I did a thing

I did a thing. Short set tonight including “The Loner” and “Parisienne Walkways”. My first time to play live. I'm nobody, small potatoes, but my Kemper Stage made me sound way better than I really am. It was a blast! This is real life. Thanks, Kemper!

Continuing to have fun, more open mics, I even learned how to play standing up. I thought I'd continue the conversation with a couple of questions. I play with backing tracks since I am Billy No-Bandmates at the moment. Now I use my iphone connected to the Kemper return and this works reasonably well however sometimes I screw up the levels and don't have an easy way to fix it mid-song. Do you have any app recommendations for this? I saw SoundCue recommended but it doesn't seem to be available on the app store anymore, looking at Stage Traxx but it doesn't seem to offer a precision on the fly mix change easily. Would you use a hardware mixer?

So, I did another thing.

Back out there playing live tonight, first time adding Empty Rooms to my set, I did a super-long extended version (think Isstadion Stockholm 1987) - here's an excerpt of the first solo, using the Choptones Empty87 rig. I really wanted to make my Kemper Player work, but still I can't make it sound like my stage yet. My performance needs some work, I'm still a beginner and only started playing live in February, but it's such a joy to play. iPhone audio, yeah, it's a bit sucky, but it was fun. https://youtu.be/GRgiZ2aywSg