
Downside Studio
New member
I had great fun getting a theatre-gut really pissed off yesterday. He insisted that I used his $100.000+ soundsystem. I insisted in using my own ($10.000).
He said his sytem was the only one that could sound good in that particular theatre because of the way the theatre was build, and the way the system was set up (using soundweb system). My own system (JBL components) is custom build for theatre productions, and has a very wide spread (90x90) so I knew it would sound great in that theatre. (this was not the first time I used it in this theatre, but he didn't know that)
because I couldn't convince the guy on using my own system (wich he couldn't decide anyway) we had a poll with some listeners. Guess what !! everybody seemed to agree my system sounded better overall than his multi-delayed system using over 20 speakers mounted in the theatre.
just to piss him off, I used an old sales-trick with a real bad and old system that we had standing in the truck. Put a cd on it and play it for a couple of minutes, than switch over for a short time to the other system, and turn back to the previous system. 9 out of 10 people will find the first system the best. The trick is that the ear gets used to the sound, and will percieve anything else as less good, or odd sounding. Before the ear gets adjusted to the other sound switch back to the previous system.
man, you should have seen his face when people tried to convince him that the old crappy system ($250) sounded better than his.
Still wondering why we didn't get any stagehands at the end of the show?
He said his sytem was the only one that could sound good in that particular theatre because of the way the theatre was build, and the way the system was set up (using soundweb system). My own system (JBL components) is custom build for theatre productions, and has a very wide spread (90x90) so I knew it would sound great in that theatre. (this was not the first time I used it in this theatre, but he didn't know that)
because I couldn't convince the guy on using my own system (wich he couldn't decide anyway) we had a poll with some listeners. Guess what !! everybody seemed to agree my system sounded better overall than his multi-delayed system using over 20 speakers mounted in the theatre.
just to piss him off, I used an old sales-trick with a real bad and old system that we had standing in the truck. Put a cd on it and play it for a couple of minutes, than switch over for a short time to the other system, and turn back to the previous system. 9 out of 10 people will find the first system the best. The trick is that the ear gets used to the sound, and will percieve anything else as less good, or odd sounding. Before the ear gets adjusted to the other sound switch back to the previous system.
man, you should have seen his face when people tried to convince him that the old crappy system ($250) sounded better than his.
Still wondering why we didn't get any stagehands at the end of the show?