The sound engineer has to care, it is his job. The webcast was not for Sum 41, it was for the whole event. It was as "free" as TV with all its commercials. But you're right, you get the impression they didn't really care about what went on the stream with all the missing stuff and mistakes in the song titles.fergal41 wrote:Yeah, but what I'm saying is that the acoustic side of it was only really factored in for the crowd - I don't think the sound engineer and/or the band care too much for the sound going out on a free webcast.
You don't have to make compromises if you have a separate mix and I'm pretty sure they had one. May be it was only one engineer watching over both mixes and prioritizing the front of house. Why else would he completely forget about Steve's vocals in the most important and final song Fat Lip.fergal41 wrote:They're not going to compromise their regular front of house sound or bother to set up a separate mix for the sake of a one off webcast.
I meant that the front of house sound was always fine and those parts were only missing in the webstream mix, which explains why you could hear still them slightly in the distance over the ambience microphones which only record in the main speakers direction at a very low level to avoid feedbacks. Of course Steve's voice wouldn't be loud enough without amplification but why else would you be able to hear him at all if not over the main speakers? I doubt the overheads or any other drum mic would make his voice sound like that.fergal41 wrote:I know what you mean about the KOC breakdown, but I don't think that was the ambience microphones picking the sound up there. That could be anything, such as a pedal's preamp not being too powerful or Tom not levelling off his clean and distorted sounds.
I think if the ambience microphones were powerful enough to pick up Steve screaming his Fat Lip vocals then every obnoxious member of the audience would be more in the mix than the band and they would have added to the guitar's level.
Also listen to the end of We're All To Blame. You can hear the clean guitars in the background, they sound fine, but are just not present in the stream.