Horse Chestnut
Merion Village
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I've seen Donna Summers perform twice on TV recently, and both times her drummer was set up on a riser, with a big, clear plexiglass screen surrounding him. How come why, please?
Letterman suggested that he was quarantined, but I'm assuming it has something to do with sound quality.
laChewla
Victorian Village, The Heart Of It All
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Definitely seen these before. I think the idea is to help balance the sound. AKA - drums are loud, so let's reflect the sound backward to the ground and then up and over. Kind of like a reverse orchestra shell??
Are these what you mean?
blammo
in the shadow of the wonder of bread
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I would assume it's to keep the stage volume down…usually your drummer determines the minimum volume of the rest of the band, & if he/she is an animal, then everyone else has to crank up their monitors and amps, creating a high risk of feedback. If the drummer is sonically isolated, everyone's mix can be controlled much easier.
Or maybe he just smells bad.
johnaesthetica
Wilmington
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blammo wrote I would assume it's to keep the stage volume down…usually your drummer determines the minimum volume of the rest of the band, & if he/she is an animal, then everyone else has to crank up their monitors and amps, creating a high risk of feedback. If the drummer is sonically isolated, everyone's mix can be controlled much easier.Or maybe he just smells bad.
Yes. On televised performances like the one you saw, the drums are typically well mic'ed. The shield allows the drummer to play at normal velocity, but with a reduced sound output onto the stage and into the audience. The other instruments were probably playing something softer. (It was the queen of Disco, after all).
You get a better mix of sound levels with the screen, as Blammo already said.
johnaesthetica
Wilmington
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Horse Chestnut wrote Drummer in a box?
Step one: cut a whole in the box
Horse Chestnut
Merion Village
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Kessler, you owe me a new keyboard, because I just spit coffee all over mine. Plus you've given me a baaaaad earworm.
Thanks everyone for the explanations! I wonder if they use it because Donna Summers is old and she wanted them to cut down the racket?
Horse Chestnut
Merion Village
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Wallis wrote Cool that you called her "Donna SummerS"...I thought only people in New York put an S on everyone's name...
Nope. Hillbillies do it, too!
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