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Carols by LED light

Wed, 16 Dec 2009, 11:20 pm
David Ashton12 posts in thread
Last week I lit a "carols", 2/3 of the audience had LED light effects and even LED "candles" Am I getting too old or is this an appalling development.The sound guy used the Mike Rane gain structure method so the sound was noisy and "strangled".Not an edifying night.

LED for Christmas

Thu, 17 Dec 2009, 10:10 pm

David

It is an appalling development. Most are. It is also inescapable. Insurance and OHS will barely let a naked flame appear in public whatever the occasion. With these thoughts in mind, the last Carols by Candlelight of my youth was held in a bush setting and someone dropped a lit candle onto bark strewn ground. The holocaust that could have ensued does not bear imagining.

LED is ugly, but there is, after all, a positive side.

The sound was lousy then, too, so perhaps Mike Raine is the only guy we should any of us trust in these situations.  

Best for Christmas, and for Candles by Carol-light (as my father prefers to call it)

Noël Christian

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