Question from the floor

[knucklehead G]

I have never performed on stage, I am not an engineer or a sound guy. I am standing in the audience at a small club with maybe 50 people packed into a space the size of your average mobile home.

My question is, why do sound guys insist on diming the volume on the four 10' amp stacks at every single show? I normally bring ear plugs to concerts, I just forgot today. I'm sitting here unable to make out the lyrics as a cranked SVT and 810 are backed up by some ungodly PA system and just wondering where this tradition got started. A combo could play most places I go, if the drummer would quiet down a bit, yet its always the same.

Am I missing something here?

[kb9wyz]

If you're missing it, I'm missing it. The only explanation I have ever come up with is that the guy running the board, more often than not, is the first guy to admit he knows how to turn a knob. How many shows have you seen where the EQ'ing of the PA was horrible? My point exactly.

[modulusman]

[quote=knucklehead G;9836738]I have never performed on stage, I am not an engineer or a sound guy. I am standing in the audience at a small club with maybe 50 people packed into a space the size of your average mobile home.

My question is, why do sound guys insist on diming the volume on the four 10' amp stacks at every single show? I normally bring ear plugs to concerts, I just forgot today. I'm sitting here unable to make out the lyrics as a cranked SVT and 810 are backed up by some ungodly PA system and just wondering where this tradition got started. A combo could play most places I go, if the drummer would quiet down a bit, yet its always the same.

Am I missing something here?[/QUOTE]

What you are missing is the fact that the idiot musicians control their amps volume not the soundman.

[knucklehead G]

I just got back from the show and I'm a bit off balance for all the ringing in my ears.. Amazingly enough, once Ludo took the stage the then 75-100 people in the audience were still heard over the PA.