The visual show was mindblowing but where did you (Simon, Shpongle Crew etc) picked up the soundguys?

The soundpicture was noisy, abit grainy in the deeper frequencies. The sound was clearly to loud for a venue like Roundhouse.

The singing microphones, you know the 2 girls, input level almost faded away with reverb. To damn loud.

Otherwise they did a ok job, but nothing more.

By the way, who was that guy tapping on the metal thingy?
He was stunning!

//ForeverIBurn “Shpongle #135”

Re: Shponglondon 2008 - The sound <—-

[quote author=“ForeverIBurn”]The visual show was mindblowing but where did you (Simon, Shpongle Crew etc) picked up the soundguys?

The soundpicture was noisy, abit grainy in the deeper frequencies. The sound was clearly to loud for a venue like Roundhouse.

The singing microphones, you know the 2 girls, input level almost faded away with reverb. To damn loud.

Otherwise they did a ok job, but nothing more.

//ForeverIBurn “Shpongle #135”

Yeah those guys didn’t do the shpongle sound justice. As I mentoned in another post louder isn’t better and the poor girls had to adjust and the singing became shouting almost.

Initially I was standing in the center, where indeed it was very hard to hear the girls singing and even the flute from Raja was difficult to hear.
Later on I was standing on the left side almost near the walls, where vision was limited, but the voices came out pretty well as well as other instruments I could otherwise not hear.

Wonder if the sound guys really knew how Shpongle sounds :(

But congrats to the band, because despite the poor sound, they really did a great performance!

I was over to the right hand side and didn’t have a problem and had plenty of room to dance about.  The veiw was a little restricted but hey what a night!!

Downloaded the stream and watched it last night which bought back some great blurred memories.. :D

Same problem when Younger Brother played live in Los Angeles.
The performance was stunning. The venue was bullshit.

However, I also flew out earlier this year to see Ott play live at Koinonea.
The sound was perfect! Those guys knew exactly what they were doing.
Needless to say, I could hear every single detail in the music.

Conclusion:  These psychedelic music masterminds should only play at places
that understand the psychedelic/spiritual connection of that music. These aren’t rock bands folks.
Show some respect and turn the volume/bass down.  :evil:

I was definitely disappointed with the vocals. Everything else was great, but the vocals were just off. I thought maybe i wasn’t standing in the right place to hear the the sound correctly or something, but after watching a lot of videos and hearing other people’s reviews about the vocals I can say it wasn’t just were i was standing.

I forgot my ear plugs too. Some of the songs were reaaaaallly loud.

I was way at the very back and was getting some pretty bad resonating bass notes, i reckon it is down to the venue, because of the weird shape of the building.

It really required more speakers at lower volumes to create an equal sound for everyone to hear rather than just one big rig at the front.

I enjoyed it all the same, some tunes like star shpongled banner sounded great, and the guy with the hang drum sounded cool too.

One thing is that because it was live, the sound isn’t going to be as great as say a dj set.

I have to agree with psy4ia - We were in the circle, right hand side, as you face the stage and the bass resonance was almost painful.

As we are both of a musical background, we spent most of the time discussing what was wrong with the sound system!  I can be quoted as saying that the FOH sound guy needed his testicles removed!

We both enjoyed the gig, but this did detract from our enjoyment somewhat.

I do some of work for various Prog Rock groups, so I know first hand how important it is to have a sound guy who is sympathetic to the music, the band and to some extent, the audience - as someone said above, louder isn’t necessarily better.

(Before I get any flak about being a Prog fan, Psy & Psytrance arn’t that dissimilar from Prog - some of the tracks on the Younger Brother CDs would fit right in on a Prog CD.  I’m a Prog musician who happens to be working on an Ambient/Prog/Psytrance collaboration project - should be interesting.)

If it helps I have some friends who run a 50kw sound system that would have done a much better job - maybe next time the guys want to gig in London (we all pray it’s not such a long wait for the next time, don’t we?), they can give me a call and I’ll help them out!  B ->

I agree with the others here.

My girlfriend and i adore this music, but we both were utterly disappointed with the sound. We where sitting on the left side on the balcony, and the bass was so loud that the speakers couldn’t catch up and got all distorted. Simply to loud, i mean, roundhouse is not an outdoor arena, and people aren’t deaf!