Sound check like a boss

deefstes · 2013-01-30T10:51:21+00:00

OK, so I've been curious about this for a while but was never sure how to ask so I'll just get it out and make a fool of myself. ? It seems you can tell immediately if a guy testing a microphone knows what he's doing because he just repeats "one two, one two" over and over. The rest of us wannabes are usually like "Is this thing on? Can you hear me? Testing, testing, one, two, three. One, two, three. One two three four five six seven. Is it working?" Then blows into the mic, then spits a few times on the mic and perhaps even tap it with the finger a couple of times. So I have to ask; Is there a particular reason that the guys who know their stuff just use those two words, "one" and "two"? Is it that these two words are sufficient to test the entire acoustic range and phoneme combinations that a sound engineer is interested in hearing when setting up the balance? What is so terrible about the word "three" that it is never used? I know, it's a silly question but I won't lie, I find it almost difficult to start counting from one and then arrest the counting before I get to three. Everything in me wants to continue at least to three. Am I alone in fighting this inner struggle? ???

Bob-Dubery

ShreddySmurf wrote
X-rated Bob wrote
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Now with 18.7% more Richard Thompson! ?

I'd better get busy on that percentage.

deefstes

ShreddySmurf wrote
X-rated Bob wrote
Oh.....
10,000 posts!

Now with 18.7% more Richard Thompson! ?

? ? ?

studmissile

Is this thing working, is this thing on!

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tiller

I would say it's a custom which developed years ago. Just like you're greeting another person with your right hand ?

IceCreamMan

i would think words with the letter P or B would be used as well as these letters result in different "air" patterns from the mouth ....

DDR4LYF

ShreddySmurf wrote "Three shall be the number though shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be...3. 4 Shalt thou not count, neither count thou 2, excepting that thou then proceed'st to 3. 5 is right out!"

HAHAHA! Love that movie!!!

Jack-Flash-Jr

Enough about the sound check, how was the gig Deeftes?

deefstes

Jack Flash Jr wrote Enough about the sound check, how was the gig Deeftes?

Haha. No gig, but let me tell you, I've been repeating "one two, one two" into my hair brush incessantly over the last week or so. You should have seen me, I was looking like a boss ?

I do have a gig (the word "gig" being used in the loosest sense of the word) on the 21st of Feb when I'm doing a set at the TJ's Acoustic Club music night. I'll be sure to put my newly acquired skills to use ?

Jack-Flash-Jr

Ahhh... I thought that one already happened. Get Bob to record a video clip for us! Have fun ?

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