Sound Monitors - This could solve ALL THE PROBLEMS Part 2...........
I have now started a fresh posting as other one is now getting a bit long and unruly.
It is interesting that from my system there has been a lot of interest and a lot of people have clicked in to view, but only one Bar Owner has seen it as a necessity to have one on the premises. But not one Bar Owner on La Marina thinks that they should have a Sound Monitor on their premises? It was Bobbys Bar at Quesada who has now ordered one. Maybe the Council is just about to issue Free ones to all the Bars up here on the Urbanisation????????????????????http://www.gamasl.co.uk/club-sound-meters.html
I did aim my last post also at Entertainers as they are also very involved in all this.
I notice that I had a reply back from Debra. Debra states that often the owner of the venue or the punters as the night wares on are shouting "turn it up turn it up", or they complain to the band "its not loud enough"? This possibly happens in venues full of teenagers, the majority are much older than that and a little bit more sophisticated.
But my point is that even if the audience does want it a lot louder one should just ignore that, after all it is the owners Licence and livelihood that is at stake. One last comment in 25 years of running and owning places of entertainment in the UK, I cannot remember ever having an audience that were shouting for it to be louder – that is total rubbish. Artists in properly controlled venues were just not allowed to increase the volume. From my experience in running premises it did not matter whether on stage was Marmalade, Billy Fury or maybe even Noel Edmunds.
This should be of interest Ian. Most bars in Spain and UK were being quoted thousands of pounds / Euros for sophisticated fully wired systems that usually had the sensors placed directly at the performance area which mean't that it caught the volume as it came out of the speakers and often then simply cut the mains supply (as it read it as "Too high") causing serious damage to equipment. These devices seem great and are realistically priced. They would certainly show that everyone is trying to work together which responsible venues and acts want and they are affordable!!
Ian
I honestly wish that the Council would insist that all bars had to have a fully automated noise limiter fitted and set to the legal levels stipulated by Valencia This would then stop all noise complaints from the locals living near the bars and also stop the bars denouncing each other.
It's interesting what you state Ian, that no bars on the Urb have taken this up. I'm sure most bars of not all can spare €20-50 euros for a noise limiter tester. The fact that the bars have no interest in trying To solve the issue then, you gots what's coming to you.