I wonder if it's also an analog thing, in the way not only that sound re-enforcement has changed but also in the DSP of the music; the digital wave tends to be uniform without true analog distortion, and the whole thing is cold, distant, clinical even in live setups.
Absolutely is, in my view. The stages are set to reduce bleed, which is most of the time a good thing but it does reduce what might be called the "natural cohesion" of the way a group's sound behaves in a space. The digital effects might be *too* good at rendering a similar sound every night, regardless of venue, and I'd agree that in many cases it's a clinical sound. Thanks for these insights....
I wonder if it's also an analog thing, in the way not only that sound re-enforcement has changed but also in the DSP of the music; the digital wave tends to be uniform without true analog distortion, and the whole thing is cold, distant, clinical even in live setups.
Absolutely is, in my view. The stages are set to reduce bleed, which is most of the time a good thing but it does reduce what might be called the "natural cohesion" of the way a group's sound behaves in a space. The digital effects might be *too* good at rendering a similar sound every night, regardless of venue, and I'd agree that in many cases it's a clinical sound. Thanks for these insights....