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I haven't been to many, and stopped over 10 years ago, I only do normal "halls" now (like the Apollo in Manchester which has only once disappointed me), the reason being the distance from the artist and the awful sound.
Has this been fixed anywhere, or is it still something to be tolerated if you want to see a mega-successful artist?
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Basement Jaxx played at the O2 in London couple of years ago - it was BLOODY loud, yet you could hear people in the audience talking. Completely pure and undistorted sound quality, even though the sound spectrum is pretty huge - low bass, high treble.
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I guess it depends on the band and their sound in general. Most of us on here know from our own experience how easy it is to lose definition of different instruments in the mix, especially overly distorted guitars, so it depends a lot of what the band are putting into the PA to start off with, before the sound engineer gets ALL the blame
For example, I saw ACDC at the NEC (sorry, the "LG Arena") in Birmingham and the sound was pretty good, but for a rock band their guitar sound is notably less distorted than the norm, and there is a nice open, airy space in their sound which stops it all muddying up.
I've heard good, bad and awful sound in the same venue, so it's not just the venue's limitations at play here, although I wouldn't discount those as a factor.
I do wish that venues were purpose built for music though! It seems to me that the most thought is put into cramming as many seats in whilst still allowing room for a load of revenue-generating concessions.. There aren't many venues that appear to have any allowances made towards improving the acoustics.
Those funny peppermint-cream shaped things in the ceiling of the Royal Albert Hall, they're there for acoustic reasons, no? So why don't we see things like that elsewhere? Cost the only difference they make to the balance books is in outgoings?
Maiden at the NEC, we were way back, but could hear everything clearly.
Motorhead/Alice Cooper at the same venue, everything was turned up too much and became distorted and unclear.
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Many of the concerts I attended as a teenager were at Leeds Town Hall. Making sense of King Crimsom in that particular venue was near impossible.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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