Hey,
how do you guys dial in your guitarsound during practice?
Yesterday, our live engineer listened to our practice session, because we're not very happy with our sound. Everytime someone says "too loud...too muddy...can't hear my vocals...". Everyone's got other preferences for his sound. Our engineer says, that it's the best if you put the mic before the amp and you just have to dial in the gain and do at most minor eq'ing (live situation).
The whole time, we stood before our cabs, which stood on the floor...pushing air next to our asses. In this hearing position we've dialed in our sound, which forces our engineer to do massive tweaks, getting a good live sound.
Right now we've put our cabs in hearing position. Oh my god, what a cheesy sound. Too much treble etc. Not very good for the whole bandsound. With these settings we reduced our overall volume, which makes everthing clearer and more precise. But to me, it's very irritating. My 5150 sounds very harsh and the playing feel is also very strange.
Hope that it makes our live sound a lot more "in your face".
How d'you guys handle this topic?
D'you play for your fun or for the better bandsound?
How do the pro's handle this?
...and sorry for the strange english. It's hard to translate words/phrases from german to english ;-)
Cheers, Markus.
how do you guys dial in your guitarsound during practice?
Yesterday, our live engineer listened to our practice session, because we're not very happy with our sound. Everytime someone says "too loud...too muddy...can't hear my vocals...". Everyone's got other preferences for his sound. Our engineer says, that it's the best if you put the mic before the amp and you just have to dial in the gain and do at most minor eq'ing (live situation).
The whole time, we stood before our cabs, which stood on the floor...pushing air next to our asses. In this hearing position we've dialed in our sound, which forces our engineer to do massive tweaks, getting a good live sound.
Right now we've put our cabs in hearing position. Oh my god, what a cheesy sound. Too much treble etc. Not very good for the whole bandsound. With these settings we reduced our overall volume, which makes everthing clearer and more precise. But to me, it's very irritating. My 5150 sounds very harsh and the playing feel is also very strange.
Hope that it makes our live sound a lot more "in your face".
How d'you guys handle this topic?
D'you play for your fun or for the better bandsound?
How do the pro's handle this?
...and sorry for the strange english. It's hard to translate words/phrases from german to english ;-)
Cheers, Markus.