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Thank you for that....

The more I have thought about this, I have to look at the era I ran sound...80's through 91...this was the era of BAD HAIR BANDS...24"-26" bass drums and 8"-12" snare drums...12" snare is cannon...literally...then they used 2B's for drum sticks, (baseball bats)...

I always look at Stewart Copland, played a Jazz kit, 18" bass drum, 5" snare and used 7A drumsticks...he is one of the all time heavy hitters behind the kit, but was never too loud and had great dynamics...he tailored his kit to compensate for how hard he beat those drums...

I had the opportunity to work with a great blues band, who had a drummer that recognized the venue he was playing in and adjusted his dynamics accordingly...With this band we had gig opening for B.B. King, Buddy Guy and Bo Diddley...one of the best gigs I have ever had...very cool...

I had my own system that I rented out to bands and it came with me, so I worked for allot of BAD bands...it was like trying to polish a turd...

My high water mark for a live show sound was Pat Methany at MT State University, he played one of cafeterias during his Off Ramp tour. This was the tour when he first used the Roland Guitar Synthesizer...he had 4 guitars on stands so he could just reach over and play them, start a sequencer loop playing different lines on each one, then went back to the Roland was playing church bells, with a Brazilian Percussionist that had 4 mikes panned around the room...he was waving a sheet of tin moving from mike to mike in one direction and moving his head in opposite direction chanting...it was just a surreal experience...

Thank you for book recommendation and your input...

I still stand by my thoughts on snare drums...setting stage volume...getting the vocals to come through was ALWAYS the priority...

I can respectfully agree to disagree...but hey, that's why they make Fords and Chevys...
take care
Mark

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