Mixing good artists with bad PAs makes me sad. Like eating fillet steak and eating it well-done with ketchup.
I hear what you are saying about ear damage... I have started wearing earplugs regularly now. Only some cheapo ones, but they still make a hell of a difference. I am seriously considering buying some custom-moulded ones because for a couple of hundred quid it is definitely worth it. Some clubs I have been to actually have little earplug-dispenser machines... how thoughtful :) > Strange, I thought the one thing that spoiled the gig a small amount > generally but Convextion's > set particularly was the PA. It's > not that I didn't think it was decent, the promoter had obviously done the > right thing, spent his > pennies and got a decent rig. > However the sound was so harsh it was almost painful. Maybe this wasn't so > noticeable at the > front (it was an unusual set up with > the main speakers at the back at the other side of the room from and facing > toward the artists, > with only their monitors up front) > but it was at the back (or in the middle where I was). I don't know if > they'd not done a sound > check or - if as it seemed - there > was just nobody looking after the sound but it spoiled things for me - some > amazing Basic Channel > sounds which I should have been > jumping to were making me wince instead. Just far too much top end and > although it was really > loud no feeling of real bottom end. > I left after Convextion (which was amazing and I did enjoy despite this moan) > because although I > wanted to see Pendle Coven who were > on last (really wanted to see them) I was worried about my ears. With good > cause too as they were > ringing for several hours > afterwards. > Here in the UK we are for some reason supposed to constantly put up with poor > sound. It just > doesn't seem to get the attention or > be as high up on the list of priorities as it does abroad. Maybe this is a > false impression I > have generated by being lucky in only > visiting some places with really good sound when travelling - but I doubt it. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 09 March 2007 11:03 >> >> Convextion was brilliant in a different way, faster more >> electro based with that control of echo and delay that needs >> a decent PA to do it justice (which thankfully they had). > >
