The Roots

[pjv]

Getting down to the original subject, TV and radio tend to play it safe when it comes down to music broadcasts.

I even remember zapping one day to the Jerry Springer Show(sorry) and he'd invited James Brown to play 'cause Jerry claimed to me nuts about James.

So far so good. Big TV guy invites his music hero and his band to play on his show. Now you'd think that they'd at least try to get it right, but I only remember being able to hear about half of the band. Imagine; a legendary band which also sports a unique combi of TWO bass players AND the bassist has a solo AND....nothing. Not a sound.
No, they didn't forget to turn him on, they just didn't. Too many open channels.

TV usually likes to play it safe; lead & bass. The rest is up to the discretion of the engineer. I even remember seeing playbacks of my own band; big zoom in on the drummer, he plays the standard fill were you work your tomtoms off from high to low and end with a cymbal crash. Too bad the cymbal mics weren't turned on. Funny how they always ARE during the sound check.

Brass instruments are pretty easy too mic 'cause all the sounds coming out of one source; the bell. Tubas are a bit of a problem because not many mics can pic up the lows we're putting out. But in general even though most people perceive the electric bass as producing more lows than a tuba, theres more than enough sound coming out of the bell to mic it loud enough to compete with massively loud bands, even in a live situation.

It all comes down to if the sound engineer has decided HE(or she) wants to hear the tuba or not.

Moral of this story; if your band plays a lot of amplified gigs, you might just want to chummy up with the sound engineer.

[Dan Schultz]

..... It all comes down to if the sound engineer has decided HE(or she) wants to hear the tuba or not.

Moral of this story; if your band plays a lot of amplified gigs, you might just want to chummy up with the sound engineer.

Well! It's nice to see that this thread is finally getting around to what I was trying to say in my original post complaining about the sousaphone. It wasn't what he was playing that I was bitching about. It was the fact that I couldn't hear him!

All I could hear was same old, same old waaay too loud drums and crummy (rap-like) vocals.

[Bignick1357]

Well! It's nice to see that this thread is finally getting around to what I was trying to say in my original post complaining about the sousaphone. It wasn't what he was playing that I was bitching about. It was the fact that I couldn't hear him!

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Oh okay if that is the case then no on the television show he is not mixed very well. But in show you can hear him loud and clear.

All I could hear was same old, same old waaay too loud drums and crummy (rap-like) vocals.

Very true about the drumming, if loud drums are not your thing the Roots wouldn't be up your alley, "Questlove" the drummer is the leader of the group and he controls the level of the group which is most of the time very loud.

[Dutchtown Sousa]

All I could hear was same old, same old waaay too loud drums and crummy (rap-like) vocals.

Very true about the drumming, if loud drums are not your thing the Roots wouldn't be up your alley, "Questlove" the drummer is the leader of the group and he controls the level of the group which is most of the time very loud.

Well as that is true of most of the music by the Roots that I have heard, some of their songs the drums are not overpowering such as Dear God 2.0 where the drums nicely compliment the rest of the performers (well at least to me) which I don't think includes Gooding Jr. but might .
And on the topic of crummy vocals, Black Thought (their main MC) is actually pretty good. A problem I have with them as a group is that most of them are PETA supporters . Animal rights may be needed to somewhat of a degree but PETA is just filled with blithering idiots as we all know. Would be better to support one of the animal shelters in Philly, where they are from, than to support PETA.

[imperialbari]

PITA

[Dutchtown Sousa]

weird...not only "politics" but "weird politics"...

"sousaphones being audible on TV" to "PETA" in only a few posts.

bloke "who would be willing to grant animals 'rights' as soon as animals agreed to accept 'responsibilities' "

http://pixdaus.com/pics/1277987728SGKnu5R.jpg

Well the topic of the thread was The Roots and everyone has had one complaint about them so I had to throw that one in there

[Dutchtown Sousa]

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