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Absolutely totally agree with this…
Absolutely totally agree with this review I thought it was just me but no. It was a shame I was so looking forward to it. This was the review I 100% agree with. I went to see Teddy Swims last night and the sound was awful. Not sure if the venue is badly designed or the sound engineer was on work experience, but it was very badly mixed and far too loud. It was so loud that the bottom end was distorting and there seemed to be loads of reverb, which makes me think that the venue just isn’t suitable for live music. At times it was impossible to hear Teddy above the band. When the female backing vocalists stepped forward to sing with him they were inaudible. Even some of the guitar solos were hard to make out. Incidentally, the camera operator for the big screen concentrated on one of the two guitarists, every time there was a solo, as they should. Unfortunately, they picked the wrong one, virtually every time, which looked incredibly unprofessional. I resorted to stuffing bits of tissue in my ears to protect my hearing. There was auto tune on the vocals, giving them a tinny, electronic sound, which was awful. Overall an unpleasant evening. Probably quite a good band, but impossible to tell in that venue. I haven’t seen anything else at Coop live, so I can’t tell whether that’s normal or I was unlucky, but my feeling is this venue is completely unsuitable for live music. Given the prices, I certainly won’t risk going again. It was an evening ruined.