Once upon a time on usenet radams2000@gmail.com wrote:

Putting aside all the expressions of puritanical musical moral
outrage, what I am interested in is whether or not there is s market
for such a device. Sometimes I play jazz jobs and have no mic at all
, the and other times I'm playing in a funk band, and when the
guitar player stomps on his solo switch , I want to do the same. Why
doesn't the guitar player just set his volume higher and then play
more softly? Because when you turn up the volume , you amplify the
hum and noise and fretboard sounds. Same for me, if I set my volume
high and then back off the mic during non-solo periods, it picks up
every little clank and rattle of my 1954 vintage sax, not to mention
all the other Amps and drums around me. So my suggestion is a
practical solution for real-world musicians, and if it violates
someone's concept of a utopian musical world , then I can live with
that.

God-damnned wall-of-text!

If posters can't write properly I'm not reading it. (Yes I realise it's 12 months old.)
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)
(*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

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Once upon a time on usenet geoff wrote:

On 27/04/2015 12:56 p.m., Black Iccy wrote:

But you _do_ have control over yourself. Ideally the others should
contribute equally to the overall performance and that is the
argument being proposed by the people with, let's say, an acoustic
purist appoach.

The scenario I see (happens often, but mostly with teens) is that
cyclicly EVERYBODY ends up turning things up, until everybody is at
"11".
"That naughty sax is getting too prominent, maybe I need a 200W guitar
amp rather than a 100W one". Only a potential 3dB increase, but the
average guitarist doesn't know that.

I used to work with a touring band and our sax player modulated his volume
most of the time by changing how close the mouth of his instrument was to
the mic (as did the trumpet player - he could play 'loud' with a mute in -
"The Royal Scam" sounded amazing). In fact when I started 'mixing' I had to talk to them about it as it made it hard for me to achieve a good sound if
they were varying their volumes themselves.
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)
(*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

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