From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018091901191496259-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Scaling.  It's about zones of sound.  Like heating a building, not every   
   > part needs the same amount of heat directed to it.   
      
   Those who are always cranking too loud fail to realize that the Power   
   control on the amp is called not Power, but rather VOLUME for a reason - to   
   Match the average sound pressure level to the VOLUME of the area! More   
   space, i.e. Volume, requires More acoustic Energy i.e. Power, to fill it to   
   the  same average level than an area of Less space, Less Volume, which   
   requires Less Energy - Less Power, a SMALLER number on the VOLUME knob - but   
   then they also fail to realize that the Volume knob can be turned   
   Counterclockwise as well as clockwise!!!   
      
   > There's no reason at all to have to be blasting loud onstage. No reason at   
   > all.   
      
   Unless the objective is to cause Hearing Loss!   
      
   > If a venue is that big, then use the FOH pa to reach that audience a   
   > football field away. Don't try and do that from onstage.   
      
   Yes, and that's another thing - to achieve the proper average SPL, for a   
   larger area, an area of greater Volume, the Volume control does need to be   
   rotated Clockwise i.e. turned up, but that also means it's more Dangerous   
   regarding hearing loss, to be at the same distance from the   
   radiators/speakers as was the case when in a smaller area - due to the   
   Inverse Square Law.   
      
   > No serious sound person would try that.   Guitar players ... maybe they   
   > would.   
      
   It would be SOOOO Wonderful if it was always possible to use only One sound   
   system to serve as both stage monitor and FOH, but unfortunately, such ideal   
   conditions i.e. practically 'perfect' placement of and distance from the   
   speakers,FOR EVERYONE, the  band And audience, are so very few and far   
   between if even ever at all...which necessitates the use of  Two sound   
   systems - stage monitors And FOH.   
      
   IEMs can approach this ideal, but at a price, in addition to their cost -   
   having to endure them being stuck in the ears...but I believe that the   
   proper placement of mini monitors in close proximity to each performer could   
   also accomplish essentially the same thing.   
      
   > Someone said 90% of musicians don't understand acoustics at all.  I   
   > believe that.   
      
      
   JimD   
      
   I've worked in the electroacoustics field for 11 years and also rebuilt   
   ('reconed') loudspeakers and have observed that at very least it's 90%+ who   
   don't understand sound at all.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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