Your situation

• You’re in a band.  You’ve collectively got some gear, but it’s either not enough, or incompatible with each other. Or you can use it all by scrounging stuff and borrowing stuff to do you (ir-)regular weekend gig.

What I’d do

• Talk to you about your experience, your genre, your instrumentation, your onstage needs (who needs what – and how badly – and for what portions of your show).

• Provide sufficient PA equipment to make you louder – appropriate for the space you’d be performing in.

How I’d do it

• I’ve got connections.  I’ve got gear.  I’ve got experience.

What I’d need

• Early detailed communication.

• Commitment that the gig will actually happen when it’s scheduled to happen.

• A Rider – i.e.  a written list of things you need, which we would go over together to sort out what’s possible.

• Contact information for your band and for someone at the venue.

• Time at the venue – enough to load in and set up gear in a reasonable timeframe prior to sound check, and enough to safely load everything out at the end of the event.

What you’ll get

• High quality sound that will fill a room.

• A decent mix, so that everyone is heard at the appropriate times, but no one is drowned out, and no one is unduly overpowering anyone else in the mix.

• A couple of monitor mixes so your members can hear each other sufficiently.

What you won’t get

• A zillion watts of pure power that rivals a jet engine on steroids.

• A recording contract (well, not from me).

• 300% more groupies.

• An armada of stagehands or roadies.

• Mindless ego boosts.

• Pyrotechnics.

• Backline gear – you’ll have to bring your own.