Klarinet Archive - Posting 000027.txt from 1969/12

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] loud bands
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500

Remember----throughout the entire Big Band Era, bands were not miced. Does that mean that ALL players today are grotesquely incompetent to be heard past the footlights?

-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
>Sent: Jul 14, 2007 11:23 PM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] loud bands
>
>At 05:28 PM 7/13/2007, Rien Stein wrote:
>>It was a couple of events that brought me to my tag line. The first
>>one lays back some 15 years, when in Utrecht was a "roaring 60's
>>night". Man, it was roaring, litterally. It was the first time I saw
>>a jazz band in which every instrument was micked, even though the
>>amplification was only moderate I was really irritated.
>
>That's pretty much what MY tag line is about, too. The big band I
>play in does mic everybody, but mostly for the monitor speakers,
>which are not very loud (sometimes I actually wish they were up a bit
>more!). I'm sure the amplification helps for the outdoor gigs and
>even the large ballroom we often play, but in very small venues we
>sometimes do without. On the whole I'd prefer it that way more of the time.
>
>
>
>Bill Hausmann
>
>If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
>
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