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Re: OT: Peter Gabriel Concert Sound



Title: Re: OT: Peter Gabriel Concert Sound
I saw PG in Detroit and I thought the sound was pretty decent myself.  -I could even understand what PG was saying when he spoke...something I usually have trouble with.  I thought the Blind Boys of Alabama came across well too.

Intelligibility was fine in the Oakland arena, at least my seat, thanks probably to the line arrays. But the midrange sounded sadly distorted quite a bit more often than any previous pg show I've heard. The signature bass drum hit at the end of a few numbers sure did come through, though! And the quieter parts sounded fine.

At arena shows, I imagine Scotty at the FOH, crying "Cap'n! I'm givin' the equalizers all I've got, but we got a problem in the time domain, sir. She canna take much more! You can't just go rewriting the laws of physics, cap'n!" But the 'Us' tour changed my mind about all that, the audio somehow maintained warp factor 9 throughout the episode.
Somehow that wasn't the case last Saturday night.



What I was bummed with was the reaction of the crowd!  Too many polite and quiet people sitting on their hands.  You gotta let the artist feel some love...this was Detroit Rock City for crying out loud!  ha ha  -Todd

Didn't have that problem in Oaktown. He thanked the audience several times for giving them such a good night, and it struck my companions as a comment that seemed to have some real meaning behind it.