D-Krons Live Show, October 1997

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Posted by Sleazy D (SleazyD) on Nov 22 2007 at 1:27 AM
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The WPI Lens and Lights crew wanted to do a training, a training to work on bands that weren't made up of the standard "Guitar, Bass, Vocal, Drums" makeup. D-Krons and Many Small Functions were not those kinds of bands.

The format of the show was to set up 2 bands with a changeover. Both bands were entirely electronic. From a mixing standpoint, the hardest thing to really get is that due to the nature of the instruments and the direct input, it was completely possible to get very bad things going through the system. If you mic a guitar at 4 inches with an SM-57, you know what you're going to get. However, when you give a guy an XLR cable and he attaches it to what is in essense a precision signal generator, you can get massive subharmonics, spikes, pops, gound loops, and plenty else that just sounds bad.

All in all, the show went off fine. D-Krons did 5 tunes, with the last one being a reprise. The line up was Harrison, Nate Howles, John Mock (Bass), Annika Nilson (Hot chick Vocals), and myself. Our plan was to start with a tune I wrote ("Climbing a Hill"), and then let Harrison take over to suprise us with something on the next song. We'd end on a reprise of "Climbing a Hill". The rest was a complete mystery to us until we made it up.

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