Quote Originally Posted by StanleyB View Post
I would have to disagree with you big time.

What you hear at a concert often bears no resemblance to what you hear in a recording studio. Very few times do the artists hurdle together as they do on stage, are the mics in the same position as on stage, and is the nearest wall as far away as on stage.
On top of that, the recordings in a studio are of a different nature than that experienced by one's ears from a stage performance. The recording engineer in the studio has to battle with signal overload on one end of his VU meter scale, and too low an output for some sounds to be heard at the other end. So he keeps having to adjust the signal levels from the various audio inputs as the music keeps rolling. That doesn't happen on stage.


Stan
May have misunderstood you here Stan, but at a live performance the sound engineer will be adjusting levels all the way through - e.g for a song that commences with just vocal and strummed electric guitar (before drums, bass etc kick in) level will be increased for the guitar when playing alone and then dropped back as it becomes rythem accompaniment again.

Agree that live and studio performances are totally different animals, though

Martin