There is a moment of absolute beauty when you have truly talented musicians that walk across your stage. They could be playing through a set of mackies and they would STILL sound great, because they are masters of their instruments. I hold vocalists to the same standards.

There are too many that are coming across my stages these days that can't perform for crap, or just have a CD with their 'backing tracks' that are actually the whole performance.

I watched a guy last month bring his whole Digi-Venue system out with tons of plugins for everything under the sun... expensive analyzers, etc. His band STILL sounded like crap. Same stage/system, guy from Australia came in with his band ... no sound check .. quick line check and ran with it. They sounded better out of the gate than the other national act did their whole set. Used less power, analog console with a total of 4 gates and 6 comps for the whole band. They sounded great. Even PT can't polish a turd. My biggest problem is the industry continuing to put out these no-talent 'artists', and anyone that can buy a copy of PT suddenly enabling them to do this.