Had a great gig last weekend 300 people, full dance floor all night, great feedback from guests throughout the night and afterwards, the sort of gig we all strive for every time but unfortunately don't always get, so thanks Peter and ST3.
My Formula to success in order of importance
1 Select songs the audience wants to hear
2 Connect with the audience and don't fiddle with equipment, ST3 makes this very possible.
3 Have a good sound and mix from the start to end without fiddling around, this you achieve at home not at the gig, if you're fiddling with mixes on the night you haven't done you prep work and will appear amateurish.
4 By keeping your backing track needs simple you will be more at ease on the night and this will rub off on to your audience, of course the ability to sing and play your instruments and whatever you are doing is a big factor but thats obvious.
My point is, you don't have to have a complicated mess of a setup to achieve a good outcome, you might be better of spending that time in creating great backing tracks and choosing appropriate songs instead , this would be more beneficial to you on the night.
No one in the audience cares about your ingenious mess of a setup that really doesn't achieve anything noticeable to them.
I am really looking forward to a very simple yet powerful looping feature, thats the only thing thats really missing to improve my on stage needs.
This will do much more for me on stage than multitrack, PDFs or midi control.
Stereo is fine for me, auto text with chords is working great, i am happy with a few basic guitar sounds which i can manually control and i don't get paid enough to include my own automated lighting so i really don't need midi control which is kind of old school anyway, but looping is something that will make a big difference when using backing tracks.
Thanks again Peter for making my on stage experience enjoyable.
Cheers Damir