I really like Braun Strowman. I would turn the volume down on him just a little bit. I think he is a little bit overly animated, and he doesn't have to be. He is already a larger than life character when he wakes up and has a cup of coffee.
Kansas City might be the loudest stadium that I've played in.
In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect.
With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
We honestly cannot hear sometimes because the audiences are so loud.
I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.
I always liked the intensity of the recording.
Loudness is impotence.
With an arena, it sounds so big and full sometimes it can obstruct the way we sing because we're hearing so much slapback and things like that.
In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old.
Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.
A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold up in a band situation. The sound isn't dense enough, and the lows and highs tend to get soaked up by the bass and cymbals.
