[sdiy] testing 1, 2, 3

[Harry Bissell Jr]

I usually say "Testes one, two, three..."

Get a lot of weird looks when I reach three btw...

H^) harry

--- WeAreAs1 at aol.com wrote:

> Check, one, two.
> 
> Two, two, TWO, TWO, TWO.  TWO.  TWO.    TWO.     
> TWO.              TWO.
> 
> Just checking to see if this creaky old mailing list
> is still working.  I 
> always see the replies, but never see the original
> post to which people are 
> replying.  This seems to happen every six months or
> so.  Why???  What am I being 
> punished for?  (please don't answer that...)
> 
> On another note, I don't know about you guys, but it
> bugs the hell out of me 
> how today's live sound engineers are always saying
> "two, two, two" during 
> sound checks.  Just "two, two, two" -- nothing else.
>  They always pronounce it 
> "tee-you", like some badly programmed Simmons drum,
> over and over -- as if 
> they're somehow trying to get the pronunciation JUST
> RIGHT.  And by "just right" I 
> mean "more annoying than Fran Drescher on coke". 
> Whatever happened to 
> "Testing, one, two, three"?  It's as if all these
> guys care about is how the "t" 
> sibilant sounds.  Oh yeah -- that, and the kick
> drum.  The kick drum has got to be 
> able to drown out every other instrument on stage,
> including the bass guitar.  
> Keyboards?  Fuggedaboutit!  I'm sure there's a
> special place in hell for 
> these guys:  they get to spend eternity as the bass
> drum in a junior high school 
> marching band.  The song that the drummer plays on
> them only has one beat, and 
> it repeats forever.  The beat goes "two, two, two,
> two, two...."
> 
> Michael B.
>