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Re: OT: Peter Gabriel Concert Sound
Title: Re: OT: Peter Gabriel Concert
Sound
I saw PG in
Detroit and I thought the sound was pretty decent myself. -I
could even understand what PG was saying when he spoke...something I
usually have trouble with. I thought the Blind Boys of Alabama
came across well too.
Intelligibility was fine in the Oakland arena, at least my seat,
thanks probably to the line arrays. But the midrange sounded sadly
distorted quite a bit more often than any previous pg show I've
heard. The signature bass drum hit at the end of a few numbers sure
did come through, though! And the quieter parts sounded fine.
At arena shows, I imagine Scotty at the FOH, crying "Cap'n!
I'm givin' the equalizers all I've got, but we got a problem in the
time domain, sir. She canna take much more! You can't just go
rewriting the laws of physics, cap'n!" But the 'Us' tour changed
my mind about all that, the audio somehow maintained warp factor 9
throughout the episode.
Somehow that wasn't the case last Saturday night.
What I was bummed with was the reaction of the crowd!
Too many polite and quiet people sitting on their hands.
You gotta let the artist feel some love...this was Detroit Rock
City for crying out loud! ha ha -Todd
Didn't have that problem in Oaktown. He thanked the audience
several times for giving them such a good night, and it struck my
companions as a comment that seemed to have some real meaning behind
it.
