These guys still know how to rock.

Mrs.E and I went to see them a couple of years ago at the beginning of the
"Licks" tour at the Fleet Center in Boston. It was horrible because of the
disgusting sound system at the Center.

This performance was actually better, sound-wise.

RCE

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 20:20:43 -0500, "RCE" wrote:



These guys still know how to rock.

Mrs.E and I went to see them a couple of years ago at the beginning of
the
"Licks" tour at the Fleet Center in Boston. It was horrible because of
the
disgusting sound system at the Center.

This performance was actually better, sound-wise.

hard to believe huh?

For a guy born in 1943? You betcha. He's got the body and energy of a 35
year old.

RCE

"RCE" wrote in message
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These guys still know how to rock.

Mrs.E and I went to see them a couple of years ago at the beginning of
the "Licks" tour at the Fleet Center in Boston. It was horrible because
of the disgusting sound system at the Center.

This performance was actually better, sound-wise.

RCE


That's the band's fault. Any band that has the desire and the budget can
bring in whatever equipment they want and make almost any hall sound good.
The Stones have never really cared much about their sound. The Dead, on the
other hand, were able to produce breathtaking sound back in the early 1970s,
simply by trying, and hooking up with the appropriate sound geeks (a company
named Alembic, which is still around).

The knowledge has been passed on to bands like String Cheese Incident, who
does a fantastic job with their sound, even in outdoor locations, which are
usually difficult. They have no shows scheduled at the moment, but check in
the spring and see if they're going to be near you:

www.stringcheeseincident.com

"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"RCE" wrote in message
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These guys still know how to rock.

Mrs.E and I went to see them a couple of years ago at the beginning of
the "Licks" tour at the Fleet Center in Boston. It was horrible because
of the disgusting sound system at the Center.

This performance was actually better, sound-wise.

RCE


That's the band's fault. Any band that has the desire and the budget can
bring in whatever equipment they want and make almost any hall sound good.
The Stones have never really cared much about their sound. The Dead, on
the other hand, were able to produce breathtaking sound back in the early
1970s, simply by trying, and hooking up with the appropriate sound geeks
(a company named Alembic, which is still around).

The knowledge has been passed on to bands like String Cheese Incident, who
does a fantastic job with their sound, even in outdoor locations, which
are usually difficult. They have no shows scheduled at the moment, but
check in the spring and see if they're going to be near you:

www.stringcheeseincident.com


You may be right. My son saw James Taylor at the Fleet Center and said it
was fantastic.
The Stones play too loud.

Hey .... did youse guys know that they actually introduce a low level of
distortion (called dither) to CD recordings in order to make them sound
good? Without it, low volume passages on CDs would be noticeably distorted
because of the low digital sampling rate. More useless information.

RCE

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 20:51:21 -0500, "RCE" wrote:

Hey .... did youse guys know that they actually introduce a low level of
distortion (called dither) to CD recordings in order to make them sound
good? Without it, low volume passages on CDs would be noticeably
distorted
because of the low digital sampling rate. More useless information

didnt know that...

and now you do. Ain't wrecked.boats wonderful?

RCE

"RCE" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"RCE" wrote in message
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These guys still know how to rock.

Mrs.E and I went to see them a couple of years ago at the beginning of
the "Licks" tour at the Fleet Center in Boston. It was horrible
because of the disgusting sound system at the Center.

This performance was actually better, sound-wise.

RCE


That's the band's fault. Any band that has the desire and the budget can
bring in whatever equipment they want and make almost any hall sound
good. The Stones have never really cared much about their sound. The
Dead, on the other hand, were able to produce breathtaking sound back in
the early 1970s, simply by trying, and hooking up with the appropriate
sound geeks (a company named Alembic, which is still around).

The knowledge has been passed on to bands like String Cheese Incident,
who does a fantastic job with their sound, even in outdoor locations,
which are usually difficult. They have no shows scheduled at the moment,
but check in the spring and see if they're going to be near you:

www.stringcheeseincident.com


You may be right. My son saw James Taylor at the Fleet Center and said it
was fantastic.
The Stones play too loud.

Hey .... did youse guys know that they actually introduce a low level of
distortion (called dither) to CD recordings in order to make them sound
good? Without it, low volume passages on CDs would be noticeably
distorted because of the low digital sampling rate. More useless
information.

RCE

That's amazing. I'm gonna go tell Carmela about that. She's my cat. She was
trying to tell me something earlier today, and she wouldn't shut up. She had
food, she'd been played with, petted, brushed, and her litter box was
spotless, so it must've been something about CD recording technology. What
else could it have been?

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 20:51:21 -0500, "RCE" wrote:

Hey .... did youse guys know that they actually introduce a low level of
distortion (called dither) to CD recordings in order to make them sound
good? Without it, low volume passages on CDs would be noticeably
distorted
because of the low digital sampling rate. More useless information

didnt know that...

http://amos.indiana.edu/library/scripts/dither.html


RCE

"RCE" wrote in message
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These guys still know how to rock.

Mrs.E and I went to see them a couple of years ago at the beginning of
the "Licks" tour at the Fleet Center in Boston. It was horrible because
of the disgusting sound system at the Center.

This performance was actually better, sound-wise.

RCE

I saw their first last US concert 25 years ago in Hampton Va. It was a great
four hour show with George Thourgood and the Destroyers opening.

On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 21:06:02 -0500, "RCE" wrote:

Without it, low volume passages on CDs would be noticeably
distorted
because of the low digital sampling rate. More useless information

Reading the description it sounds more like a way of compensating for
the lack of sufficient dynamic range at the low end of the volume
scale. By introducing some random background noise you ensure that
the sound level never goes all the way to zero if I'm understanding
this correctly.

RCE wrote:
These guys still know how to rock.

Mrs.E and I went to see them a couple of years ago at the beginning of the
"Licks" tour at the Fleet Center in Boston. It was horrible because of the
disgusting sound system at the Center.

This performance was actually better, sound-wise.

RCE

You think?

The garage band down the block is tighter than the Stones were tonight.
How the H do you flub up "Satisfaction" after 40 years? You could see a
couple of the guys were really frustrated- I thought the bass player
was going to climb right up into the drummer's lap for a while there as
they struggled to get their licks together. Lot's of unhappy glances
exchanged every time somebody screwed something up. They were literally
"jamming" instead of performing. Very disappointing show.

My suggestion, fewer drugs and less booze before a performance- and
more rehearsals.