bitrman (ineko)/sound in the good ole days...

[scott hansen <evanpeewee@yahoo.com>]

thanks for posting those pics of Eivind Aarset's stage setup/pedals. fun to see what innovative musicians are using out there now.

yes, i will 2nd if you want to get interesting filtered fuzz, the alessis ineko is a great little tool. i used mine extensively when i had it a few yrs ago-mine had the reverb and delay matrix' not working, but the filters and other intersting bit reducing things worked fun for messing up sounds.

and i remember when the bitrman and all those other boxes went on clearance and didn't sell a few yrs ago, probably should have bought one when they were cheap. oh well...

 

as for the "old days sound"....i don't know...i saw springsteen back in march in omaha, and i thought the sound SUCKED!!!! it was way too loud,and just unpleasant to hear.

i saw him on tour for his 90's  solo albums back in '94, and that was a GREAT concert.

and when i saw van halen in '86, the band sounded good, loud, but good, but the vocals were all distorted, i wasn't sure if they were trying to compensate for the loud amp sounds or what.

the funny thing, probably most live music i've heard in the last few yrs has been acoustic/singer/songwriter stuff, and usually the sound at those has been great and intimate, but it's also simple guitar or piano w/ voice...it seems rare that i've heard many bands lately that have a great sound live, it's probably more about inexperienced folks running the sound...

s---

ps-i will also say that when i get out my live hendrix dvds and watch them, i'm amazed at the sound quality, and also hendrix' ability to harness what he did live, he had no monitors, and what i've read pa's back in the 60's were nothing like pa's today, so the mix of sound i think is pretty amazing...but that could also just be that he was that good and knew what he was doing....

pps-the other funny story i remember about live bands and sound in the 60's, this lady i used to work for 20 yrs ago, saw the beatles on their 1st american tour (she was older than i, and was an early teen when they came). she saw them in big football stadium, she said the place was filled w/ teen girls, you couldn't hear a thing (the vox amps not loud enough!) and all she remembered from the concert was some girl behind her was so excited and crazy when they came on, she leaped over a couple of rows of girls to get closer and broke her leg. guess that was the beatlemania hysteria.....