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Author: Filipe T.
Date: 2001-09-17 23:38
OK, this may seem really weird to U guys:
Whenever I'm playing in band, my sound really well, I get a clean sound and it feels very easy to play(the band room is VERY hot) . But when I play in my room or at my church, I don't sound as well, I get a fuzzier sound, ( my room and my church all have the same temperature, 23 C or less). does me playing well in band have to do with the very hot room????
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2001-09-18 00:15
I'm guessing the air temperature has a slight effect on it, but I think it's more the band room is designed for music, while churches and bedrooms weren't designed that way. Every room is different.
I sound better in a bandroom, and it's like stepping into an icebox (It's about 60 F, damn Farenheit people.)
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Author: Jim
Date: 2001-09-18 05:04
The sound will even change as you move around the room. Try playing in a tile bathroom, or singing in a car. (Don't play and drive at the same time, I think there's a law against that!)
Churches often are designed for things other than acoustics. I'm lucky, our church is pretty good. Often the sound seems to get lost in the high ceiling areas.
There's a new elem school near us with a cafetorium that might be the worst place for sound I've encountered. Our community band played there last year. We heard the sound just fine on stage, it was actually too loud there. Not a bit seemed to get out to the audience. We'll never play there again.
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Author: Richard
Date: 2001-09-18 19:33
Not wanting to really embarass myself, but I always practise in my bathroom or kitchen, because they have tiled walls, and my sound always seems nicer in them....it's just an ego boost I think.
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Author: mike
Date: 2001-09-18 21:54
I've always tried to practice in "dead" places with the idea that this really forces me to make the sound as good as possible w/o an external "help". I figure any extra reverb and presence in actual playing situations is just all that much better (within reason, of course).
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Author: Meri
Date: 2001-09-18 23:20
I find I play better when the room is slightly chilly...
However, we have to learn deal will all kinds of acoustical and temperature conditions, as in remembering to check your breathing when playing in a hot, humid environment. By focussing on what's most relevant--the music!
Meri
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Author: Bob Curtis
Date: 2001-09-23 01:37
Temperature will have something to do with it, but primarily it is how the room is constructed. Acoustics in a "normal" church building which are not constructed with good acoustical sound treatment really are not condusive to good instrumental sound production. Some of the more modern building are taking this into consideration when they incorperate an acoustical engineer into the construction planning stage. The same is true with a performance hall, because they are constructed to produce the very BEST sound possible. By the way, when I was young I used to love to practice in the bathroom -- small area which really focused the sound. My folks would not let me practice where they were because I sounded so bad.
Bob Curtis
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Author: Dee
Date: 2001-09-23 12:38
Bob Curtis wrote:
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> ... By the way, when I was young I used to love to
> practice in the bathroom -- small area which really focused the
> sound. My folks would not let me practice where they were
> because I sounded so bad.
ROFL! When I was a kid, I also had to practice in the bathroom. Not because I sounded bad (actually sounded good, my parents would have me play for friends and relatives) but because it was at the end of our mobile home and thus the farthest away from the living room so that the rest of the family could watch TV or whatever without too much disturbance.
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