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In Reply to: RE: Honestly posted by E-Stat on June 09, 2016 at 13:54:15
In the summer of 2000 I had the Dave Mason Band live sounding like a studio recording, fully mixed and mastered.
This was outdoors at the old stage area at Ironstone Vineyards. It has a stage area under the oak trees across the creek from a terraced lawn seating area going up to the winery. (not the outdoor amphitheater they use now)
After the show the concert manager for Ironstone came up and ask me if I worked for the production company (the company that supplies the PA, etc) or Dave.
He wanted to hire me to mix the rest of the summers concerts.
He said he knew the band was playing live but it sounded like a fully produced CD.
My point is, if it's a good venue with a decent PA, the FOH mixer can make up for a lot of shortcomings and make the hair on the back of your neck stand up if he knows what he's doing and has an ear.
I'm sorry you never got to experience that. It's been my experience that a lot of FOH mixers kind of "mail it in".
Not me, for the 14 months I mixed FOH for Dave (and all the other live shows I've mixed) I paid attention every moment and "mixed the show" just as I would if I were in the studio doing a "live to 2 track" recording.
I hit all the cues. The lead breaks, the organ solos, the spot in that one song where the reverb needs to come up to emphasize the phrase, etc, etc, etc.
Most FOH mixers seem to be "set it and forget it" mixers.
Oh well.
Tre'
Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
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I spent a lot of time seeing jam-bands around 2K (DMB, Phish, Mule, Allman Bros, etc), and I probably heard your DMB mix. Some of that was flipping fantastic for outdoor ampitheater settings and that era seems to be the high-water mark.
The concert attending audience appreciates attentive FOH engineers. And we deplore the "mail it in" variety.
My point is, if it's a good venue with a decent PA
is as rare as a unicorn. Forget all the big ticket bands.
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