Speech by Shri Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam on 04-11-2005
In the early years of this century, including me the organizers, singers, marriage photographers did not know the value of clean sound in music concerts. Since common-marriage-photographers who are ordinary photo-studio-owners who were and are available in every nook and corner of every street who do not know about clean-audio since they don't need cameras with audio-input slots (which are very costly) since no experience as they add audio to a marriage video in post-work in their computers hence they do not know the importance of the live-audio of a music concert. The very same marriage-photographers manage the musical events of organizers who contacted them, with the very same video cameras that did not have wired-audio-input slots, with the very same mindset, spoiling the stage output, adding a lot of distortion, noise of theatre-fans, theater-echo, talking of audience & cameraman etc. More, these marriage videographers have very bad habit of switching off & on their video camera at starting and ending of each & every anchoring and each & every song sung hence we miss a lot of words of anchoring and start portions of songs and also they give us these videos on worst CD & DVD brand CDs like NATIONAL, Starlite etc., but not on Sony type of branded CDs or DVDs and those DVDs fail to open full or some parts of videos after a few years. Those days, very few quality-videographers with audio-input-slot-video cameras were available but most of the general organizers of events did not know where to find them. I started organizing my own concerts only from 2008 but I also fell victim to these marriage videographers in the beginning and in a couple of years I could learn considerably regarding clean sound but even today the bad habit of self-sound-craziness of the participating artistes and knowledge-less self-patting hired sound operators spoil the sound discipline sometimes and the whole money expended on the concert goes mere waste because of their sound-crazy-selfishness. Even many singers do not know how to hold a mic for better catch-up of their voice. When you watch all the videos of a music concert, you will understand how some singers, Guests and the anchor though well educated, hold the mic in an angle and distance that adds worst output of their voice. Very sad situation. Nowadays I am uploading such old-age-videos of .DAT, .VOB formats after struggling a lot to reduce at least some hum and noise whatever possible (as those were recorded by videographers with video cameras without audio-input-slots), as good old memories. Also I am removing the old age .DAT, .VOB videos one by one which were noisy & uploaded in the starting days of my YouTube life for nothing is better than nonsense, to reduce the hum & disturbance as possible and re-upload for something is better than nothing. Ghantasala-K Rani Award to Singer Smt Akhila Speech by Shri Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam Venue: Sri Thyagaraya Gana Sabha, Chikkadpally, Hyderabad Date: 04-11-2005
In the early years of this century, including me the organizers, singers, marriage photographers did not know the value of clean sound in music concerts. Since common-marriage-photographers who are ordinary photo-studio-owners who were and are available in every nook and corner of every street who do not know about clean-audio since they don't need cameras with audio-input slots (which are very costly) since no experience as they add audio to a marriage video in post-work in their computers hence they do not know the importance of the live-audio of a music concert. The very same marriage-photographers manage the musical events of organizers who contacted them, with the very same video cameras that did not have wired-audio-input slots, with the very same mindset, spoiling the stage output, adding a lot of distortion, noise of theatre-fans, theater-echo, talking of audience & cameraman etc. More, these marriage videographers have very bad habit of switching off & on their video camera at starting and ending of each & every anchoring and each & every song sung hence we miss a lot of words of anchoring and start portions of songs and also they give us these videos on worst CD & DVD brand CDs like NATIONAL, Starlite etc., but not on Sony type of branded CDs or DVDs and those DVDs fail to open full or some parts of videos after a few years. Those days, very few quality-videographers with audio-input-slot-video cameras were available but most of the general organizers of events did not know where to find them. I started organizing my own concerts only from 2008 but I also fell victim to these marriage videographers in the beginning and in a couple of years I could learn considerably regarding clean sound but even today the bad habit of self-sound-craziness of the participating artistes and knowledge-less self-patting hired sound operators spoil the sound discipline sometimes and the whole money expended on the concert goes mere waste because of their sound-crazy-selfishness. Even many singers do not know how to hold a mic for better catch-up of their voice. When you watch all the videos of a music concert, you will understand how some singers, Guests and the anchor though well educated, hold the mic in an angle and distance that adds worst output of their voice. Very sad situation. Nowadays I am uploading such old-age-videos of .DAT, .VOB formats after struggling a lot to reduce at least some hum and noise whatever possible (as those were recorded by videographers with video cameras without audio-input-slots), as good old memories. Also I am removing the old age .DAT, .VOB videos one by one which were noisy & uploaded in the starting days of my YouTube life for nothing is better than nonsense, to reduce the hum & disturbance as possible and re-upload for something is better than nothing. Ghantasala-K Rani Award to Singer Smt Akhila Speech by Shri Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam Venue: Sri Thyagaraya Gana Sabha, Chikkadpally, Hyderabad Date: 04-11-2005