Which is taken from the mixing desk unless it’s a bootleg.
Most of the music I listen to is recordings of jazz gigs with audiences in small clubs and halls.
The sound of particular concert venues, and the atmosphere of performing in front of a live band, and the sound of the audience when they can be heard makes albums of live gigs special and my view better in many ways than Studio albums.
For me, Naim systems excel at reproducing the sound and atmosphere of live gigs.
I can understand that given the gigs you describe, though not my cup of tea at all. The same would apply to, say, a recording classical chamber music by a string quartet etc. Rather different with music that has been assembled in a studio, like, say, much prog rock.
It would really need to be performed for the venue to sound good in my opinion.
I’ve been to a lot of un micced jazz venues and without the benefit of a mixing desk, they were always a drummer and his background band. Because naturally, percussion was so much louder than anything else.
One exception I noted was one band actually seemed to know this (only one!). They record albums with percussion, but when performing live they never use percussion. The same performer goes on double bass instead to keep the pace in a way that is venue appropriate.
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