[Dixielandjazz] A Good Rule For Volume

[Bill Allen]

A good rule indeed.

A local group that plays almost all the good high dollar wedding receptions
in this town puts ALL instruments, even bass and guitar, into the sound
board, uses electronic drums, and all the musicians wear earplug monitors.
There is not a single amp on stage; only the mixer and house speakers.  You
can carry on a conversation 10 feet in front of the band stand.
 Although they play "modern" music, not OKOM, I think many of us can learn a
lesson from them.

 ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "billsharp" <sharp-b at clearwire.net>
To: "Mr. Bill" <ballen at deltapathology.com>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 3:14 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] A Good Rule For Volume


> Years ago I left a 50's-60's rock group I was playing in because, as
> they began getting more and more work, they began thinking that they
> had to play louder.. Perhaps it was because the  steadily increasing
> volumes were causing steadily increasing hearing losses. Loved playing
> the tunes - -hated the volume.
>
>   I had begun to notice that people who at one time were able to
> comfortably talk to one another at a comfortable standing distance were
> later on in our events, as we got "better" (i.e. louder) having to lean
> into one another and put their mouths next to another person's ear in
> order to tell them something, then have to swap ear-to-mouth to get an
> answer.  Something was wrong with this picture.  The only time I want
> my mouth that close to another person's ear is to whisper sweet
> nothings.   ( And these days that's easy for me because I mostly have
> nothing to say)
>
> It was then that I developed the motto I've applied to every group I've
> had any control over, regarding volume:
>
> ALLOW THEM TO HEAR YOU - -DON'T MAKE THEM HEAR YOU.
>
> Have the volume set at a level so that perhaps they might want to ask
> you to turn it up, but never the opposite.
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