{"id":2178,"date":"2023-03-19T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2178-dialling-in-the-sound.html"},"modified":"2023-03-19T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T04:55:00","slug":"dialling-in-the-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2178-dialling-in-the-sound.html","title":{"rendered":"Dialling in the Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2839 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1971-_G2A4331.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHow hard can it be? Just play with the sliders until the performance sounds great. Easy, right?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOver the last month and a dozen shows I\u2019ve developed a deep respect for the guy or girl driving the sound desk. Faced with changing shows every day and often several different shows in a single day the sound person has to deal with diverse instrumentation, vocal setups including microphones on stands and headset microphones and often difficult venue acoustics.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nComplicate things further with fold-back placement and moving performers with unpredictable feedback risks and that sound engineer is not just technical resource but an active performer in the show.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDespite our strong visually oriented perception of performance it is sound that critically underpins a show. Bad sound distracts and makes us more critical of everything, amazing sound makes us forgiving of even the ugliest performance hiccups.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDialling in the sound is hard and every sound girl or guy sitting behind those sliders is as much a performer as the artists on the stage and deserve all the credit they hardly ever get!<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#performingarts #soundengineering #adlfringe2023 #gluttony #celticsounds #yamaha #yamahaql5 #mixingdesk<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How hard can it be? Just play with the sliders until the performance sounds great. Easy, right? Over the last month and a dozen shows I\u2019ve developed a deep respect for the guy or girl driving the sound desk. Faced with changing shows every day and often several different shows in a single day the &#8230; <a title=\"Dialling in the Sound\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2178-dialling-in-the-sound.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dialling in the Sound\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}