I’m currently working at a rock show in Indianapolis. The house speakers are EAW kf850′s which were the standard 10 years ago, but sound a bit honky. (See photo below).

There are a few colorful noises in audio. Pink noise. White noise. What does it all mean? When I have a question, I consult wikipedia.org. Their description of pink noise is:

1/Æ’ noise is used… to refer to any noise with a power spectral density of the form

where Æ’ is frequency and 0 < α < 2, with α usually close to 1. These “1/Æ’-like” noises occur widely in nature and are a source of considerable interest in many fields.

There. Does that clear it all up?

I was not running sound at my church last week. Instead I got to sit in the congregation in about the middle of the room. Since I’m always listening critically (I can’t really help it- it’s a curse), something really jumped out at me that I wanted to pass along to you. The kick drum and bass (guitar) weren’t fighting for the same space, which is rare.

(Bonus points if you can name this band…)