Clever trickery is great, as long as the basics are already covered.
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There was once a discussion on a live-sound forum. It was all about a certain tech’s difficulties in getting a huge, thunderous kick drum tone at a particular show. Many strategies were proposed, using all kinds of complicated kick micing solutions and post-processing.
It wasn’t until a good way through that a “grizzled vet” of live-audio asked a pointed and important question:
“How did the lead vocal sound?”