Last Wednesday 06 July 2005 00:57, Brett McCoy was like: > And I will also contend that if the guitarist using a 100 watt Marshall > is more powerful than the PA, he's got no business playing a full stack > onstage. ?For most gigs I've found a 50 watt combo (also Marshall) to be > more than adequate... It's not that simple. 1) Marshalls don't turn down that well, even if you have one of those half-power switches on the back you can still saturate small venues without really trying. And some people can only afford one amp. If you're the engineer you're going to have to deal with whatever random equipment combination they throw at you. 2) Everybody does it. This phenomenon is not isolated to lead guitarists. For some reason, what is obvious to anyone standing in the hall is not obvious when you're holding a plugged in instrument. In many venues, the right volume for the mix is too quiet for the player. Finding players who don't sneak up their on-stage sound while the engineer isn't looking is a rare treat. Good monitoring can help ~(again, you need everything going through the desk to achieve this) 3) The drummer always plays the gig at twice the velocity and volume of the soundcheck. 4) Of course it'll sound completely different once you've got an audience in there. ;p (seriously though, a good audience runs at around 100dB) cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
