Happened to me once. I did not know who he was in told him so. It’s possible the guy was bluffing. He claimed to be some state senator.

  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Yes. Running sound for a concert in THE shittiest sounding room (concrete cube). I warned them how bad the sound is and I’ll do everything I can but in the end the room is awful and there is no way around it, we will do the best we can without getting screaming feedback.

    Singer of this band was a real cock. Literally said (not jokingly) “I’m famous you know”. Wanted a monitor pointed directly at him blasting obscenely loud (louder than the mains) while he played acoustic guitar and did vocals. If any of you have dealt with a stage monitor pointing directly into a guitar sound hole, you know how bad this is. And he wanted it louder.

    Walked right past me at the end of the show , totally ignored me. At least the rest of the band was decent. But that guy was really full of himself.

    I’m not a pro mixer. But ive heard pros in that space and it sounded just as horrible. You can’t fix a bad room with tech.

      • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        2 days ago

        Common misconception, foam will do nothing to capture mid to lower frequencies. Those square black panels guitar center sells? Absolute hogwash shit. All that does is maybe suck up a tiny amount of the only good high frequencies you have.

        No, true room treatment is bass traps, 705 panels, large ceiling hung diffusion panels etc.

        6 figures easily with this stuff. Which is why most places do not bother even though terrible sounding rooms create fatigue and are awful to be in. A lot like modern houses. They sound horrid inside due to giant square boxes, no wood surfaces (drywall sounds awful), steel beams instead of wood, not even any popcorn ceiling to help a little with diffusion.

        I always wanted to do acoustic education/installation for folks, but its too costly, its not somethibg they can “see” results of so its a dead business unless you only do mega churches. Really a shame, as its such an important thing psychologically