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    skrev i en meddelelse   
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   > Peter   
      
   Please use a proper usenet client, Netscape 4.7 is good if you can find it   
   and please quote properly.   
      
   > Why so combative over a simple proposal?   
      
   Because you are in my professionel opinion plain wrong. Some of the time   
   being direct sounds blunt, I'm sorry.   
      
   > I've played Jazz for 40 years and know how to use dynamics.   
      
   Then do it. Forget the PA is there. Play as if it isn't there.   
      
   10 dB of gain riding is just a plain annoyance, it is absurdly too much, 0.2   
   to 4 dB might be correct to focus or it might not depending on whether it is   
   first set or third and the audience is half drunk and more noisy. The actual   
   increments used in real mixing can be surprisingly small and some of the   
   time it is just a tweak of a tone control instead of fader movement. That is   
   not something you can replace with a 10 dB stomp box and you shouldn't even   
   try, make music.   
      
   > The PA will sound cleaner if my mic is turned down most   
   > of the time except when I need it. That way it's not picking   
   > up all the other instruments.   
      
   In a narrow sense you are right. In an equally narrow sense it would be   
   technically proper to use autotune, just to make sure that it is in tune   
   with the agreed tuning. But that one concern applies does not make it the   
   optimum decision.   
      
   If the PA can not be left untouched for a jazz concert, then the setup is   
   plain wrong. It is an acoustic event that needs carry under some   
   circumstances, but not a frigging x-factor event where everything is   
   ultraproduced, the PA is there to convey it to the entire room.   
      
      Kind regards   
      
      Peter Larsen   
      
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