Poor Sound Mars Splash Festival
Monday, November 01, 2010
Not even the 'BOSS', Dan Tshanda or Dalom Kids, could escape the effects of the poor sound with the Splash ace producer and lead vocalist forced on more than one occasion to interrupt his own performance as the engineers tried to fine-tune the sound system. Initially it was planned that live DVD would be shot during the subsequent show at Molapowabojang, but Tshanda told Showtime that due to the poor sound quality of the sound system they had hired, such plans would now be shelved.
Donald Botshelo aka Don B, who is one of the crowd pullers at Splash shows, also wishes to forget the lousy performance he had, thanks to poor sound as the sound engineer failed to make the instruments blend, thus creating 'a noise' rather than a good melody.
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