Members S J B Posted January 11, 2013 Members Share Posted January 11, 2013 Hey Guys, I've been stepping out into the audience space more recently before the show to check my tones at listening distance and have been increasingly concerned about the brightness and thinning effect distance has. It's a classic case of the tone sounding great when you stand on stage in front of it, but when the sound actually travels and develops and is received by the audience, it's completely different. I usually tilt back about 40 degress to help with that, but still the same effect about 10-20 feet in front. 40 watt 6L6 combo, heavily modified, 1x12 alnico jensen. Various humbucker and single coil guitars. Pretty clean and mildly overdriven mostly, up to rock crunch. Any suggestions out there? Plexi baffling might be overkill as we don't generally mic the amps on smaller gigs. I've heard of these little felt discs you place on the grill clothe over the cone, but haven't heard many reviews... Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sir riff a lot Posted January 11, 2013 Members Share Posted January 11, 2013 Im interested in this too , as majority of my gigs are unmiced therefore you are reling on the onstage tone and volume for what the audience hears. in these cases should you eq the amp to what sounds better out the front ? even if it sounds crap to you and the band onstage ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sir riff a lot Posted January 11, 2013 Members Share Posted January 11, 2013 Im interested in this too , as majority of my gigs are unmiced therefore you are reling on the onstage tone and volume for what the audience hears. in these cases should you eq the amp to what sounds better out the front ? even if it sounds crap to you and the band onstage ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members S J B Posted January 11, 2013 Author Members Share Posted January 11, 2013 Tough call! If I contour the eq to sound good out front, I lose a lot of detail and nuance for myself, and we all know that feeling... Kinda like wearing earplugs and you can't get into the zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NewRiggins Posted January 11, 2013 Members Share Posted January 11, 2013 do you always play with a full sound system? I usually turn my rig around and rely on front of house for tone, and just get my self in the monitors a bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cirrus Posted January 17, 2013 Members Share Posted January 17, 2013 **bleep**p>**bleep**p>**bleep**p>The best thing about the HC3.0 thing is that none of the horrible things in this thread ever happened. **bleep**p> **bleep**p>The worst thing is that it thinks "HC3.0" is html and won't let me post this message, and when I edited it and tried again it won't let me post because I tried to post more than one time within 3,600 seconds! **bleep**p> **bleep**p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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