From the course: Live Sound Engineering Techniques: On Tour with Rush
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Sound pressure level (SPL), loudness, and ear fatigue
From the course: Live Sound Engineering Techniques: On Tour with Rush
Sound pressure level (SPL), loudness, and ear fatigue
As a front house mixer, what you want to do is you want to create the energy that's coming from the stage, and from the band, to the audience. A show like this, you're not going to go more than 103, 104 decibels at its loudest. I would venture to guess it the show runs between 99 and 101 most of the time. In a really loud rock environment, if you are at a Slayer show and or an Ozzy show and it was a three hour show, I would probably put headphones on my myself if I was the front of house guy and I had to mix it at 108, 109. In the case of a Rush show, where it is a three hour show, he does not adjust his volume to compensate for ear fatigue, because, he doesn't mix it loud enough to the point of where the ear fatigue is going to happen. In a club, a lot of times you can't help that because you don't have the physical space to use a PA such as this. So, you've got amplifiers right behind the guitar player, an amplifier right behind the drummer, right, you know, and live snare drums and…
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