The drummer was not amplified. And he was the most intense with the greatest felt impact. The bass has a mic at the bridge. The keyboard is electronic.
The bass and keyboard are competent enough they were not trying to play loud to hear themselves.
My aunt Carla White was a scat singer in New York City and made a bunch of recordings. In the 1980s I went to all of her concerts, the first one at the Blue Note. Occasionally she would sing at dive bars. Some had speakers above the stage and it was very odd to watch her sing into a mic and her mouth move 10 feet below where the sound came out.
I once saw her put down the mic and walk off stage because the kitchen staff had a transistor radio playing and she could hear it up on stage.
my aunt Carla White was a scat singer in New York City and made a bunch of recordings. In the 1980s I went to all of her concerts, the first one of the blue note. Occasionally she would sing at dive bars. Some has speakers above the stage and it was very odd to watch her saying into a mic and her mouth move 10 feet below where the sound came out.
I once saw her put down the mic and walk off stage because the kitchen staff had a transistor radio playing and she could hear it up on stage.
I think we measure the wrong thing, but I don't know if the correct measurements are yet possible. Measuring the brain listening to live music and then measuring the recording reproduction's brain reaction to the same music may yield meaningful progress. I am not sure how much electrical impulse and white/pink noise measuring move us to the goal.
I think we all have playback entertainment systems. Not reality systems. And every system is different sounding from every other one.
Do I enjoy my system? Thats my question and I answer it differently at times by being satisfied or tweaking or buying new stuff.
I've been next to an opera singer singing and no system can match the power, dynamics, clarity and there was no sound stage. Just chills up my spine.
