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PS: How much for the decibel meter, and what ranges do you use? I use the Radio Shack digital sound meter, both at our regular dance venue, and at the church I run sound for. $50, and it does a very adequate job. Technical note: for music level purposes, make sure to set the meter on "A" ...

The album went over very well at a little informal balboa practice session on Tuesday, even better than the previous albums, which are among our favorites.

I'll have a chance to spin it for a Lindy audience in two weeks -- I expect it'll be a hit.

Well, to basically close this diversion, a point I forgot to mention is that until that local experience dancing to Mr. Bertolucci, I had never realized it was possible for a drum solo to be danceable. Moving along... one DJing pet peeve of mine is DJs that don't have an ear for sound quality. Not s...

Drum solos to me are just as bad as bass solos. I don't mind them I small doses but after a phrase or 2 it gets old. This brings up an amazing point. Here in Minneapolis we're regularly treated to the live sounds of the Wolverines Jazz Trio, and for the past few months a gentleman by the name of Di...

Brian,

Those were two fantastic links! I learned more than a little from each of them -- though they basically confirmed what I'd found by a bit of trial-and-error and a word of mouth.

Thanks a million!

Brent

Katie, It's hard to say exactly without being there to hear the results, but here's the basics I look for when running sound for live music: Voice intelligibility usually falls in the range of about 1.2kHz to 2kHz -- bump this up if you're having a hard time understanding vocals. This varies from si...

"Bernaise" - Rebecca Kyler Downs from the album Love Me Like Candy. And, well, "Love Me Like Candy", off the same album. And "My Sugar Is So Refined" from the same album. "How Do You Like Your Eggs In The Morning "- Arne Fogel & Maude Hixson from their alb...