Grumbles of a sound engineer
Yesterday I was at the opening act of SMU's Arts Fest 2006 and boy was it "Exciting"
It's also the first time there's no professionals or Studio Commies doing sound for the event. In short, BE did the sound and it's "amazing"
Why?
1) The system was not properly tuned. Left = Sub, Right = 2 ways... The balance was so off that even CDs sound like ....
2) They use a Hip Hop / Rap CD to test the system, which is bad coz this genre always have F*** You or B**tards etc. What happen if some VIP walked past and hear it...
3) The mix was so bad and the monitor mix worst. How can you perform if you can't hear yourself or worst, the leading instrument, which is the keyboards. In short... Chaos happened. How chaotic? I have musicians complaining to me in english and hokkien or they just say, "never lah... screw up in front of VIP only what. It's ok one =)"
4) The dancers died too... No monitor out for the CD resulting in them hearing from the echoes of the main speakers... I could see them struggling to count time internally...
5) Heyuen didn't sound good at all. They should let him use a handheld instead of the lapels. Less feedback and better sounding and less need for EQing.
K this post is not realli target towards BE but then if your training is still not up to the level, please do not send your troops to die. This is not training on the job, this is dying on the job and with that, your client's event too.
The most important part of any event is always the official openning and closing. If you screw it up, your clients will die.
To any BE ppl reading this post, please learn from this incident instead of saying I'm being bias or jealous or sour or whatever.
You know what you all did. Just learn from it and grow
It's also the first time there's no professionals or Studio Commies doing sound for the event. In short, BE did the sound and it's "amazing"
Why?
1) The system was not properly tuned. Left = Sub, Right = 2 ways... The balance was so off that even CDs sound like ....
2) They use a Hip Hop / Rap CD to test the system, which is bad coz this genre always have F*** You or B**tards etc. What happen if some VIP walked past and hear it...
3) The mix was so bad and the monitor mix worst. How can you perform if you can't hear yourself or worst, the leading instrument, which is the keyboards. In short... Chaos happened. How chaotic? I have musicians complaining to me in english and hokkien or they just say, "never lah... screw up in front of VIP only what. It's ok one =)"
4) The dancers died too... No monitor out for the CD resulting in them hearing from the echoes of the main speakers... I could see them struggling to count time internally...
5) Heyuen didn't sound good at all. They should let him use a handheld instead of the lapels. Less feedback and better sounding and less need for EQing.
K this post is not realli target towards BE but then if your training is still not up to the level, please do not send your troops to die. This is not training on the job, this is dying on the job and with that, your client's event too.
The most important part of any event is always the official openning and closing. If you screw it up, your clients will die.
To any BE ppl reading this post, please learn from this incident instead of saying I'm being bias or jealous or sour or whatever.
You know what you all did. Just learn from it and grow
posted by Prataz at 12:12 PM
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