"MiNE 109" wrote in message


In article ,
"Arny Krueger" wrote:

Fact: Many musicians seem to think that they are God's gift to
audio, when in fact most of them can't reliably hear gross
differences, let alone small ones. Musicians should never hear what
sound techs typically say about setting monitor levels for most of
them, as it would shatter their precious little egos. Musos
typically can't tell if you jack up monitor levels up or down by 3
dB. In the quality audio cosmic scheme of things a 3 dB defense is
IMMENSE, and typically they can't hear it.

What does "quality audio" have with monitor levels?

The point is that many musos can't hear relatively large differences in the
character of reproduced sound.

Presumably you're
talking about a rock band or the church equivalent in a noisy
environment, or they wouldn't need monitors at all.

One ends up using monitors for reasons that have nothing to do with rock n'
roll or high ambient noise levels. For example, there are electronic
instruments that aren't guitars or drums. For example there's a fair amount
of singing with pre-recorded accompaniments. Then there are acoustical
asymmetries and acoustical instruments that don't have much oomph 80 feet
away in a room with suboptimal acoustics.

Tell me Stephen, when was the last time you were in a reasonably up-to-date
medium-to-large evangelical church? Sounds like we're gonna be enumerating
in decades...

Sure, the singer
with a finger in one ear and the Holy Spirit in the other might have
trouble distinguishing the relative level of his mix amidst the
cacophony (tip o' the pin to George) but let the battery in the
guitar player's distortion box run down and he'll be all over his rig
before you can say "Melchezedec".

Stephen, I think Marc Phillips showed more insight into what happens in a
modern evangelical church when he painted a picture of masses of Baptists
and Methodists proudly fingering their prayer beads...