[mary: Re: 40th anniversary Gig]

[SHLL (Scott Heller)]

> Hi Scott,
> Glad you had a great time.  Sorry the sound engineer didn't do his job 
> as well as he should have.

<My take is that they did as well as they could have given the awkward acoustics from all the wood around the place.

Well, they have rarely ever had really good sound people have they? Out of all the Hawkwind gigs I have been to, only a few times has the sound really been super where you could really hear all the instruments nicely. For instance, based on hearing some of the recordings in 2009, you can almost not hear niall at all or just barely at any of the gigs. Why is he up there playing guitar if they don't put him in the front of house mix? I think a good sound man, is attentive, watching the band closely, knows the songs, raises the volume of a guitar player when he plays a solo, and brings him back down to an audible level afterwards, same with synth solos, etc... Drum eq was terrible, not due to the hall acoustics at Porchester but lack of proper miking and soundchecking.. my 2 cents.. still the sound was tolerable and upon hearing the recordings a really great show.

<It's a nice venue and I'd go again despite this. What we need are those Hawkwind Ears that Steve talked about. I wonder <if Vulcan Ears could be modified to the purpose with a Squeezy Bottle and some sticky-back plastic.

Where in this universe??

scott
FoFP


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