Alex Wray

Terry_42, post: 32890, member: 1843 wrote: Soundproofing a room is either:
– Insanely Expensive
or
– Insanely much work

Basically you have to build a room inside your room, with a wooden frame that is “floating” on rubber spacings on the outside room. Then fill the whole thing with isolating materials and drywall it again. And if you do any number of small things wrong, your soundproofing goes out the window…

I mean i don’t mind putting in effort (I put the drywall up myself, and most of the insulation when it was first built), but just reducing mostly the bass thump would be okay, because everything else seems to be contained as long as the doors are closed

Bunyip, post: 32216, member: 2464 wrote: In an ideal world, you’d have time practicing with your controller before doing a live gig. But I also think when opportunity strikes, sometimes you gotta just go for it. Remember, the main thing is song selection. Dayvue is right. If youre not doing a bunch of snappy mixing tricks, I don’t think that will be a problem to the punters. They’re there to drink and hang out with their friend in a chill atmosphere, not see you going the Jesus pose. Just focus on getting your music right. If you knock the residency back you never know, they may just ask the next guy to do it and then you’ve lost this golden opportunity.

You’re also correct, and my controller got dropped off today so I can really start to practice

Tony Youll, post: 32180, member: 577 wrote: if you ask me. It looks like you’ve gotten too deep, too quick. Getting the basics down is worlds away from having a residency. You have alot of things to look into; Crowd reading, building a good song selection, learning the tech.

I envy you that you’ve got this opportunity, but if you want my person opinion, I’d take a step back and wait till you get your kit in, spend some time with it, then move into getting that residency. If they were so happy to snap you up now, whats to say they wont take you in a month or two.

I apologise if any of this sounds harsh or blunt, but its 4:42am and I may not be thinking straight haha.

To be honest, I kinda agree with that. At last I’ll have a gig waiting for me once I’ve picked up some experience

Actually, that was one of the first things i bought. I’ve been watching it, and its really good, but its just not as effective without the controller in front of you to follow along with