Re: [Harp-L] Greunling/Guyger Tour Last Night- playing the room

[Jonathan McAnulty <mcanultj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This does bring up another topic. How do you do this? If you have a good 
sound man it should work out, I would hope. But, in the absence of a 
sound guy it is pretty hard (in my very few experiences of this kind- 
you can count my public gigs on one hand) to know what volume will come 
across correctly. When I have gone in ahead of time to test the room it 
hasn't exactly guaranteed success. At my last performance, I had my wife 
act as the sound check person during the performance and just signal for 
more or less volume relative to the other players. Not exactly a 
sophisticated approach.
Just curious how you guys go about this.
Jon

IcemanLE@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Musicians should learn to "play the room". In other words, really hear  the 
> acoustics/volume in real time and make adjustments, the room being another  
> factor not to be ignored.
>  
> If the room is hard surface with a lot of reflected sound and natural echo,  
> then play at an even lower volume to compensate.
>  
> The Iceman
>  
>  
> In a message dated 3/18/2008 3:05:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> jamesbell@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> The  Greunling gig would have been  
> a lot quieter had it not been for the  acoustics of the room, which  
> was a converted warehouse space with  exposed brick walls.
>
>
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