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Gig Gab – The Working Musician’s Podcast

Welcome to Gig Gab—the podcast sanctuary for working musicians and anyone fascinated by the vibrant, often unseen world behind every note played on stage. Whether you’re a musician, a member of the crew, or just someone who loves peeking behind the curtain to discover the secrets of live performances, you’ve found your tribe.

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Latest Episodes:

Image of iPhone with Streaming, money, Payscale, Music Licensing and Toys. Gig Gab 256 — Payscale, Licensing, and Toys May 18, 2020
Show notes

Have you had YouTube or Facebook mute the songs on your stream because of copyright claims? There might be something you can do about it! Paul and Dave talk through their experiences with navigating these waters, and even share how you can make money playing your own songs from the various rights management companies, too!

What are your thoughts about playing out this summer? Are you—and your bandmates—going to experiment with any socially-distanced gigs? What’s that going to look like?

And finally: toys. Your two favorite weekend warriors are cooped up just like you are, and they’ve been upping their game (and expenditures!) all in the interest of serving you, dear listener. Listen as they talk about–and through!—some of the new hardware and software they’re testing and learning.

Press play, enjoy, and always be performing!

00:00:00 Gig Gab 256 – Monday, May 18, 2020 <https://giggabpodcast.com/>

00:02:17 Playing cover songs on YouTube and Facebook

Why ASCAP Licenses Bars/Venues but Not Musicians

ASCAP YouTube Royalties

Facebook and Music Royalties

ASCAP OnStage

BMI Live

SESAC Affiliate Services

00:15:31 Playing out this summer?

Dave Gerard

00:18:51 Pricing the Payscale

Tim Bluhm

00:30:25 Software and Hardware

Logic Pro X 10.5 Update

iZotope Neutron 3 Channel Strip Plugin

iZotope Ozone 9 Mastering Plugin

iCON Platform M+

Zoom LiveTrak L-8 Battery-Powered Mixer

Behringer ADA8200 ADAT Expansion unit

Universal Audio Arrow Thunderbolt Interface

00:51:05 GG 256 Outtro

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Brad Madix, Front of House for Rush, Queensryche, Jane's Addiction, and more on Gig Gab 255 — Brad Madix: Stories from Front of House with Rush, Queensrÿche, Jane's Addiction, and More May 04, 2020
Show notes

Brad Madix, Front-of-House Engineer for Rush, Bruce Hornsby, Shania Twain, Shakira, Queensrÿche, Jane’s Addiction, Mr. Big, and more joins Paul and Dave today to chat sound, mixing, stories, and Gig Gab!

Brad’s tales and advice are endless – and endlessly valuable! Listen to hear Brad share stories about finding himself behind the console in an arena for the first time, tweaking Geddy Lee’s bass sound, taking the stage with Queensrÿche, and so much more.

Brad also shares his tips and advice about getting the sound right in clubs, large and small, trusting your ears, and protecting your hearing in the process.

A man who happily says that he has “years of practice” in the space tells us all why we should “never runs towards a fire.”

Press play and enjoy, folks. This is a good one!

00:00:00 Gig Gab 255 – Monday, May 4, 2020

Brad Madix – FOH Sound, Diablo Digital, And More

John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band, Rush, Bruce Hornsby, Shania Twain, Shakira, Jane’s Addiction, Mr. Big, and More.

The Early Years

PM1000 Mixing Console

31-band Graphic EQs

Tall Crowds Cause a Problem!

Ted Leamy, Sound Engineer – “Never Run Towards a Fire”

The Rush Trust Equation

Tweaking Geddy Lee’s Bass Sound

Four inputs: clean, gritty, and massively distorted (times two!)

Strings on a Rock Stage

Mr. Big’s friends showed up.

Live: condensers vs. dynamics

“Years of Practice”

Game-Changing Live Sound Tech

Line Arrays

Christian Heil and the V-DOSC System

Digital Consoles

Tips:

Mix the First Song In Your Head

It starts with the drummer!

Club Tips!

Vocals have to win

Guitar Solos need to be heard

Don’t cut everything from the EQ!

Live with What you Have: the PA in the Room

Hearing Protection Tips

Manage your volume over time

Measure your SPLs

Target 97dB

Manage your headphone volume (keep it low!)

Buy quality earplugs

But test with foam, because that’s what the audience is hearing!

When do we tour again?

Diablo Digital

Recording and archiving multi-track recordings of live shows

Brad Madix, jazz piano interlude, Queensryche, Here in the Now Frontier Tour

01:03:30 GG 255 Outtro

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Gear Gab with picture of microphones in a case — Gear Gab Apr 27, 2020
Show notes

Today it’s time to talk gear. And gain staging. And effects. And audio interfaces. And Microphones. Oh, wait, those last two are gear, too, aren’t they? And effects… that can be gear? Are effects considered “gear” if it’s a digital plugin versus a piece of outboard equipment?

Oh the questions you have! Well, Paul and Dave have questions, too… and a few answers. Really, though, it’s all about just learning how to make yourself sound great. And is there a better thing to work on during quarantine? Join in the fun and press play!

00:00:00 Gig Gab 254 – Monday, April 27, 2020

00:02:04 Charlie Watts, Air Drummer Extreme!

jamLink

00:13:05 The Human Element of Technology

Tim Bluhme

Neumann U67

Gain Structure

UA Arrow

Heil PR-40

Audio Technica AT2005USB

Warm Audio WA-251

RØDE NT2-A

Mojave Microphone MA200

00:40:28 Digitalizing the Podcast Studio

PreSonus FaderPort 8

Living In A Ghose Town

Bitter Pill Live this weekend, and next, and next

00:48:16 Disappearing into your Performance

mimoLive

00:55:24 GG 254

Cameras – Get a tripod!

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Managing–and Learning–Your Fans' Expectations Apr 20, 2020
Show notes

How do your fans feel? Do you know? If not, what can you do to find out? Well, Paul and Dave talk through all of this and more. The good news is you can be a fan now, too, and learn what it feels like when someone asks you to tip or share or visit or more. And you can apply that compassion to crafting your own fan environment. Are tips the right answer? Or are subscriptions a better model? Listen as your two favorite weekend warriors talk this through.

The bookends to this weeks show are tech tips, first about recording techniques, lastly about streaming. Listen as Paul and Dave share the new things they’ve learned about this week. Remember, always be performing!

00:00:00 Gig Gab 253 – Monday, April 20, 2020

00:00:51 Spending time in the studio, recording, mixing, and learning!

Brad Madix Q&A with DPA Microphones

Parallel Compression

00:11:52 Managing fans’ expectations: streams, tipping, engagement

Tips vs. Subscriptions

Artists are fans, too, now.

We can experience, but we can learn.

Sam Eigen – https://www.facebook.com/sam.eigen.14

00:42:54 When will it be normal? (as if we know!)

00:44:00 Live Streaming Tech Support

Trim your live videos for your archives

Add those timestamps!

Logitech BRIO

Logitech C920

00:49:14 GG 253 Outtro

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Band on stage from top view — Thinking of the Stage Apr 13, 2020
Show notes

Paul and Dave start today’s show with a detour about… playing live! Sure, we can’t do this right now, but that means now is a great time to stop and think about some of the more overlooked aspects of your live show and setup. We’re out of the grind of playing every week (or every night), sure, and that allows us the gift of perspective. What things about our live shows can we change? What can we work on right now? Dave has a few ideas that he and Paul talk through.

Then it’s time to talk about mixing your streams, and whether streaming is the right thing for you versus record-and-release.

Listen as your two favorite weekend warriors talk about how they played this weekend and what they did!

00:00:00 Gig Gab 252 – Monday, April 13, 2020

00:01:29 Staggering mic placement for visual paths (GD 3/27/88)

00:07:53 Some thoughts on live mixes (ref. Diggin’ on James Brown from GG250)

00:14:43 Adding Delay to match amp distance.

1ms per foot.

00:20:59 Did You Play This Weekend?

Music (and musicians) in the Time of COVID-19 Live Streaming – Part 1

00:21:51 How do you mix your stream?

Apple USB/Camera Connection Kit

StreamYard

Switcher Studio

mimoLive

00:52:29 GG 252 Outtro

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Cover Band Central's Steve Witschel on Live Streaming and More Apr 07, 2020

Show notes

Steve Witschel returns to Gig Gab after four years to talk about the evolution of his Cover Band Central site and Facebook groups. Things have grown quite a bit for CBC since Steve chatted with your two favorite weekend warriors, and they go through that evolution together.

Steve’s also spent quite a bit of time perfecting – and teaching – the nuances of live-streaming. He, Paul, and Dave talk through all of this, too, offering you a ton of great tips and tricks to make your live streams even more successful for you and your audiences.

00:00:00 Gig Gab 251 – Tuesday, April 7, 2020
- Steve Witschel
- Originally on GG 51 in 2016!
- Cover Band Central (16K in 2016; 156K followers on the page, 56K members in 2020)
00:06:00 Being a music fan makes you a musician, which makes you a fan
00:10:34 Live Streaming since 2016
00:12:05 Live Streaming Made Easy: A Musician’s Guide to Facebook Live
00:13:55 How to Flip your Screen for Facebook Live
00:25:25 Advice for Promoting yourself on Facebook
00:26:41 Watch Your Own Feed… WOULD you?
- Scott Winters YouTube and Facebook
- Streamyard
00:36:33 GG 251

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Live Streaming Tech and Trusting The Muse Mar 30, 2020
Show notes

As promised, Paul and Dave talk through what they know and have learned about setting yourself up to live stream from your house or studio. There are definitely some tips and tricks, and your two favorite weekend warriors share as many of them as they’ve found.

Then it’s on to embracing the muse. Dave had an epiphany moment this past weekend when he broke through his sadness of sequester and started tracking drums, only to find that there was an even better drum part for a new FLING song waiting right around the corner. Listen as he dissects these two and compares live in the show.

Have fun, experiment, and remember: always be performing!

00:00:00 Gig Gab 250 – Monday, March 30, 2020

00:07:40 Tech for Live Streaming

OBS Studio

Restream.io

mimoLive

Jamulus

OBS Camera

Apple USB/Camera Connection Kit

Virtual Audio Cables: Loopback (for macOS), and VB-Cable (for Windows)

Audio Hijack

FB-Peter-Thoughts and Discussion about Live Streaming

00:28:05 Trusting the Muse!

Samples of FLING’s “Saturday Tomorrow”

Mike O’Brien’s Houserockers live mix

Clay Bell

00:50:00 Bandzoogle, always commission-free

00:50:49 GG 250 Outtro

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Tip jar with QR codes — The Evolution of Online Busking Mar 23, 2020
Show notes

Dave watched the new “Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time” movie that premiered (virtually) at SXSW 2020 last week, so he starts us off with a review about that. Great stories and great memories abound.

Online busking has become more a thing than ever, and Paul and Dave talk through some of what they’re seeing, what the future holds, and how the beginnings of podcasting give us some perspective on it all.

Next week, we’ll talk about the tech that you’ll eventually be using to do all your online busking, so please send in your questions for your two favorite weekend warriors to consider: feedback@giggabpodcast.com – For now, just keep doing what you’re doing. We love you for it!

00:00:00 Gig Gab 249 – Monday, March 23, 2020

00:02:25 SXSW 2020 Movie Review-Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time

Movies available today:

Echo in The Canyon

20 Feet from Stardom

Hired Gun

00:15:10 Online Busking

Matt Langley

Simon Santiago

Shure MV88+ Video Kit

StageIt

Restream.io

Crowdcast.io

00:37:12 Next week: The Tech!

OBS Studio

00:40:29 GG 249 Outtro

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Cancelations ... Mean Opportunity Mar 16, 2020
Show notes

Paul and Dave both had gig cancelations, as did many of you. Some of you figured out how to perform anyway, in a safe manner, and that’s inspiring to all of us. Your two favorite weekend warriors talk through some of the things they’re doing, and you’ll even get to hear a sneak peek at the Bitter Pill album Dave recently discussed recording. Always be performing, indeed!

00:00:00 Gig Gab 248 – Monday, March 16, 2020 <https://giggabpodcast.com/>

00:01:00 Creating and Supporting that Lovely Gig Vibe

00:09:18 Cancelations…

Buy gift cards from your favorite venues

00:13:48 …Mean Opportunity!

VILTROX LED Light Panel

Restream.io

Sonos Move

00:41:00 GG 248 Outtro

Southside Johnny Better Days are coming

00:42:45 Bitter Pill: Desperate Times

Pre-Order Desperate Times on the New Hampshire State Line (just ten bucks!)

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Mike Dias, Executive Director of In-Ear Monitor International Trade Organization on Gig Gab 247 — Mike Dias, a Career of In-Ears Mar 09, 2020
Show notes

Mike Dias, long-time in-ear industry expert and now Executive Director of the In-Ear Monitor International Trade Organization, joins Paul and Dave this week. They chat about the history of in-ears, the future, solving problems, and more. They even touch on a few “hot button” topics, too, but you’ll have to listen to hear about that!

00:00:00 Mike Dias, a Lifetime of In-Ears – Gig Gab 247 – Monday, March 9, 2020

Guest appearance: Mike Dias, long-time in-ear monitor champion, Artist relations, marketing, sales at Ultimate Ears, now with the In Ear Monitor International Trade Organization

Jerry Harvey on Gig Gab

Ultimate Ears UE5c – The original, consumer-focused, custom fit in-ears

Head-Fi.org – The forum where it all began

IEMITO’s mission: promoting use/benefits of IEMs

Ultimate Ears Pro 7-Ambients

Telefunken M80

00:19:28 SPONSOR: CHAUVET DJ. The new GigBAR Move has moving head fixtures, wash light pars, strobes, and lasers on one, easy-to-setup bar.

00:21:02 Part 2: Finding Your Sonic Home

Dynamic Ear Company – Purpose built filters

Westone EAS Series with Ambient Ports

ACS Custom, Ambient-compatible in-ears

Gorilla Amp

Sensaphonics 3DME

00:38:50 GG 247 Outtro

IEMITO

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