Topic: Dynamics
Looking for basic info on improving sound dynamics in a 4 piece rock band setting. Everyone playing at 100 mph and turned up to "11" all night is not good for that. Would also welcome info on basic dynaimcs re: singing. Thanks!
- Russell_Harding
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Re: Dynamics
If you start full open that works with drag racing and on occasion rock music and there are several ways to approach dynamics you can start quiet and build to a higher level but once you start full throttle there's no where to go dynamics are best used starting in the middle this gives you more flexibility to lower or raise the volume to create emotion in the melody there are lots of excellent bands that use dynamics as a tool Zac Brown,Tom Petty,Dire Straits to name a few but there are many others and dynamics is one of the key element in there arsenal 
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- Baldguitardude
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Re: Dynamics
In my experience folks turn up and rock loud because it sounds better to them tonally and because that's what they see the pros doing. However the reality is you won't always have the opportunity to sound loud as heck and as good as you want to. What happens with a lot of new bands is they get their sound dialed in during rehearsal and then at the show something changes...maybe the sound man wants the bass to run through the board. Maybe he wants your guitar's stage volume to be low. Maybe the lead singer can't hear himself. Any rate, the band winds up being really uncomfortable, getting tense and nervous, and sounding crappy.
I would strongly suggest that you put yourselves in situations you're uncomfortable with in rehearsal just to make sure you are flexible. Turn way down. Change amps. Change effects settings. If you have two guitarists, trade instruments. Cut the singer's vocal levels. Jack up the singer's vocal levels. Anything you can to force yourselves to produce good music in less than ideal circumstances. Force yourselves to play "not at 11" and make good music.
It takes time and discipline but hopefully you wind up figuring out how to make your music sound good in less than ideal settings. (Make sure you record so you can take an objective listen afterward.)
After all that playing at less than 11 you will start to develop a more keep sense of dynamics, pocket, and feel and you'll find that you won't want to juice it up to 11 all the time.
Hope that helps.
Re: Dynamics
It takes time and discipline but hopefully you wind up figuring out how to make your music sound good in less than ideal settings. (Make sure you record so you can take an objective listen afterward.)
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