[Carey Carlan]

I hate theatres! Nasty dry acoustics and overbearing HVAC. No place for a
proper all-acoustic concert.

This week's neat trick is to take a standard (2-4 second) hall reverb and
shrink it to about 2/3 (.66) seconds and mix it very sparingly into the
final mix. Such a short time is barely noticeable but it really opens the
sound.

Otherwise, you hear each hesitant squeak of performers oppressed by the
lack of response from the hall. The reverb glues it all together and takes
you out of that ugly hall into a more reasonable venue without trying to
become Carnegie Hall.