One thing I had trouble learning as a guitarist with a stack is that sounds projects and Marshals and such develop sound quite a few feet in front of the player. So you think it's not that loud but the poor people watching you get haircuts!! Cheers Bob tim hall wrote: >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 > > > > -- F R Smith Technical Admin http://www.Rokpacardiff.com
