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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Barracato" data-source="post: 26037" data-attributes="member: 24"><p>Re: One of those nights</p><p></p><p>It must be something in the weather,or the phase of the moon.</p><p> </p><p>Yesterday, I sat through a one day indoor festival that was the worst display of not having a clue I have seen in a long time. Usually I would just leave, but there were a couple of bands I wanted to see, and the torential downpours knd of helped to keep me in place.</p><p> </p><p>This wasn't just a case of "I don't like your idea of a mix", every band that took the stage had technical problems. But none of the problems were insolvable. After the first band, I thought they were just ironing out kinks, after the second band well there were new kinks, after the fifth band we it was clear someone had no clue. Especially after watching one of the two headliners try to get patched and line checked for over 35 minutes. And then stopping in the middle of the set to try to line check again.</p><p> </p><p>The front of house mix had frequent, odd, level jumps in many of the channels, Channels were muted or padded at odd times. Several bass amps introduced ground hums. Most of the lower part of the vocal range was mush, and the subs were worse.</p><p> </p><p>I try not to comment on others peoples work because you never really know what problems behind the scenes they are dealing with but I also figure how much trouble can you get into in a 500 seat auditorium, with a fully curtained stage and 10 channels of mics and a bass DI for a bluegrass show? I do know that if I am going to spend $35 for a show with 2 national acts, and 2 bigger regionals, I would expect much higher production levels.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jay Barracato, post: 26037, member: 24"] Re: One of those nights It must be something in the weather,or the phase of the moon. Yesterday, I sat through a one day indoor festival that was the worst display of not having a clue I have seen in a long time. Usually I would just leave, but there were a couple of bands I wanted to see, and the torential downpours knd of helped to keep me in place. This wasn't just a case of "I don't like your idea of a mix", every band that took the stage had technical problems. But none of the problems were insolvable. After the first band, I thought they were just ironing out kinks, after the second band well there were new kinks, after the fifth band we it was clear someone had no clue. Especially after watching one of the two headliners try to get patched and line checked for over 35 minutes. And then stopping in the middle of the set to try to line check again. The front of house mix had frequent, odd, level jumps in many of the channels, Channels were muted or padded at odd times. Several bass amps introduced ground hums. Most of the lower part of the vocal range was mush, and the subs were worse. I try not to comment on others peoples work because you never really know what problems behind the scenes they are dealing with but I also figure how much trouble can you get into in a 500 seat auditorium, with a fully curtained stage and 10 channels of mics and a bass DI for a bluegrass show? I do know that if I am going to spend $35 for a show with 2 national acts, and 2 bigger regionals, I would expect much higher production levels. [/QUOTE]
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