The music shouldn’t be too loud either.
I use earplugs these days. Lifesaver and I wish I did this all throughout my 20s. I took my earplugs out at the last event that I went to momentarily and I was shocked and how loud it sounded.
Eh, just provide reusable earplugs to the crowd for a reasonable price. It won’t be as good as a custom molded pair of earplugs, but I’m sure a company like Eargasm would love to partner with a festival to sell from a merch booth. The thump of the beat is a large part of the concert experience, and reducing the volume would erode that.
I’m an audio technician, and I use earplugs at every concert I work. I get my mix dialed in, pop my earplugs in, and then I just pull them out occasionally to double-check that my mix still sounds alright. But to be clear, the vast majority of my mixing happens with earplugs. The days of rawdogging concerts is far past; even the talent uses in-ear monitors now.
There’s a reason all of the old rock stars are fucking deaf. Decades of stage monitors and guitar amps dialed up to 11, just to beat out the crowd noise. And the newer musicians have realized that they can get a much more accurate mix and protect their hearing, by essentially combining earplugs with monitors.
Every concert I’ve been to here in Switzerland has provided them free of charge. Always use them
Free earplugs, that’s communism! /S
Yeah, the issue with free earplugs is that they’re… Well… Cheap. It’s a trade-off where the cheap earplugs are uncomfortable and make everything sound super muffled, so people are less likely to actually use them. Even a mid-range pair of reusable earplugs will be a huge upgrade in comfort and quality.
To be clear, the free earplugs should absolutely be available regardless. But there should also be a way to get some decent earplugs at a decent price, for those who are less inclined to use the cheap ones.
Just as a person who would like to go to concerts, please for the love of good, realise that there is more to audio than just cranking bass to 11 and doing fuck all with the rest of the spectrum. Thump is part of the concert not THE whole concert.
That sounds more like a concert in the early 2000s than a music festival
The music festival starts when there’s enough people awake to run the sound gear.
It goes until they fall asleep.
It repeats until no one is available to work.
The human concept of time is forgotten.
LMAO, but this sound so good. At a college club meeting we heard about an event that’s supposed to run until 10pm and everyone whinged, we’re in our early 20’s here, we dont want to be staying out that late.
What was the club, old people on young bodies?
You’re mixing things up, that’s a porn company.
“What are you doing, step-grandpa???”
Ha! This was most folk music festivals from 1993 to 2006.
We need a new meme category for things like this – Funny harmless memes you can’t share with the gf
Dangerously close to describing a folk music festival
I found out about hypoglycemia because I had an episode of it once. I thought I was just pooped from playing paintball all day; but it was because I didn’t eat anything at all that day.
If I ever get hungry to the point of nausea now, I don’t ignore it.
I was a pile of folk festivals that ran exactly like this.
Old Settler’s Music Fest is 10a-8p each day. Kerrville Folk Fest is 8a to whenever, you can live there for two weeks if you want.
Daytime music festival crowds definitely skew older, and more people bring their kids
Athens Porchfest in Georgia is like that. It’s noon to 8 pm and it’s about 200 bands performing on over 100 front porches across multiple neighborhoods - for free.
Starts at 9am? Fuck off early risers.
If I had the infinity stones, I would make it so that anyone that does anything “productive” (work,school etc) before 12pm poofs away into dust.
Let the morning people feel the pain of having to be awake and productive in your least productive hours for a change. God damn morning people shakes fist
No festival needs to go on longer than 7 hours, what are we, teenagers?
Also the bands ask if everyone wants to hear another song or we good?
You guys wanna hear another song?
mixed response
“Alright cool.”
drummer and singer stay, guitarist and bass leave
2 pm nap time, with couches and recliners.
I want a shady hammock grove.
You would love the south of Italy
Where I live is good. I’m an old man. I nap every day.
i’m not an old man and i’d love to nap every day
better have extremely pleasant weather
$7 umbrellas, I’m not that worried about it
