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How am I supposed to know what it's supposed to sound like?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dick Rees" data-source="post: 32099" data-attributes="member: 16"><p>Re: How am I supposed to know what it's supposed to sound like?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>CD's or on-line clips are handy, but IME both as a sound guy and a musician with over 40 years experience a lot of groups out there can't come close to their CD in live performance. The trouble with studio work by bands is that there is a lot of "studio" in their CD and they just can't get that in live performance.</p><p></p><p>But getting back to the original situation:</p><p></p><p>You're given a guitar and a bass (backing), drums (rhythm) and fiddle (lead). How hard is it to get an accurate representation of that out to the audience? What bothered me about the statement cited as a thread title was that the tech was blame shifting his inability to do a simple coherent mix. And it's not "individual taste" in mixes when the snare is twice as loud as any other part of the kit (and louder than the guitar), sticking out like a sore thumb and the sound is an amorphous mass of rhythm with NO LEAD WHATSOEVER. That's not just taste in a mix, that's just horses***.</p><p></p><p>The point (if there is one) is that such a statement shifts the blame from the lack of technical competence off of the person whose job it is to sort things out. </p><p></p><p>It wasn't the quality of the mix. There was no mix. The statement from the tech was symptomatic regarding his lack of commitment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dick Rees, post: 32099, member: 16"] Re: How am I supposed to know what it's supposed to sound like? CD's or on-line clips are handy, but IME both as a sound guy and a musician with over 40 years experience a lot of groups out there can't come close to their CD in live performance. The trouble with studio work by bands is that there is a lot of "studio" in their CD and they just can't get that in live performance. But getting back to the original situation: You're given a guitar and a bass (backing), drums (rhythm) and fiddle (lead). How hard is it to get an accurate representation of that out to the audience? What bothered me about the statement cited as a thread title was that the tech was blame shifting his inability to do a simple coherent mix. And it's not "individual taste" in mixes when the snare is twice as loud as any other part of the kit (and louder than the guitar), sticking out like a sore thumb and the sound is an amorphous mass of rhythm with NO LEAD WHATSOEVER. That's not just taste in a mix, that's just horses***. The point (if there is one) is that such a statement shifts the blame from the lack of technical competence off of the person whose job it is to sort things out. It wasn't the quality of the mix. There was no mix. The statement from the tech was symptomatic regarding his lack of commitment. [/QUOTE]
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