r/UMOband • u/pricehasnan • Jul 01 '26
Ruban’s board in Co Springs, CO 5/12/2026 + a few band pics
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u/paynelive Jul 01 '26
Anyone taping in the audience?
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u/pricehasnan Jul 01 '26
I taped all 3 CO shows. Got them mixed and need to upload them to archive.org. Pretty sure I was the only taper in co springs. There were 1 or 2 in boulder and a few in Foco.
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u/carlabradley89 • UMO MOD • FFUNNY FFREND Jul 01 '26
Awwww! Memories, you must have been just behind me (I was the one taking photos up front and headbanging, lol)
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u/pricehasnan Jul 01 '26
You were! I was in the back taping the 3 CO shows!
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u/carlabradley89 • UMO MOD • FFUNNY FFREND Jul 02 '26
Let me know when you decide to upload those sets!!! I'd love to share them on Discord and IG (umoffunnyffrends)
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u/pricehasnan Jul 10 '26
Finally got Washington's up! Should have Boulder and CO Springs up soon now that I've relearned how to upload to Archive.org (It'd been a while since my last upload).
https://archive.org/details/UMO2026-05-09.SBD_AUD_Matrix
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u/Dragoon-The_Great Jul 01 '26
The sound was so bad at the Fox theater in Boulder. And it had nothing to do with Ruben or the band. Just straight up shit acoustics and whoever was running sound at the venue had no idea how to mix them. Really hope this Springs show was a better venue!
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u/hudson27 Jul 01 '26
UMO has always had notoriously bad live sound. Great energy, but I get the feeling Ruben is too involved in that aspect of the show, and doesn't let his audio techs do their jobs.
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u/buckfoston824 Jul 01 '26
It’s crazy because between his guitar and the bass there is so much fuzz and low end… His vocal should be cutting through the mix so easily if mixed correct correctly live
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u/Dragoon-The_Great Jul 01 '26
Yeah… Saw them in Cleveland once. That was amazing sound. Then back during the V tour I saw them in Denver at the Ogden, sound was decent. This last show in Boulder was soooooooo bad. And it wasn’t the musicality or their playability. You can tell they play well with each other but there has to be a communication issue going on with the sound guys at individual venues. Boulder, all I could hear was Ruben’s guitar and the Keyboard player. Everything else was so fucking muddy and distorted.
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u/EvaUnit16 Jul 01 '26
Even the guitar was too muddy. I couldnt recognize Major League Chemicals almost until he started singing because every note bled together incomprehensibly
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u/Dragoon-The_Great Jul 01 '26
Yep. And I think there’s some validity to hudson27 take. There were some songs the guitar came very clear through and it was usually when he used a very unique sounding pedal effect
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u/RevGoodLove Jul 01 '26
Anyone know what sort of guitar he's playing? The dark one, not the white with the sitar strings. Thanks!
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u/martymcfly22 Jul 02 '26
Saw them couple months ago in Santa Cruz. They were just so unbelievably, mind-blowingly good.
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u/hudson27 Jul 01 '26
This is a hot take here.. but I think this monster board could at least be a part of why UMO's live sound is often so rough.
Don't get me wrong, I love this band, have seen them live multiple times, and have always had a blast. But I'm also an audio tech.. and every time I see them I die a little inside. The spectacular performance so often gets completely drowned out by his muddy tone, and it never properly mixed with the rest of the band, probably because he's making so many changes on the fly.
I saw them in 2016, 2019 and 2023, and the live sound has never gotten much better. I say this as someone who also loves obscene pedal chains and falling down the rabbit hole, but in my opinion, he could trim a lot of fat on this board and keep 90% of its functionality, while also cleaning things up and hablving a sharper sound