Hi folks!

WHAT IS LOUD?!?

In my opinion, loud starts at a rock concert under normal circumstances at around 105-110 db. Please tell me what you think! Am I noiseboy?

Live loud and prosper!

JD

Posted by Mitch Grant on May 16, 2002

To me, Fran Dreschler is always too loud.Posted by Scott Abrahamson on May 15, 2002

In high school we used to go to the airport and sneak in and lay at the sides of the runway when jets were taking off. That was loud!....and stupid!

Scott

Posted by Bob Lee (QSC) on May 16, 2002

In high school we used to go to the airport and sneak in and lay at the sides of the runway when jets were taking off. That was loud!....and stupid!

Ever see the movie "Pushing Tin"? ;^)

-Bob

Posted by Joe Dawson on May 16, 2002

Seen a little too much "Wayne's World", maybe?

Greetings from the other side,

JD

Posted by Domenic Micarelli on May 15, 2002

Hi all,

Just wondering.... What's the difference between music and noise? I know what my answer is. Your answers would be "music to my ears."

Highest regards,

Dom Micarelli

Posted by Andy Peters on May 15, 2002

Joe asks: WHAT IS LOUD?!?

Ooooh. Tough query. Like most Yiddish words, definitions are best given as examples.

1) Stupid local alt-country band with lead guitarist slingin' a Telecaster through a silver-face master-volume Twin and the amp is aimed at MY head, not his. Don't need a Weatherman to tell me THAT'S LOUD. And annoying. 'twould help (only a little) if the band didn't suck, or if they weren't jerks.

2) Milemarker comes into the club with a couple of SVTs, a Marshall, a 4-piece drum kit and a bunch-o-keybs (run through the amps, 'natch) and I use ALL of the PA and I want more more MORE (catharsis through volume, gang; you had to have been there) and I knew it wasn't loud enough because the promoter said it was loud but not too loud.

The disco blaring at the club last night was too loud, esp. because the room was empty. I was trying to enjoy a beer with friends in the adjacent Tap Room and when the door swung open, it was like someone opening up the compressed-air tap right by your head.

George Clinton at the Rialto last week was not loud, except for when they did "Maggot Brain," which was too loud.

--a

Posted by W. Mark Hellinger on May 15, 2002

When I was a kid we used to hide out under a railroad tressel when a freight train was going past. This tressel was on a pretty good incline, and we'd squat under it inches below the track. That seemed pretty loud at the time.

Another time when I was a kid, I was filling balloons with oxy/accetaline mixtures and tying a firecracker fuse in the bottom of them and lighting them. I had one go off at point blank range as soon as I lit the fuse. That seemed pretty loud at the time.

The neighbors dog, barking all night long sometimes seems pretty loud.

Once, a 12" x 20ft. "I" beam fell off a grain elevator about 120ft. above me an landed on the concrete right behind me. That seemed pretty loud at the time. Woke me up too.

Dave Rat's system he was running with the Chili Peppers seemed pretty loud.

Of course, I've never been around anything really loud, just things that seemed loud at the time.

W. Mark Hellinger