All I know is a lot of the rooms they\'ve been playing recently have not been kind to the DAUDS. I\'m hoping this will change...lord how I miss those boards!!!
maybe you should get some better speakers....
i was happy with all the shows i taped in 2005 except for the webster show when dobz was away. the sound was great last year and it got better as the year went on. i thought my recordings were especially good at all porters 6/10 and after, all iron horses, lionsden 6/3, toads 7/1. there werent really any audience recordings i was unhappy with in 2005.
a lot of times people prefer soundboards because they sound cleaner. i taped breakfast at the middle east in 2004. i was the only taper and i walked in as the band was getting on stage. my only option for taping was to plug into the board really quick and hit record. i got a clean signal, but the only channels that were really going through the board were the keys, vocals, and a little bit of guitar. the drums were low in the mix and the bass was not really even there, but people were still telling me it was one of my best recordings.
the signal was clean, but not everything was there. i really couldnt even listen to it because it sounded so dry and it was missing some of the channels. no one really noticed that though. i dont see why people like dry sounding sbds when dobz usually has it sounding great in the room. i would rather have it sound the way it did at the show.