This is from my first gig about 2 weeks ago at a bar in Fukuoka. I was
invited to play after another musician heard me sing a few tunes at a
different bar on the house guitar - he said please come to my show and
you can play a few before me! That turned into playing for half an
hour. Luckily thanks to the blog I had 10 songs that were more or less
ready to go!
The first thing that blew my mind was how much better the bar owner's
recording sounded when compared to mine! I told him "Man I wish I had a
set up like yours!" and he whipped out a small recording device thats
just like mine! He showed me he has a mixer where his microphones all
lead to and then from the mixer 2 cables go directly into the recording
device. This means I need one of these mixers! Its also amazing how
playing in a bar full of people is quieter than my recordings in my
apartment where I'm the only one there.
Nevermind the musical errors - damn its embarassing to hear your own screwed up Japanese on a recording.