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From one of the dead's main sound engineers, Dan Healy, who helped establish this technology (I wasn't able to find any further discussions, but I know I've rea
by dekhn 3y ago
From one of the dead's main sound engineers, Dan Healy, who helped establish this technology (I wasn't able to find any further discussions, but I know I've read a few interviews where he talked about doing this at the soundboard).
"""What tools do modern sound engineers have at their disposal that you didn’t?
Computers and all the things that became possible at the advent of computers. It’s removed the limitations to creativity. Nowadays, in terms of concert sound, you can not only correct the sound for any room, you can ongoingly correct it in real time as the room changes and as the temperature changes and as the humidity changes. We used to do that in the ’80s and ’90s – I had a complete weather station at my mix board and we tracked temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, because they change sound dispersion, sound quality. We corrected the systems accordingly. We did long, long studies and mapped it out, and we had curves so we could predict where the sound was going. We had to do that by hand. Nowadays, it happens all by itself."""