paulfromcamden
Baffled
Went to a small jazz gig yesterday in a bar down the road. Reminded me that the thing that really impacts sound quality is middle aged blokes who rock up and loudly chat the whole way through the gig...
Was it Miles who used to turn his back on the audience when they did that?Went to a small jazz gig yesterday in a bar down the road. Reminded me that the thing that really impacts sound quality is middle aged blokes who rock up and loudly chat the whole way through the gig...
Well he was certainly turning his back,scratching his ear and inspecting the results then walking off stage out of lack of interest at Hammersmith Odeon in 1960. The audience were hardly disrespectful more reverential.Was it Miles who used to turn his back on the audience when they did that?
Yes, the Royal Concert Hall just is pretty dull and over-damped sounding. Not a great success, acoustically. For orchestral gigs I much prefer to be near the front or it's just a bit dead sounding. I've generally found it decent for amplified gigs - I think venues like that at least tend to avoid the uncontrolled reverberation that can be such a challenge in more sparse halls.Well I've heard both great and terrible gigs in the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow. I find these kinds of venue often over-damped and lifeless sounding.
Depends dunnit. If you're catching the Eurostar to the UK to play a couple of jazz gigs you're probably not going to also bring two trucks worth of PA.Venue install is irrelevent, every tour ive been involved with brought in their own rig.
Big venues/big tours yes, but a lot of smaller venues have their own systems.Venue install is irrelevent, every tour ive been involved with brought in their own rig.
Thank God, I got to old for live rock before the advent of camera phones (I have tinnitus)Live music is always going to be different to what you get from listening to a HiFi - even at carefully chosen gigs without louts pouring beer down your back and holding up phones all the time.
Quite probably The Pink Floyd Experience (they are actually Norwegian), guitarist is a guy called Bjørn Riis who is also in Scandi proggers Airbag plus has released a few of his own solo albums. Pretty good if you like that sort of thing. He also runs a website called Gilmourish which is dedicated to Dave Gilmour's gear and sound. Deffo one for the Floyd geeks.Thank God, I got to old for live rock before the advent of camera phones (I have tinnitus)
One very good sounding live experience comes to my mind. It was Swedish tribute band P Floyd (I think you can guess what band their music is based on). They sounded more or less like the records!
Quite probably The Pink Floyd Experience (they are actually Norwegian), guitarist is a guy called Bjørn Riis who is also in Scandi proggers Airbag plus has released a few of his own solo albums. Pretty good if you like that sort of thing. He also runs a website called Gilmourish which is dedicated to Dave Gilmour's gear and sound. Deffo one for the Floyd geeks.
Ah... different one then!This is the P Floyd I'm referring to:
And it seem to be recorder with the above mentioned camera phones..