[Peter Larsen[_3_]]

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Peter

Please use a proper usenet client, Netscape 4.7 is good if you can find it
and please quote properly.

Why so combative over a simple proposal?

Because you are in my professionel opinion plain wrong. Some of the time
being direct sounds blunt, I'm sorry.

I've played Jazz for 40 years and know how to use dynamics.

Then do it. Forget the PA is there. Play as if it isn't there.

10 dB of gain riding is just a plain annoyance, it is absurdly too much, 0.2
to 4 dB might be correct to focus or it might not depending on whether it is
first set or third and the audience is half drunk and more noisy. The actual
increments used in real mixing can be surprisingly small and some of the
time it is just a tweak of a tone control instead of fader movement. That is
not something you can replace with a 10 dB stomp box and you shouldn't even
try, make music.

The PA will sound cleaner if my mic is turned down most
of the time except when I need it. That way it's not picking
up all the other instruments.

In a narrow sense you are right. In an equally narrow sense it would be
technically proper to use autotune, just to make sure that it is in tune
with the agreed tuning. But that one concern applies does not make it the
optimum decision.

If the PA can not be left untouched for a jazz concert, then the setup is
plain wrong. It is an acoustic event that needs carry under some
circumstances, but not a frigging x-factor event where everything is
ultraproduced, the PA is there to convey it to the entire room.

Kind regards

Peter Larsen