AW: Engineering Live Loopers

["Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill" <rs@moinlabs.de>]

> I'm a front of house sound engineer as well as using live 
> looping in my own music. I've engineered live loopers before 
> and wondered how people set up their outputs to the sound 
> engineer, if you're lucky enough to have one at your gigs. 

I send a (stereo) pair of XLRs to the mains. Having separate outs seems
dangerous to me - you might end up having a track you silently want to loop
coming through the FOH.
Monitoring for me is a pair of earplugs, connected to my setup. I prefer 
not
to have monitor speakers onstage.

(This "no monitor speakers onstage" actually resulted from my experiences
with my Eclectic Blah outfit. For reasons of minimizing crosstalk into
microphones, I gave that "as few sound sources as possible" rule - meaning
inear/can monitoring and no instrument amps onstage. The result: playing is
soooo much less tiring. And horn players can hear themselves even when not
playing fortissimo possibile. Highly recommended).

        Rainer