[Dixielandjazz] sound gripes

[philwilking]

>From your mouth to every musician's ear.

There is also a tendency to blast to drown out the twits in the audience who 
want to have vigorous conversations instead of listening to you. I would 
think that the rest of the audience will shut them up if you play well 
enough.

PHIL WILKING

Those who would exchange freedom for
security deserve neither freedom nor security.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ministry of Jazz" <jazzmin at actcom.net.il>

>  [Note: the way I taught my
> players to play balanced is, when they complained to me that we need a 
> sound
> system because they couldn't hear this or that instrument or voice, I 
> would
> tell them, "Do you know what that means? It means YOU are playing too 
> loud.
> Play so you can hear everyone else, and then we will work on raising the
> overall volume when we need to."]
>