sound engineering in nantes

almost every night of the tour erwan would come up to us and say, tonight you will need to use a PA. we have this thing about using PA systems and usualy we chose to play acousticaly without any amplification. there are a few reasons for this. First off we don't really like the way we sound amplified. there tend to be feed back problems, the guitar always feels out of balance with the other insturments, and I always feel like we're playing this guessing game with the sound engineer as we get louder or softer with out any warning and the engineer tries to componsate with the mixingboard. Secondly I think it creates an additional barriers between the audience and the performers and between the berformers themselves. Both the physical barrier of the microphone stand sand cords, and a psycological power barrier between the amplified sounds coming from the stage and the unamplified sounds coming from the room. Playing acoustic allows the sounds of the environment to enter into the song rather then taking over the sonic space forcefuly. I love loud rock music as well, i play in a math rock band and go to loud shows. But there is plenty of that out there already, we're trying to do something different and more inviting.