20 Questions Quiz, 13-16 Below
13. Why do drummers need so much stuff in their mixes?
A. Greed
B. They are upstage of the rest of the band and can’t hear much of what is happening on stage or bouncing back from the house
C. You got a problem with that?
D. Everyone else in the band can play around the beat, but somebody has got to be the “time cop”- and – drummers need to hear everything so that they can adjust for whatever disaster is being perpetrated by the rest of the band
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14. Why do you only put the top two strings of the bass guitar in the drum mix?
A. That’s not possible – there is no way of just pitting the top two strings in the mix
B. Yes it is possible – you cut the lows and low mids on the bass DI strip and dump the rest into the drum mix
C. Because the drummer is already getting enough energy from the bass stack next to his riser to form a second navel and therefore is in no need of anything more from the 400Hz and below range
D. The main LF component in the drummer’s mix is the kick drum, and lower bass stuff obscures the crucial kick energy
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15. Why put kick and snare in the sides?
A. Because the band asked for it
B. Because it ticks off the front of house mixer
C. Because you have lame wedges and it’s a lot easier to carry vocals only in the floor wedges and push the “horsepower” out of the sides
D. Because there is no low end to the first ten rows in the room and you always have to do this
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16. What are the main constituents of a great lead vocal mix?
A. No feedback
B. Every word can be heard clear as a bell at the monitor desk, even with earplugs in
C. The rest of the band is hiding 20 feet upstage because they can’t take it anymore
D. You’ve just been informed you got the next tour
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