From: shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com   
      
   Once upon a time on usenet geoff wrote:   
   > On 27/04/2015 12:56 p.m., Black Iccy wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >   
   > The scenario I see (happens often, but mostly with teens) is that   
   > cyclicly EVERYBODY ends up turning things up, until everybody is at   
   > "11".   
   > "That naughty sax is getting too prominent, maybe I need a 200W guitar   
   > amp rather than a 100W one". Only a potential 3dB increase, but the   
   > average guitarist doesn't know that.   
      
   I used to work with a touring band and our sax player modulated his volume   
   most of the time by changing how close the mouth of his instrument was to   
   the mic (as did the trumpet player - he could play 'loud' with a mute in -   
   "The Royal Scam" sounded amazing). In fact when I started 'mixing' I had to   
   talk to them about it as it made it hard for me to achieve a good sound if   
   they were varying their volumes themselves.   
   --   
   Shaun.   
      
   "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy   
   little classification in the DSM*."   
   David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)   
   (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)