First, the problems with the sunshine are acoustical in nature. Basically, you build a building as a theatre designed to project any sound on stage everywhere in the room, and this is great when you're building it before amplifiers exist. But, you amplify anything on the stage and something happens that we in the business refer to in very technical terms as "the high end goes apeshit". As aisa0 accidentally pointed out, one guy talking is fine, but as soon as it's a modern band... woooah. Essentially the high end bounces all over everything and makes everything incomprehensible, and so everyone turns up to compensate, and it gets worse and... ad nauseam, sometimes literally.
You remember how the main room at opm was before we did the treatment? The djs now are regularly at a lower level than they were before because they don't feel like they're fighting the room for coherence.
Second, I can tell you that there is a very good chance that this will be fixed, at least partially, very soon. And that I will be a busy boy. Shhhhh.
pvck nailed this one. my layman's guess (read: science? what is this science?) are the high ceilings and reflective surfaces (more smooth like concrete vs cloth).
coincidentally the sound at the sunshine gets better the more packed it is as people aren't totally smooth when clothed and when there are enough people the high end "halts throwing its own poop around" (to run with pvck's term) by being sucked into cottony fibers.
without people the amplified sound bounces around but points toward the ceiling in its initial push (sound, like heat, rises albeit slowly), gathers together, gets confused like boiling soup in a pot, eventually hits the ceiling and slams straight down into our ears. the effect is we still here the snare around 14 minutes after its hit. :)
therefore a ban of the sunshine until fixing will only exacerbate the problem and either a) force the owners to decide this is major problem and do something about it or b) they will close and a small part of 'burque dies.
due to the evidence of the state of the bathrooms i'm going to predict b. :(
First, the problems with the sunshine are acoustical in nature. Basically, you build a building as a theatre designed to project any sound on stage everywhere in the room, and this is great when you're building it before amplifiers exist. But, you amplify anything on the stage and something happens that we in the business refer to in very technical terms as "the high end goes apeshit". As aisa0 accidentally pointed out, one guy talking is fine, but as soon as it's a modern band... woooah. Essentially the high end bounces all over everything and makes everything incomprehensible, and so everyone turns up to compensate, and it gets worse and... ad nauseam, sometimes literally.
You remember how the main room at opm was before we did the treatment? The djs now are regularly at a lower level than they were before because they don't feel like they're fighting the room for coherence.
Second, I can tell you that there is a very good chance that this will be fixed, at least partially, very soon. And that I will be a busy boy. Shhhhh.
Reply
Reply
Reply
coincidentally the sound at the sunshine gets better the more packed it is as people aren't totally smooth when clothed and when there are enough people the high end "halts throwing its own poop around" (to run with pvck's term) by being sucked into cottony fibers.
without people the amplified sound bounces around but points toward the ceiling in its initial push (sound, like heat, rises albeit slowly), gathers together, gets confused like boiling soup in a pot, eventually hits the ceiling and slams straight down into our ears. the effect is we still here the snare around 14 minutes after its hit. :)
therefore a ban of the sunshine until fixing will only exacerbate the problem and either a) force the owners to decide this is major problem and do something about it or b) they will close and a small part of 'burque dies.
due to the evidence of the state of the bathrooms i'm going to predict b. :(
Reply
Leave a comment