I mean, I understand not being totally able to reproduce studio album recordings even if the musicians are great. But what I don’t understand is the sheer sound quality of live concerts. Even in big venues with rich famous bands the audio sounds badly mixed at best, or an unintelligible noise-soup at worst.
I assume it has to do with the acoustics of outside with tons of amps vs a closed room with stereo speakers. But idk I just play guitar in my bedroom and I’m genuinely puzzled.
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A good thing to understand about live music is that it’s a raw, untreated performance by the artists, that in itself causes a difference in “quality”, and something like a band playing will have different frequencies running through the PA. This frequencies do not spread equally and with the same quality, so let’s say the mix is done by an average that will make the experience good for everybody, but not perfect. The way that sound is mixed is from a place where the house mixing table will be, normally in the middle line of the venue, closer to the back. They mix the sound in prespective the their location, so if you are not close to that place your experience will not be the best. Also, if you are close to a particular speaker you may find yourself listening to a very unbalanced sound, or if you are near the subwoofer you are destined to shake your body all the way through the show, and not earing anything but bass and drum kicks.
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