Thank you marty c.
Hey,great to hear from somebody like me! No offence to all you experts, I really do appreciate that you share all that experience & knowledge. I'm being educated but I have to digest it slowly. Not having a bunch of studio equipment, I will for now, I think, continue to mix in a garage or a large room similar to where I will be gigging, with the exact same amp & speakers I do the mix with. These are small places that typically hold anywhere from 15 to 40 people. My next one will be at an elder care facility that cares for people with mild to severe dementia & memory loss. We will be taking a "Sentimental Journey" with sweet old songs from the 20's,30's 40's. My goal is to maybe trigger a memory, encourage, entertain & inspire. I have another one in the works at a homeless shelter in Green Bay Wi. That one will be a little harder to mix, as it is in a small gymnasium that was a former Catholic school. There is a small church not far from where I live that is about the same size space wise & they give permission for me to set up in there & mix the songs I plan on doing. I'm going to try that. There are ways, I believe, to do these things that are not complicated or high tech. Oh I know that the sound engineers would find something not right, and I don't disrespect them, but I'm not going to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. People tell me that I have a sweet voice. I put emotion into my singing & I sing from my heart. BB has helped me add a dimension to my singing that I just didn't have with only my guitar & mic. It has been though, for me, a pretty steep learning curve.
Thanks to all of you,
Russ66