[Dixielandjazz] Sound

[Stan Brager]

What happens all too often is that the sound guy is bored because he's
working a job which is not terribly difficult and, more importantly, he
doesn't really care for the music.

Stan
Stan Brager

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen G Barbone [mailto:barbonestreet at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 9:16 AM
> To: DJML
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Sound
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> Joe Hopkins wrote:
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> ****
> "What I hate is when after playing a tun e and the applause dies
> down ... you grab the mike to thank the crowd or make an announcement
> and the mike has been turned off!! And often you look out there and
> the sound guy has walked away .... very frustrating indeed.
> 
> ****
> 
> Yes, frustrting. Also happens sometimes on a vocal when the singer
> finds the mike off. What works for us is to tell the sound guy to
> leave the vocal mike on all the time, Then we point it up during
> songs, and just point it back to the announcer when the song is over,
> or toward a vocalist when required. Or if there is a switch on the
> vocal mike, we tell him to leave it on at the board and we will
> control it from the bandstand.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
> 
> "Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of
> youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the
> elders."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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