Question for the mega minds.....
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George,
This is where I am getting the disconnect in theory. If it is an acoustic presentation than I would certainly agree and i believe that would be one giant piunt source. If it is an amplified concert and the Mixmaster B is involved, hehe, does that not reduce the single instrument sources to distinct and mixed point sources? I wonder how the sound would jumble if it were simply each instrument amplified to its own channel and the stack was in the same position as the instrument? It would seem the mixer eliminates the multiple point source theory, no?
There was a wall of sound for The Dead shown here a few months back, would it be two point sources or just one big one or multiple sources all on the same plane? I do not see how the sound could be IA compensated if mixed. I also don't see how the sound could be balanced properly if each instrument were amplified separately with the instruments own channel. Seems like a one or the other sort of option.
I don't consider a symphony orchestra as one giant point source. All the different instrumentalists? Yes. All different single sources of sound that are paints in the big picture. Cream live on stage? Maybe. If you keep the mixer out of it, and Bruce and Clapton have their own separate stacks of Marshalls, well apart on the stage. If they stand in front of those Marshall stacks, how do you keep those Mashalls out of the mics devoted to the vocals? You can't. How do you keep even a non-amplified Ginger Baker out of those also?
The only thing I know is that Zappa, and The Byrds had some good sounding concert albums, with more than three guys in the band.
That's it, I forgot the question.
