Re: Pseudo-intellectual bully with a sound level meter
Good response I think, good luck with it all.
My 2 cents, speaking as a tech who normally mixes rooms so small the stage sound alone hurts my ears, I'm a big advocate of cheap foam earplugs and personal responsibility. (That's not to say I don't still do uncommonly quiet mixes, but there is only so much volume reduction one can achieve in a small room with a drummer - practical limitations, just like punters walking up to your speakers, that's Their choice!).
It's also been my experience people expect/want a certain degree of db from their musical events.
If I played in a orchestra anywhere near the violins or trumpets...or the timpani, I'd wear earplugs, the orchestral beast can Bellow! :-D
