Do they adjust guitar and bass amps during show?

[ReflectedLight]

Just curious if they keep the amps on both sides at a set level during the show, or maybe they have some Rush personnel in the distance to dictate if the guitar or bass be turned up or down.

The reason I ask is, there were a few songs where I had a hard time hearing Alex's guitar. Like it could have been turned up a few notches.

 

[-D-RocK-]

My guess is that the guy working the mixing board looks after all that.

I noticed the guitars were a little thin for the first few songs of the Calgary show.

[dtrice]

I think the techs/FOH adjusts the volume, but with the band's imput. For example, in Dallas when Limelight started Alex's guitar was a little too low so he motioned to his tech to on stage (get it?) and adjust it. Sometimes they can be too loud. For Example, when I saw them on the R30 tour during RTB Alex's (maybe the band as a whole) was way too loud, so he kept signaling (from reading his lips he threw in a few colorful metaphors) to turn down. The venue's P.A. was clipping badly (this also happened when I saw them 3 weeks ago.) and so Alex's guitar ended up dropping out completely from the P.A. signal.

[Brewtus]

the guitar sound was amazing i'm sure, if i could have only heard it....geddy's bass was really squashing the guitar sound....way too loud.

[dakota2112]

QUOTE (dtrice @ Aug 31 2007, 03:23 PM)

The venue's P.A. was clipping badly (this also happened when I saw them 3 weeks ago.)

I thought they subcontract their own PA and bring it along with them to each show... ?

[moonstar]

QUOTE (Brewtus @ Aug 31 2007, 07:57 PM)

the guitar sound was amazing i'm sure, if i could have only heard it....geddy's bass was really squashing the guitar sound....way too loud.

I thought the same thing at the Detroit show.