Ricardo -> RE: Volume balance (Feb. 9 2017 17:11:53)
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ORIGINAL: itoprover A question mainly for people who have some experience setting up the sound for flamenco performances and rehearsals, but everyone is welcome to chime in - please share your views on how you see the perfect balance in terms of volume between guitar, voice, palmas, and percussion(cajon). I realize dynamically some instruments can get louder in certain spots i.e. footwork/palmas in llamadas/remates but what is your perfect overall balance? If possible specify the descending order - for example: 1. Voice 2. Footwork 3. Guitar 4. Percussion / Palmas You have no reference and volume is relative. For sure it is rare that the guitar is made too loud in flamenco. In a situation where there is only one microphone for a small hall or venue, the guitar gets the mic. When I saw PDL last in a huge concert hall from row 4, his guitar was super hot, the voices about 50% of that, the Cajon was not coming out, it was only acoustic coming right from the stage, and balance was perfect like a recording un compressed. Normally for tablao gigs I don't mic floor or palmas, if both voice and guitar use same type of mic (shure beta 87), voice is flat at 12 o'clock gain, guitar has bass reduced to about 9 o clock, gain up to about 2 o clock, and both voice and guitar can have the same exact volume level going to the mains. The bass on the guitar is reduced so I can have the guitar very close to reduce bleed, but with reduced bass the guitar needs more gain to compensate. I use a fishman problend system on my flamenco guitar for tablao show which has a built in pre amp. It just so happens that with the direct line I can have both voice and guitar flat and equal gain and volume settings. Of course different singers scream at different volumes. One guy I know I have to pull back some gain to about 11'oclock, and another singer that I need to boost to about 2 o clock. Nothing annoys me more however, when the palmero treat the tablao performance like it's dance class and whack whack away at full volume with no dynamics. Even with a very loud PA it is still annoying.
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