[Dixielandjazz] Another PA system nightmare

[Kurt]

A good drummer knows how to play soft and can play soft and adjusts his
volume as required.  It's too bad some of you have had bad experiences with
tasteless drummers that only have one volume setting - loud.  It gives the
rest of us a bad name.

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Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 8:18 AM
To: 'James Kashishian'; dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Cc: 'Elazar Brandt'
Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] Another PA system nightmare


Elazar asked
"What I am considering is finding a small self-contained amp/speaker about
the size of a ghetto blaster with 2 or 3 inputs for vocals and maybe for
banjo. But those are also rather expensive, or at least they are here. I
have used my portable stereo for this purpose with 1 mike and it worked OK,
but even there we had problems."

I too much prefer a unamplified sound(one of the reasons we don't use a
drummer). We had at one stage a gig in an 80 seater restaurant. The closest
diners could share their food and wine easily with us. It was the best gig
and we played there 3 nights a week for over a year. Beautiful food and wine
after each show and full of visitors making it easy to sell a CD or two! All
the band learned to play softly yet still tried to swing, even there, we
used our little pa with just one speaker for vocals . There are some battery
powered jobs that could be just the thing to suit Elazar with his walk
around and outdoor gigs, can anyone on the list make a recommendation?

regards,
Richard Stevens
www.thejazzfactory.net


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