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Re: [ARSCLIST] Not using headphones
On 29/08/06, Marcos Sueiro Bal wrote:
> True, as a blanket statement it is a bit useless. But in a live
> situation, I would almost always deal with a singer that is too loud
> than one that is too soft, and I have encountered the latter far more
> frequently. Few singers can overload an SM-58, although it does
> happen. But if you have a drum kit and rock guitars behind a
> whispering singer... that's when the trouble starts. I see that much
> more with younger perfromers, the ones that have grown up overdubbing
> their vocals, or in a separate vocal booth.
The basic aim of the current style is intimacy.
Microphones have made this possible. Before mics, a singer had to be
audible at the back of the theatre.
>
> There was one young band that played what they called "old-timey"
> music and tried the "old-timey" approach of having just one microphone
> on a [small] stage, which I was looking forward to. It was a disaster:
> their singing could not be heard above their instruments, and they
> said they could not hear themselves. Microphone or not, their balance
> was *acoustically* way off.
Maybe some singing lessons would help.
Regards
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Don Cox
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