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Once upon a time on usenet geoff wrote:
On 27/04/2015 12:56 p.m., Black Iccy wrote:

But you _do_ have control over yourself. Ideally the others should
contribute equally to the overall performance and that is the
argument being proposed by the people with, let's say, an acoustic
purist appoach.



The scenario I see (happens often, but mostly with teens) is that
cyclicly EVERYBODY ends up turning things up, until everybody is at
"11".
"That naughty sax is getting too prominent, maybe I need a 200W guitar
amp rather than a 100W one". Only a potential 3dB increase, but the
average guitarist doesn't know that.


I used to work with a touring band and our sax player modulated his volume
most of the time by changing how close the mouth of his instrument was to
the mic (as did the trumpet player - he could play 'loud' with a mute in -
"The Royal Scam" sounded amazing). In fact when I started 'mixing' I had to
talk to them about it as it made it hard for me to achieve a good sound if
they were varying their volumes themselves.
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