Acoustic Solo Gig Setup and Tips for Outdoor Venues

[@ronzrolly8723]

Love the shirt 🤣🤘 greetings from Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬

[@jasonstallworth]

Thank you! I hope this video helped!

[@ronzrolly8723]

Definitely did 👍

[@SingerRC513]

Awesome video! Me and my buddy are in a rock band and have never ran our own sound. We want to get into acoustic shows and this was a perfect video explaining what we would need, and more. Thank you!

[@jasonstallworth]

Great to hear that and good luck to you guys with the acoustic shows..those are a lot of fun (and probably more profitable!)

[@arthurmurfitt7698]

Thanks for the tips, Jason. 😉

[@jasonstallworth]

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[@thomasberg7088]

Nice! Professional habits

[@jasonstallworth]

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[@jamesalcock3060]

Thanks for this great video, really informative & helpful Love then 80’s, love rock & acoustic

[@jasonstallworth]

Glad this helped and I have more coming!

[@rogerrenner2523]

Love this stuff I am actually starting out doing these solo gigs too .Thank you for the tips and you play awesome wish I took guitar more serious years ago married and job fender in the corner. Divorced seven guitars and improved great amounts

[@jasonstallworth]

Awesome to hear you’re out there doing it!

[@TonyGarciaLaVoz]

Excellent! Thank you for sharing

[@jasonstallworth]

Thanks for watching and glad this helped!

[@klestu]

Excellent! Thank you for sharing! My setup is similar!

[@jasonstallworth]

Thanks for the comment. It's a great setup, although I'm on the fence about getting one of those portable systems like the Bose S1

[@lasse3412]

Great info. Just did a gig here up in north sweden yesterday. Best job we have :)

[@jasonstallworth]

Oh that's awesome, I'd love to visit Sweden someday! I'm so glad to hear you're playing live shows there. It is a cool job!

[@budoet38]

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[@jasonstallworth]

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[@juliodefreitas157]

Awesome setup 💙💙👍👍

[@jasonstallworth]

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[@thepumpkinking666]

Awesome video..as usual. 🤟🎸

[@jasonstallworth]

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[@bobstewartfolk]

Enjoyed the video man...but ....you've made me go down to the pub for an IPA 😂 Greetings from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jasonstallworth]

Lol...dude, I've love to go to a pub in Scotland someday!

[@terrytarpening9456]

I do similar but use 2 Bose units for added bass and they’re behind me doubling as monitors. Helix floor for variax and acoustic. Goes into Voicelive 3 Extreme for backing tracks and vocal automation and harmonies. Then everything through an analog mixer for individual mixes of course. Two led lights for night gigs. But I haven’t made a video yet lol. Great video and job! Thanks!

[@jasonstallworth]

I'm considering the Bose! Getting tired of setting up and tearing down all of this gear, 2-3x a week!

[@terrytarpening9456]

@@jasonstallworth I used tops like yours and had 4 stands to setup including the lights. Got tired of it all and got the Bose units. Now I don’t even need a monitor most places. Didn’t look back.

[@makingmusiconline2309]

Hi, love your videos and your music! Next time I'm visiting relatives in St.Pete I'll see what gigs you've got on and come say "hi". I'm based in Cambridge, UK, and you mentioned your set lists were on your home page (I think) but I couldn't spot them with a quick look. I'll go back and do a more intensive search, but just wondered if they had lost their link in any maintenance/update work? I play acoustic and electric guitar here in the UK and I'm trying to put together my own playlist (probably fewer 80s and more Beatles/Simon & Garfunkel/Monkeels/Irish and Folk music) but would really appreciate any set list suggestions for things that work well for your audiences. I'm assuming you only do the mandatory Yacht Rock/Jimmy Buffet songs :D :D :D

[@jasonstallworth]

That would be awesome! Definitely reach out. I keep my schedule updated and my contact info is on my website: www.jasonstallworth.com/ I don't have my complete set list published but that's coming soon! And there are certain popular songs that I just refuse to play! That's the beauty of sticking with a particular genre and/or era, and not being all over the place.

[@Ejb5154]

This is a great video! Have you ever found the need to bring back up guitars?

[@jasonstallworth]

Thank you! Yes and no. If you have just one acoustic (with electronics) it may be a good idea to have an external pickup you can pop in as a back up. For larger shows, I may bring both acoustics. But I also always bring my electric as I play some leads over looped rhythms with it. And technically I could use that as a back up, which I’ve done before! I share some of those stories in this video…strange things can happen when you’re gigging: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpWUqWOPdsigb9k

[@Ejb5154]

@@jasonstallworth Very cool. I'll check that out. Thanks.

[@scottbecker3485]

Interesting that you are making several (was it 4 or 5?) trips back to the car to carry everything, rather than using a cart of some kind (such as the Rock N Roller). Don‘t you ever play venues where you have to go quite a distance back and forth, maybe even in the rain? I‘d think a cart (and some kind of tarp or rain cover to toss over it) could reduce the time and effort considerably, at least as long as there aren‘t too many stairs or gravel yards in between.

[@jasonstallworth]

I’ve had a cart for a while since making this video. Yes, it comes in handy. Especially when I okay at places like SeaWorld and carrying gear into the park

[@paulthornton918]

Jason thanks very much for your videos, when you send the mic mechanic thru the sound board do u turn off the sound board effects for the mic mechanic channel? cheers.

[@jasonstallworth]

Yes, I would turn off all other effects on the channel. I actually don’t use this pedal anymore though. In the attempt to cut down on gear, I’m just using the compression and reverb on my soundboard and also the Evolve 50M. This is a more recent setup: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bp3Nd2isarWWpposi=LfdQtJ4qC7hOeUzm

[@starets-vR]

Здорово! Ох и аппаратуры у Вас!😳

[@jasonstallworth]

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[@NoCoverCharge]

Where’s your schedule ? I’ll try and make a show..I’ve started using the tc helicon voice live play acoustic for acoustic and vocals … it rocks … and I do need pitch correction lol

[@jasonstallworth]

Dude, I keep my home page updated (and I also post my schedule and upcoming on Facebook): www.jasonstallworth.com/

[@barry5607]

Hi Jason love your videos on the live shows !!they really like you at this venue. i think you could be come resident there 👍😎🤞just a quick question how do you level out the pod go with mixer to stop any clipping from electric to acoustic do you change the volume on the pod go or mixer?thanks in advance keep up your great work🍺😉🎸

[@jasonstallworth]

That's a great question. I set up different pates for each. I actually have a set of patches for electric (one clean for rhythms, one for clean leads, and an overdriven lead). And another set of patches for acoustic, which are a rhythm, lead (a little boost with some delay), and an ambient patch (just more delay and reverb) So I just made sure when creating those that the levels were in sync across the board...so it was a bit of going back and forth.

[@barry5607]

@@jasonstallworth Thanks for your reply Jason!that has helped a lot set up a new patch for acoustic and adjust the levels to suite Awesome 👍😎🎸

[@brianbermingham7814]

Great video thanks, what setting do you use on the vocal pedal, i just purchased one. cheers

[@jasonstallworth]

I've got an entire video on the Mic Mechanic and my settings here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oX_LZ6NjnbOYkJI

[@brianbermingham7814]

@@jasonstallworth Thanks man you are the best

[@vexxedami7817]

Jason- one topic I haven’t seen in “getting started” acoustic gigs is dealing with feedback. Trying to set up in a small practice room my condenser mic howls unless I parade that thing across my house no matter how low i turn down level and gain. I wonder if a equalizer is an essential item for your rig?

[@jasonstallworth]

I haven't ha any issue with feedback unless I'm too close to the system. But in your case, you're using a condenser mic - I'd switch to a dynamic mic for smaller areas and for playing live.

[@vexxedami7817]

Thank you Jason. I did get smart with the three band eq on my mixer and found the band group (the lows) that were the culprits. I turned those way down. Doesn’t seem to impact the voice sound too badly.

[@TheSingingDoctor325]

How do you do your sound check if your setting by yourself? I've heard of someone doing a guitar and voice loop and then walking out into the audience to see how it sounds.

[@jasonstallworth]

I think it's pretty simple with solo gigs. You should already have your standard mix, just guitar and vocals. So it's just a matter of if you're too loud for not. The first time at a gig, you have to test that during with a warm up song or something and just ask the audience if you're too loud. I also, at every gig, let the management and staff know to please tell me if I'm too loud and that I'm happy to turn down. They appreciate that. Because they need to be able to hear when taking orders and the crowd typically wants to be able to have conversations amongst one another.

[@TheSingingDoctor325]

@@jasonstallworth Thanks. Last Fri I was doing my 3rd gig and the someone in the audience told me that my vocals were not loud enough vs my guitar but not until after my 2nd song.

[@msenecal]

Angus Young (AC/DC) sweats so bad that his guitar tech has to disassemble his SG to get the sweat out.

[@jasonstallworth]

Yeah he moves around quite a bit...lot of cardio on stage!

[@matthck1]

I was wondering what app or how your putting lyrics on your IPad.

[@jasonstallworth]

I just Apple Pages. I copy/paste lyrics there and I'll typically type in what key I'm playing the song in (I transpose most songs).

[@u.b.g442]

How would one go about using a reg amp with this set up? wanting to get into doing live solo gigs myself.

[@jasonstallworth]

I would mic an amp so that it's coming out of the mains with my vocals. With that, you'd want to keep the amp volume down so that it's not overpowering on stage.

[@u.b.g442]

@@jasonstallworth Thanks so much for the reply/answer

[@arjundano7521]

very nice bro... haha

[@jasonstallworth]

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[@arjundano7521]

im your fans from Philippines.. i learned a lot from you sir.. thank you

[@andrewlarios4977]

I’m thinking about playing my first gig. Have a dumb question, how many songs should I have prepared to play a 3 hour gig? And should I include song that I don’t know the solos to?

[@jasonstallworth]

That's actually a great question. Here's the way I typically do it: Set 1 (1 hour): 13-14 songs Set 2 (45 minutes): 11-12 songs Set 3 (45 minutes) 11-12 songs Sometimes I may only take one break for 3 hours shows. The best way is to have even more than than that so you have more choices, and I use an iPad for lyrics. As far as solos, unless you're using a looper to play solos over your rhythm, which I do quite often, I wouldn't bother trying to fit solos in by themselves. And for acoustic shows, there's no need to play the solos exactly note-for-note. Just make something up that fits that key.

[@andrewlarios4977]

@@jasonstallworth WOW thank you!.. I’m so glad I found your channel! Keep it up with the great content