Good day one and all!!
The forum has been rather quiet as of late and I am hopeful that such quietness is not the result of SAW/SAC being relegated to an archive HDD.
Regardless, I do sincerely hope that all of you are doing well.
I happened upon a rather interesting video from Rick Beato entitled, "Is Performing With A Backing Track Cheating? My Opinion..." which I found both surprising and need-I-say, "shocking".
So, I thought that I would share this link with you and see what your thoughts and/or opinions are.
In particular, was his use of the term "stems" - though which I had heard many timed previously, and never really understood, at least until now, that is. Apparently, the use of such "stems" are very common.
In my days of playing "live", we used a single mixer "head" and two column speakers with 8-10's in each column. We had no idea what monitors were - or even what a FOH engineer was. There were generally, four of us, keyboards, bass , drums and guitar - left-to-right. Oftentimes, I never heard the keyboardist over the bass and drums. Yet, apparently, our band was one of the best around at that time. Interesting!
For a very short time, I had the opportunity of being "a roadie" for the Guess Who" during their Saskatchewan tour. Their setup was very similar to the one I had been accustomed to - with the exception of an engineer and two speaker cabinets located to the left and right of the performers - I cannot remember what these cabinets were referred to as. And yet, no monitors - at least that I can remember.
My, how things have changed - or have they?
Anyhow, "Is Performing With A Backing Track Cheating?"
Thanks for your time!
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