I was once at a bluegrass event and some friends were playing Marshall Tucker Band's "Fire on the Mountain" on stage. The soundman had added a lot of effects to the fiddler's channel and the sound was a little spacey, but totally appropriate to the song. Anyway I said to my then wife something like "Yeh, it sound's cool, but Mike's doing all that from the soundboard. Tweak the right knobs and you can even make a crappy fiddler like Gary sound good." ....and then realized his wife was standing right beside us. Ooooops!