http://barking.roaddog.com/2005/03/31/ch-ch-changes.html Damage done from nearly three decades in the roadie biz Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:25:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://barking.roaddog.com/2005/03/31/ch-ch-changes.html/comment-page-1#comment-68 Bob Schwarz Mon, 11 Apr 2005 03:07:22 +0000 http://barking.roaddog.com/?p=104#comment-68 Sorry to see you leave live-audio.com, but I understand.Though I didn't participate actively, I lurked in the distance reading Brenkman (another old f*ck like myself)and others, and learned a lot about the live side of sound.(I spent 1961-1973 in the record and broadcast businesses). The thing that bothers me after 41 years in pro-audio is to see magazines pandering to the new wave of "audio engineers" that think that using a specific mic or eq is going to make the difference between a hit and a dud. My old boss Ahmet Ertegun (Atlantic records 1970-71), when told about quad sound, said "I'm interested in the performance, and hearing it in mono on a car radio speaker. Anything else doesn't mean squat". And so it goes... Sorry to see you leave live-audio.com, but I understand.Though I didn’t participate actively, I lurked in the distance reading Brenkman (another old f*ck like myself)and others, and learned a lot about the live side of sound.(I spent 1961-1973 in the record and broadcast businesses). The thing that bothers me after 41 years in pro-audio is to see magazines pandering to the new wave of “audio engineers” that think that using a specific mic or eq is going to make the difference between a hit and a dud. My old boss Ahmet Ertegun (Atlantic records 1970-71), when told about quad sound, said “I’m interested in the performance, and hearing it in mono on a car radio speaker. Anything else doesn’t mean squat”. And so it goes…

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