Best of luck. Hope all goes well!
Thanks. For the most part, it did. Had the Trailer Park Boys sitting behind me acting like drunken/high morons with one screaming "WHOOOOOP" from time to time. Gonna have to do some small edits (may even just fade out and back in for the encore break because he was REALLY LOUD).
Went with the preamp after all. I needed the extra juice because it wasn't that loud in the venue.
That's the problem with Casino Rama -- the audience. Many of them have free tickets on their gambling/drinking junkets and couldn't care less about the performer.
At Jeff Beck last year, the drunk beside me kept on getting up during the songs to go out and snort some coke in the washroom. I finally told him not to come back and he sat elsewhere and bothered some other people with his idiocy.
The other problem with the Casino is the P.A. mix. I have only heard two well-mixed concerts in a dozen visits: James Brown, and Ronnie Hawkins. In that size of room, at the moderate volumes they use, it should be much better than what they usually achieve.