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Klarinet Archive - Posting 000068.txt from 2003/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Electronic Acoustical Performance (long... from the
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 09:15:52 -0400

At 10:40 PM 7/1/2003 -0700, Kevin Fay wrote:
>...I've often wondered about Bill's tagline - what exactly is it that you
>object to, Bill? Is it excess sound reinforcement or post-Kenton charts?

Yes. :-)

Actually, mostly the over-amplification. Even if the venue is such that
reinforcement is required, the goal should be to make it sound as much as
like an UNamplified acoustical environment as possible.

> There's a nice jazz club here in Seattle called Jazz Alley. It's a fairly
>large bar, which would make it a fairy small auditorium. I saw Maynard
>Ferguson's band there a few years back - everybody amplified, of course.
>While amplifying that band might seem redundant, it had exactly the effect
>that Ben described - the balance was spot on no matter where in the room you
>sat. OTOH, I've heard Eddie Daniels reinforced so high that I had to leave
>- not his fault, but that of the moron diddling the knobs.

Like I said, it CAN be done, it just too seldom IS.

>I don't think that a big band gets much louder than a Mahler symphony, at
>least when one's only a row or two ahead of the trumpets. Perhaps this
>explains why my hair loss started at the back of my head?

The typical Mahler performance has the standard big band outnumbered by 85
musicians or more. They, at least theoretically, SHOULD be able to play
louder! And I think your baldness theory needs further study. You may be
on to somethng!

>. . . if you don't have to mike the saxophones, your trumpets are weak ;-)

Spoken like a brass player! :-)

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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