REPORT: =vh = to headline australian festival april 20-21

[PETE'S BROTHER]

[ATTACH]9733[/ATTACH]On my way....

how ya feelin' today?

[Nickdfresh]

! Wrong tweet...

[vandeleur]

Hey hey nicd is blue again :D

[Zing!]

I'd pay $100 to see a Twitter pic of that fuckin' floor dropping from the plane's cargo hold over the Pacific.....

Need no polar bear to scare me no Eskimo to share with me his fate WOW we outta thanks!

[sambo]

REPORT: =vh = to headline australian festival april 20-21

how ya feelin' today?

Weary...

Dave was great. I was right in front of Ed so the bass did not seem too bad. Al got drowned out for the best part. Wolf was loud and by the time jump came on the sound was pretty muddy.

For the record... Aeroshite was good actually, but CVH just jumped into Unchained first song and it was pretty much over. Fuck the haters...

Dave was great...

[ELVIS]

Dave was great...

All I needed to hear...

Thanks...

Now, I gotta do some work...

[Fairwrning]

Thanks for the show info..was looking forward to looking it up this morning.

[vandeleur]

Need no polar bear to scare me no Eskimo to share with me his fate WOW we outta thanks!

Class :D

[Terry]

It seems nobody can handle stage sound anymore these days, even professionals...

I just hope things aren't as bad as some of the audience may say.

Big thanks to sambo ( what a weird username btw ) and poison99 for sharing!

It's something I've certainly noticed in the last decade or so: roughly half the shows I've been to, both indoor arenas and outdoor ampitheaters, have had shitty sound mixing. And it wasn't really a case of it being uniformly shitty at one particular venue. Case in point: In 2008 at the St. Pete Times forum, Van Halen sounded pretty bad. Not just for the first few songs, either, where it could have been a case of needing to work the kinks out at the mixing board. The bass was virtually inaudible, the lead vocals were a bit too low and the guitar was overwhelming in the mix. Four years later, same band and same venue, and the sound was fine from the first song to the last.
And this lack of sound quality wasn't restricted to Van Halen, either.

[katina]

I had a great time, I had to take my computer to my work, and stopped many times to keep up to the show, LOL
And also run out of thanks.

[VHscraps]

It's something I've certainly noticed in the last decade or so: roughly half the shows I've been to, both indoor arenas and outdoor ampitheaters, have had shitty sound mixing. And it wasn't really a case of it being uniformly shitty at one particular venue. Case in point: In 2008 at the St. Pete Times forum, Van Halen sounded pretty bad. Not just for the first few songs, either, where it could have been a case of needing to work the kinks out at the mixing board. The bass was virtually inaudible, the lead vocals were a bit too low and the guitar was overwhelming in the mix. Four years later, same band and same venue, and the sound was fine from the first song to the last.
And this lack of sound quality wasn't restricted to Van Halen, either.

Although I am not a member myself, I've been lurking over at VHlinks to check on what members who were at the gig are saying. One dude, Goo, said the VH sound was a bit off, but Aerosmith were fine in terms of the mix etc. So, his view was that it wasn't the venue to blame for sound issues.

So, the person manning the mixing desk needs new ears or summat. It's a three piece band and vox - I know fuck all about that, but I've seen bands with 15-20 pieces (brass, strings, percussion) and you find peeps who are perfectly capable of making it sound good.

[jhale667]

It's something I've certainly noticed in the last decade or so: roughly half the shows I've been to, both indoor arenas and outdoor ampitheaters, have had shitty sound mixing. And it wasn't really a case of it being uniformly shitty at one particular venue. Case in point: In 2008 at the St. Pete Times forum, Van Halen sounded pretty bad. Not just for the first few songs, either, where it could have been a case of needing to work the kinks out at the mixing board. The bass was virtually inaudible, the lead vocals were a bit too low and the guitar was overwhelming in the mix. Four years later, same band and same venue, and the sound was fine from the first song to the last.
And this lack of sound quality wasn't restricted to Van Halen, either.

It's weird: Sound reinforcement technology has advanced in the last couple of decades, but the ability to run it is seemingly declining... lost count of how many shows I've seen where I wanted to kill the soundguy...

[PETE'S BROTHER]

Although I am not a member myself, I've been lurking over at VHlinks to check on what members who were at the gig are saying. One dude, Goo, said the VH sound was a bit off, but Aerosmith were fine in terms of the mix etc. So, his view was that it wasn't the venue to blame for sound issues.

So, the person manning the mixing desk needs new ears or summat. It's a three piece band and vox - I know fuck all about that, but I've seen bands with 15-20 pieces (brass, strings, percussion) and you find peeps who are perfectly capable of making it sound good.

kool and the gang were fun, huh?

[TJMKID]

So, the person manning the mixing desk needs new ears or summat. It's a three piece band and vox - I know fuck all about that, but I've seen bands with 15-20 pieces (brass, strings, percussion) and you find peeps who are perfectly capable of making it sound good.

I'm not a sound engineer, either --- but in today's world of digital equipment why can't some dweeb place 20 microphones around the venue during soundcheck and let a computer calibrate the proper levels for all the instruments and mic and have it sound good anywhere in the arena/stadium?

[Jérôme Frenchise]

It's something I've certainly noticed in the last decade or so: roughly half the shows I've been to, both indoor arenas and outdoor ampitheaters, have had shitty sound mixing. And it wasn't really a case of it being uniformly shitty at one particular venue. Case in point: In 2008 at the St. Pete Times forum, Van Halen sounded pretty bad. Not just for the first few songs, either, where it could have been a case of needing to work the kinks out at the mixing board. The bass was virtually inaudible, the lead vocals were a bit too low and the guitar was overwhelming in the mix. Four years later, same band and same venue, and the sound was fine from the first song to the last.
And this lack of sound quality wasn't restricted to Van Halen, either.

The young sound technicians and engineers I've "worked" (I only sing amateurly in a rock band) with almost all had the same shitty way of mixing guitar/bass/drums/vocals in local festivals and small (1000 seats max) venues, which is the way [supposed to be] better professionals do... I've noticed the same in bigger events, always complained about the same old compression that invariably spoils the rendition of music performances. Sound boards have become more and more convenient, but it seems sound engineering has grown poorer and poorer - but then maybe we have all grown deafer and deafer
There must be some explnation somewhere in the training of sound technicians and engineers I reckon.