On 13/05/2012 20:20, Richard L. Hess wrote:
> But Ted, there are people on this list who can do it.
>
> It does boggle my mind how hard it is to find people interested in
> running sound reinforcement at our church, and of those interested,
> how few can master simple EQ (essentially required with headworn mics
> due to random placement issues).
>
> On 2012-05-13 2:49 PM, Ted Kendall wrote:
>> Agreed. The number of operators I have some across who just don't
>> understand the commonplaces of analogue tape practice beggars belief...
>
Of course there are people on this list who can do it, and, being a
self-selecting sample, they probably constitute a disturbingly large
proportion of the people who can. And that is my point. Compared to the
number of man-hours required to salvage that which should be salvaged,
the man-hours left in all of them wouldn't go far.
The broader point on which you touch is one of learning to listen
intelligently. Today's tyros are so bombarded with visual information as
soon as they touch any digital equaliser that they don't form the
association between presence and the upper-mid, for example. Maybe not
encountering audio which is not ostensibly "perfect" also has something
to do with it - if one has endured dirty heads or skew-whiff azimuth, as
we have, one recognises it a mile off, but this experience is denied the
iPod generation.
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