Klarinet Archive - Posting 000250.txt from 2005/03

From: OhSuzan419@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] excessive amplification
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 23:25:52 -0500

In a message dated 3/6/2005 5:04:42 PM Eastern Standard Time,
el2@-----.edu writes:
I'm even more flabbergasted that many people seem to feel
that it is necessary to amplify drums - and not only with one mike, but
possibly with a half dozen or more
One of the (good) reasons that I know for amplifying drums is that, when it
all gets fed into the mixer, you can actually *reduce* the drum sound -- which,
in my humble experience, is actually easier than trying to get the drummer to
play softly.

Ditto for the brass.

In my current gig (a local production of a Broadway musical) I am playing
oboe, seated next to the trombone, who is in front of the drumset. As we opened
the dress rehearsal, the drummer kicked it up, shall we say, a couple of
notches, to the point where I involuntarily jumped out of my seat.

"But it says "fff"," he said, unapologetically.

This, in a teeny-weeny theatre, where the pit band has been put in the wings
instead of the pit, so as not to drown out the vocalists.

Susan

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