From the course: Live Sound Engineering Techniques: On Tour with Rush

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Communicating with Geddy, Alex, and Neil during the show

Communicating with Geddy, Alex, and Neil during the show

From the course: Live Sound Engineering Techniques: On Tour with Rush

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Communicating with Geddy, Alex, and Neil during the show

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Through the use of snapshots we can have the band have a more pleasant experience performing because they know that when it comes to this particular section of song, they're not going to have to look at me and go, more guitar, more guitar, because the comptuer knows how to do it. It's already set. And, and we can go to a song and they say hey, during this part of this song I want this to happen. With this band if they'res an issue I can tell by their face. I've done almost 600 shows with these guys. I can tell when Ged's struggling vocally. We have one cue. He taps the top of his head, that tells me that he wants more high end on his vocal. It hasn't happened much this tour, but he'll occasionally give me a really quick head jerk. That's a cue that he wants his vocal up. Everything else, it's been so well maintained through the programming that we've spent a lot of time doing, that we don't really have a lot of issues with that. You know, the samples come up when the samples are…

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