Pro Sound Web: Editor’s Note: I ran across the following while reading through some old SynAudCon newsletters. My thanks to Peter for allowing us to share it with you here. As Pat Brown of SynAudCon noted, “These are for real - there are people out there that really believe them. This makes for good job security for all of us!”
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This article is hilarious. But it also touches on the very real perception that many people have of sound as some sort of black magic. I have run into several people, and I’m sure there are many more out there, that seem to think that sound is this crazy voodoo land where the rules, consistency, and sense simply cease to exist. As many slightly more informed people will tell you, this is simply not the case. While some of the items on this list seem completely ridiculous, most of them were probably last ditch attempts to solve a problem that just so happened to work because of a very specialized case, malfunctioning equipment, or a fluke.
7. Feedback only occurs during live performances – and never during sound check and technical rehearsals.
This sounds like an old wives tale. This list is unbelievable. I can totally see how someone could read this though and think those things make sense and are true. Sure, understanding sound technically can be difficult, but I'm starting to wonder if it's just a small gap in standard high school physics education. Of course not for everything on the list, but it does seem to me like sound really freaks some people out and is revered and mysterious and mystical. I don't think there are as many people who find lighting, for example, to be as baffling, and for me, at least, that is because the basics are discussed in high school physics.
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