From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018040821341719528-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > As I have become more and more frustrated at the resistance, I have   
   > alienated band girl.   
      
   Why's that? Does she actually want it too loud also?   
      
   > We did a band job today.  Got lots of compliments on  ..... our volume   
   > .... and the lights.  Lots of compliments.  Unsolicited.  I didn't have to   
   > twist anyones arms to have them say something.  And not just to me, I'm   
   > sure the others heard the same things.   
      
   Looks like you've got the right levels then.   
      
   > Oh, and we used the in ears. For the first time after two years of excuses   
   > and other bullshit.   
      
   > And totally as expected it was beyond obvious they worked wonderfully.   
      
   I've no doubt that they work well, because I've already experienced   
   that...it's only the discomfort issue with me - how to let my ears 'breathe'   
   i.e. have dry air circulated in them.   
      
   > There's nothing left to say on that topic. No one who's ACTUALLY tried   
   > these is likely to fault them   
      
   Maybe I should  do a search for the most comfortable ones.   
      
   > But dragging their sorry asses to this point was a massive fight, and   
   > maybe the band won't survive. I'm pretty jaded now.  I've been yelled at,   
   > told in every indirect way possible that I don't know what I'm talking   
   > about.  That will leave a scar.   
      
   WHY are they doing that?   
      
   > They have behaved like children, throwing a stubborness tantrum.  I've had   
   > every lame excuse imaginable thrown at me.  And all over just plain ego.   
   > They don't believe we sound better to the audience.  They ( have been )   
   > going by what the stage sounds like. And here's the thing, everyone up   
   > there can't be the loudest thing on the stage.   
      
   Is that all it is? Everyone wants to be louder than everyone else?   
      
   All I know is that when I play, I MUST CLEARLY hear everyone, and that   
   means myself too.   
      
   We had another combined service yesterday, our "American Baptist" church and   
   the  "Lutheran" church we share the building with, and our church band was   
   shorthanded - just the guitar player and myself. We were about 30' apart and   
   I was having difficulty hearing him, so I had to play quietly, not an easy   
   thing to do on an acoustic piano, so that I could hear his guitar - it was a   
   challenge, once again.   
   I just can't imagine any SANE person wanting to be the loudest, when that   
   means they can't hear the  rest of the band, which is Absolutely Vital!   
      
   > We were complimented today specifically that our vocals sounded great.   
      
   Our church band was complimented a lot yesterday too, but it shouldn't have   
   had to be such a Needless challenge.   
      
   > Well, duh.  Maybe just turning everything up until it's a roaring train   
   > wreck isn't how " running the sound " work ?   
      
   > I'm fed up with it.   
      
   Jim   
      
   I know that feeling all too well.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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