From: Daedelus@whereamIinvalid.com   
      
   On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 07:42:22 -0700 (PDT), radams2000@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   >Geof   
   >Thanks for the links, but all those devices have attenuations in the 20-40 db   
   range,   
   >I'm looking for 3-6 db, and easily activated while standing in front of a mic.   
      
   You _really_ think 6 dB will be enough?   
   How soon before you forget to reduce level again?   
      
   >Regarding your comments on how the musical world should ideally be, I have no   
   control over what others do,   
      
   But you _do_ have control over yourself. Ideally the others should contribute   
   equally to the overall performance and that is the argument being proposed by   
   the people with, let's say, an acoustic purist appoach.   
   If " the band" is frequently composed of strangers, then I'd have   
   some sympathy for your predicaments but it sounds like a free-for-all   
   situation with a sound reinforcement process added in.   
      
   Read up on this. It will probably be situationally unobtainable   
   but it should mark out the performance approach to be taken.   
   Section: Mercury Living Presence series   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Records   
      
   >so as a practical matter I need to do what works when I am asked to fill in   
   with a band.   
   >I take it you are not an active musician yourself?   
      
   Sorry, but that's a poor type of response which gets no kudos from me   
   (and I am NOT a musician in case you ask). I used to sit in on a local radio   
   station weekly Jazz recording sessions (early 60's). We had no problem when   
   reducing inputs to a mono recording (no multi channel broadcasts in those   
   days). As for mics, someone mentioned a "bell" ? (yes I know what it means)   
   and if you, yourself, are getting extraneous "spill", a very effective   
   cardiod.   
      
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