slow release.
6) Don't do drugs, you will hear things out of phase.
7) No drinks on the board.
8) Always remember Gordon.
9) Reverse the phase on the bottom snare mic.
10) Use large diaphragm condensers for drums overheads.
11) Listen to the monitor mixes you are doing with the headphones, send the whole band to all monitors just make the main instrument louder, if you don't do this the stage will sound empty.
12) DO NOT CALL ME, FIGURE IT OUT.