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Frank Kotler wrote:
randyhyde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

... and on the weekends I tend
to spend a lot of time running sound and lights at various concerts.

Perhaps an even more thankless task than writing assembler comparisons.

Fortunately, I do this as a hobby and I generally get to pick the bands
and events that I work for. As such, I generally get to work with
people who are *glad* to have the caliber of equipment I've got for
their shows (as they'd normally have to pay quite a bit more for the
service).

Some idiot on stage causes feedback, and everyone turns and looks at tha
"sound guy"...

That's why I run the lights :-). I have a ton of sound equipment just
so I can get jobs doing the lights. The cool thing about lights is that
no matter how badly you do the job, the audience thinks it's intended
and thinks it's cool.

Seriously, though, I've got pretty good equipment and the *only* time
my crew and I run into serious feedback problems is when we get a
guitar player whose "amp goes to 11" and they refuse to turn the volume
down to a reasonable level, even in a small venue. The PA can't compete
with an amp blasting away at full volume in a small room (to get to
that level guarantees feedback). 35 years ago when I did stuff for
local high-school bands, it wasn't very common to find guitar players
who couldn't play a thing without their amps turned up all the way in
order to get the sustain they needed. Today, with all the DSP equipment
available, there is absolutely no need to turn the volume up so high--
you can get the same effect out of a dozen different boxes and control
your sustain and other distortion electronically. Still, a lot of
modern guitar players seem to think they have to have the volume turned
up all the way, even though they drown out everyone else. It's a big
ego thing. As a result, I tend to avoid working shows where the bands
bring amplifiers to the concert. You get a much better (balanced) sound
when everything is run through the sound system (direct in). For
example, the shows I'm doing this next weekend are a loud Christian
rock band and it's all direct in. The show sounds great (well, at
least it has in the past when I've done this band). I also have a great
time doing local acoustic/folk artists. But rock bands that insist on
using amps in a small venue -- that's a problem (of course, in a large
venue you don't have the feedback problems, so the sound system can
compete with their amps).
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

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