Good Morning Community,
I played a "living room gig", last Saturday. The idea was to record/ film the session to produce promo material. Soundcheck went great with my Kemper PowerHead (latest firmware). Then we had an hour free time before the performance.
We started playing and with the first note I realized something isn´t working as expected. All of my clean sounds were much to quiet, all distorted sound had less distortion and all effects were not as prominent as intended - that was the case with all performances I used throughout the gig. Plus, I had to play my guitar turned to the right side, whenever I played the guitar in front of my body, or turned it to the left, there was a crackle sneaking into the sounds. I had no choice but to play the entire show (120 Min.) in the best possible position.
I identified 3 to 4 sounds that were still the best among the bad and used them as good as possible, even if they were spreaded over several performances. Step-Dance Nightmare. But please remember: we got filmed live and it just had to work in some way. I managed to restart the Kemper during an extended intro section but it didn´t help me. I´m pretty sure the Kemper was the reliable workhorse in that scenario - as always.
Setup:
Guitar > Cable > Kemper > Main Out (Stereo) via Jack Plugs > PA
(We´re/ I´m running that setup for years and never had any issue.)
Ok, long story short. I took notes afterwards about all the differences I could identify. I could spot two changes between soundcheck and show.
1) The film crew had set up their equipment in the meantime: Four cameras, room mics, power supply and cables criss-crossing everywhere.
2) The host had set up small lamps everywhere in the room for indirect lighting. One lamp drew its power from the same sub-distribution as my Kemper Powerhead.
(This lamp was standing on the left - in front of me (10 o´clock))
I would be very happy if you could support me with your knowledge so that something like this does not happen again.
I will not be satisfied with the recordings we made and besides that the band spent a lot of money for nothing ...
Thank you so much!
-stenson