Some lovely Redditor posted:

Not my story, but I like to read it again from time to time and get a good chuckle:
My band’s drummer, John, is also a sound guy; for several years before we hooked up musically, he had been doing sound for other bands I was in, as well as for touring acts I booked shows for. He’s very good at what he does, and has a pretty massive rig. Anyway, he’s the nicest guy in the world at band practice, at Burger King, or at a gig we’re playing, but when he’s running sound for other bands, he can be pretty crabby. Very little patience for bands who start late or end late. Even less patience for bands who take an encore when they’re the second band playing out of five. Very little patience for singers who ask for more vocals in the monitor while cupping the microphone ball in both hands (feedback, anyone?) In general, just an altogether grouchy sound man. For example, he ran sound once for this seven- or eight piece ska band. One of the trombone players said he needed two mics: one for his horn and one for his backup vocals. Normally at this venue (a 120-seater), John didn’t bother to mic horns at all. Rolling his eyes, John put up a Shure Beta 58 and some AKG condenser mic. “This Shure is for your vocals, and this AKG is for your horn, OK?” he said. “Don’t blow your horn into the vocal mic, because your horn is about 30db louder than your voice and I’m going to have everything mixed properly.” Horn player nods his head. During the second song of the set, apparently this trombonist was set to get a solo. Right before his solo starts, he grabs both mics and pushes them close together, so that the capsules are actually touching. He then blows this fortissimo opening note into BOTH mics. I was sitting at a table in back, by the sound board, at the time. John’s limiters caught most of it, and I STILL had ringing in my ears for two days. At the end of the song, John mutes both of the guy’s mics (and leaves them mute), and basically threatens to ream out the guy’s plumbing with his own horn if he ever pulls that poo poo again. John does this through his talkback mic, which is clearly audible over the monitors. The crowd bursts into laughter, and the horn player goes bright red in the face.
At any rate, for years I had heard John threaten bands with the “suck button.” Bands who were taking too long to set up, or whose members repeatedly refused to follow reasonable directions (please keep that vocal mic away from the monitors!), would be threatened. “Pull that poo poo again, and I’m gonna hit the suck button on you guys!” I took it to mean that he would intentionally make them sound bad, but he never followed through on the threat, so I took it as a vague general warning.

So anyway, a little while back he’s running sound on a four band show. The second band, a Matchbox 20/Train kind of band, has him running 20 minutes behind before they even play a note because their lead guitarist was late. Their allotted set time is 40 minutes, but their last song runs over and by the time it’s done, they’ve played for almost 45 minutes. John says quietly over the talkback mic, “Hey guys, you’re done.” The lead singer says loudly over the vocal mic “Sound man says we gotta get off the stage. We got one more song for you!” as they kick into another soupy jangle-rock tune. John shakes his head at me. Then, the most amazing thing happened. After their “encore,” this band kicks straight into ANOTHER song without announcing it, apparently in the hope that John wouldn’t notice it was a different song.
John leans over to me to be heard over the PA and asks, “Hey, wanna see the suck button?” “Sure,” I replied. I figured he was going to muck with the levels or just turn them off or something. Instead, he reaches to one of his racks and starts scrolling through patches on his trusty DigiTech unit. Sure enough, he gets to a patch titled SUCK BUTTON. He engages it, and all hell breaks loose onstage. The lead singer and the lead guitarist (who was singing backup), immediately start to sing WAY off key. They try to get back in tune, fail, trail off in mid-line, try again, and start glaring at each other. The guitarist is so distracted by this that he starts muffing the chord progression. If not for the drummer, I think the whole song would have derailed. For the entire four minute duration of the song, I was treated to this rear end in a top hat band sounding like crap and getting madder and madder at each other. John explained the patch to me; basically it pitch shifts all tracks from the vocal submix up one step, BUT ONLY IN THE MONITORS. So the audience, out in front of the mains, was treated to the sound of two guys trying to get in tune, only to be utterly confused. If they got it sounding right in the monitors, they could tell that something was grossly wrong in the mains. And each of the singers thought it was the other guy who was singing out of tune. I just about died laughing.

Captain Monkey posted:

tl;dr - My friend is an awesome sound guy and when bands upset him, he pushes a magic button and suddenly none of them know how to sing in tune anymore because ~*Sound Magic*~

chitoryu12 posted:

I don't play in a band. How noticeable would the pitch difference between the monitors and main speakers be to both the audience and the singers?

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A little backstory: She was a cool edgy girl and I had a ton of fun being with her. A month into the relationship she told me that she was transexual and that she wants to be a man. I thought her gender change wasn't going to affect our relationship so I went along with it. A month after THAT, she cut her hair, started wearing guy clothes, and started going by Mike (not real name) After that I kind of lost a connection. I refered to him by Mike and him/he but it felt weird. I felt like I was dating a bro and not my honey anymore. I'm not attracted to guys in any way and that's what he was. He figured this out through reading my messages after jokingly taking my phone with my friend explaining that I don't know how to maintain a relationship if I'm not attracted to my partner. He took it very personal and all his friends hate my living guts now. I feel evil and heartless. I don't care if this get down voted I just felt like sharing this. Will delete soon.

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A former girlfriend and I still have feelings for each-other, but we split because of religious differences. The other day she called me and said that if we got back together, I'd have to get rid of my cat.
[Cat pics and statements of "I'm not giving him up" ensue]

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yeah I eat rear end posted:

The part that's hard to believe about the first one is that people "hated his guts" for what happened. How could a straight man be in a relationship with a trans man unless they still deep down considered them a woman (or realized they were gay)? I guess it's just fishing for the anti-trans crowd to pat him on the back.

Anyway the past page or two has been really awful (in a good way). It has all of the eye-roll inducing power of troper tales, but instead of just being very boring theater kid bullshit that probably really did happen, they are truly stdh.txt.

ishikabibble posted:

He didn't actually internalize what his partner being trans would entail because they told him at a time when they were still outwardly effeminate, and thought to try and roll with it because he enjoyed them as a person?

On the flipside, someone transitioning is going through a very rough period in their life and suddenly finding out their partner secretly preferred them as the identity they're trying to transition away from doesn't help matters any.

Captain Monkey posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProRevenge/comments/6a4vfm/the_suck_button_not_my_story/


tl;dr - My friend is an awesome sound guy and when bands upset him, he pushes a magic button and suddenly none of them know how to sing in tune anymore because ~*Sound Magic*~

Stoatbringer posted:

Sounds kinda familiar.... Oh yes.

walrusman posted:

Ohhhh no

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

My dad shaved his beard off once and my mum for real cried and told him she didn't find him hot any more and ordered him to grow it back, so

socalled posted:

Not to start a derail, but if you're not attracted to someone anymore, you're not obligated to continue to be their romantic/sexual partner. I'm a lesbian. I am not attracted to men. If I were dating someone who came out as a trans man, that would be the end of the relationship. I would be supportive as a friend, but not as a girlfriend. It's not a lack of open-mindedness to not be attracted to a particular gender. That's kind of a crucial part of my identity.

Captain Monkey posted:

cheese-cube posted:

I thought that was a photo of an ad on the side of a bus stop which was well confusing. I have to say the whole "photo of message on another phone" angle is funny, enhances credibility for idiots. How hard would it be to make a "photo of another phone" snapchat filter or whatever?

socalled posted:

Not to start a derail, but if you're not attracted to someone anymore, you're not obligated to continue to be their romantic/sexual partner. I'm a lesbian. I am not attracted to men. If I were dating someone who came out as a trans man, that would be the end of the relationship. I would be supportive as a friend, but not as a girlfriend. It's not a lack of open-mindedness to not be attracted to a particular gender. That's kind of a crucial part of my identity.

socalled posted:

Not to start a derail, but if you're not attracted to someone anymore, you're not obligated to continue to be their romantic/sexual partner. I'm a lesbian. I am not attracted to men. If I were dating someone who came out as a trans man, that would be the end of the relationship. I would be supportive as a friend, but not as a girlfriend. It's not a lack of open-mindedness to not be attracted to a particular gender. That's kind of a crucial part of my identity.

poptart_fairy posted:

"I love this person and think they're cool, but I was unable to maintain an attraction when they transitioned to another gender, and this has caused a lot of friction between me and some mutual friends."

I'm not really seeing what's lovely about that, tbh. A little too self-pitying, but other than the lack of attraction there doesn't seem to be any negativity directly linked to the gender identity of his partner.

walrusman posted:

Ohhhh no

Captain Monkey posted:

Zelder posted:

What kind of monster would name a child alexsandriah, drat

goose willis posted:

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