Juwenalia in Lublin, or on concert loudness

Automatically translated from the Polish original.

Juwenalia. Lublin. And today’s my challenge: to play such sound that this little girl with pigtails, whose very aware (respect!) parents bought her protective earplugs, could take them off and enjoy the concert without discomfort. As you can see, I succeeded. That’s my mission: to respect those for whom we do this. The audience. And with the Kwiat Jabłoni band, we have a very diverse audience, often very young as well. 90 or in bursts (2 songs in a set) 95 dB(A) at the FOH in an outdoor setting (i.e. usually 30-50m from the stage) is a completely sufficient sound level to fully experience our concert and have a good time. Those who enjoy kidney massage from subbass, please take seats in the first row, and I apologize sincerely to my fellow sound engineers, but this year I also won’t participate in the loudness races ;)