RTP-area local music and culture

["trekky records" <willhack15 AT gmail.com>]

Good points all around. I guess its actually extremely case-by-case.
Some rooms have good PA but are inherently echo-y. Some are good
spaces with terrible equipment/staff to run it. But, you're right, its
usually bearable. I think I'm just dreaming of my fantasy venue, which
is relatively clean, but has personality, has good sound, mid-sized,
the staff is friendly and supportive and the booker likes exactly what
I like.

But GO! is closed of course.

-will

On Apr 5, 3:31 pm, g... AT ibiblio.org (grady) wrote:
> I agree, but honestly, speaking as someone who shoots a fair amount of
> video at shows (and thus gets to listen back to it the next day), the
> crappiest sound I hear lately is at the Cradle. TOO MUCH BASS, and half
> the time the kick drum is all I can hear. (Note that I'm aware of this
> problem at the show, and not just while watching the video later.)
>
> Local 506 & the Coffeehouse usually sound OK, once the person at the PA
> at the Coffeehouse gets the mix under control, which can sometimes take
> a bit of time. Shows at Chaz's actually used to sound pretty good too;
> BCHQ is a little bright n boomy, but they're talking about ways to
> mitigate that.
>
> What's important is that the PA be matched to the size of the room, and
> that, yes, someone with ears & some knowledge of how to run it be put in
> charge of it.  In most small rooms, all you need in the PA is vocals and
> any acoustic instruments, and your biggest problem is getting the
> freaking drummer to not play like [s]he's filling in for Keith Moon at
> Wembley.
>
> I may be less picky than you are, or more punk rock, but all I want is
> to be able to hear everything at more or less the right level. That
> actually happens around the Triangle more often than not, in part
> because a lot of the smaller pick-up venues actually do seem to care at
> least a little bit about sound.
>
> But yeah, I guess I am less picky than you are, because I don't think
> I've ever said "fuckit, I don't like the PA at such-and-such, I'm
> skipping that show." I have so many *other* good excuses to skip shows
> that it just hasn't ever come to that ;-)
>
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