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Re: Why stereo? its a lesser spotted stan......

sound reinforcement guys argue this ad nauseum.

i've played many different sizes of clubs and i've played festivals 
outside.
i've known excellent mixers that refused to go stereo and
excellent mixers that swore by it.

the best mixer i've known loved stereo.
he was the house soundman at a large venue (~2000 capacity)
he could make anybody sound good (or bad if they pissed him off)

i used to run my guitar in stereo and many of the soundmen wanted to run 
mono.
summing reverb to mono can cause nastiness. better to pick a side.
i think reverb (other than spring reverb, which is mono anyway) should be 
added in the mix
this is the main reason i no longer run my guitar in stereo.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kim Flint" <kflint@loopers-delight.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: Why stereo? its a lesser spotted stan......


> At 03:22 PM 7/1/2002, matt ishq wrote:
> >i thought stans were extinct ........no offence stan.
> 
> the vast majority of guitarists that I see just have a guitar plugged 
>into 
> an amp. Maybe a few pedals. no stereo, just like stan.
> 
> >On the subject of stereo......whats wrong with it?
> 
> I think my original question got lost and never really answered. it 
>wasn't 
> "is stereo useful?" or "how do you use stereo?" or "why use stereo?". Of 
> course it makes sense if you are talking about recorded music in 
> headphones, or playing ambient music to 19 people in a cafe. that isn't 
>the 
> question.
> 
> I was wondering about a broader scope of live performance -> Where does 
> stereo work and not work? If it is a large club with 1900 people and a 
>big 
> PA, is a stereo rig useful? What about an outdoor festival? Or even a 
> larger cafe where you are stuck over in the corner somewhere and most of 
> the audience are not in a proper stereo field.
> 
> What i'm wondering is how the stereo effects come across in these 
> situations, since it seems to me most of the audience won't be in a 
>proper 
> stereo field. Is stereo actually useful, pointless, or harmful?
> 
> does it work for all the members of a band to provide a stereo feed in a 
> large club? How would the sound person use that? Would he really pan 
>each 
> member hard left and right? Or would he reposition each person's stereo 
> image in his stereo field? Or would he laugh at you and sum everybody to 
> mono and mix you his way? Does anybody here have real experiences with 
>this 
> to share?
> 
> And then I wondered about dance clubs. When people make dance music 
> intended for listening, it often obviously uses stereo. Sounds nice in 
>the 
> headphones, but that is not the real environment for dance music. what 
> actually happens in real dance clubs?
> 
> kim
> 
> 
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