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Post subject: Re: 1983 Concert Amp Output line record
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 9:17 pm
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Miking your amp (along with everyone else's instruments) helps to "homogenize" and balance the band's overall sound and permits lower stage volumes for each player. Even in a three-stool tavern with one pool table and two beer taps I mike my Spankmaster Reverb to keep its volume reasonable and maintain some sanity on-stage.

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Post subject: Re: 1983 Concert Amp Output line record
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 10:59 pm
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Yeah, miking an amp is really cool for gigs!! Used a Princeton Reverb clone, last summer at an outdoor fest. Miked it with a Shure Beta 57(worked out great). I think a Sennheiser E909(?) is the mic of choice for amps. In the Blues band the only amp that we miked was the B-3 organ. And I'll tell you, that stage volume was so far from sanity, Sigmund Freud couldn't have figured us out!! Every night was like a Grateful Dead Blues fest. Art

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Post subject: Re: 1983 Concert Amp Output line record
Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 6:04 am
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Retroverbial wrote:
Miking your amp (along with everyone else's instruments) helps to "homogenize" and balance the band's overall sound and permits lower stage volumes for each player. Even in a three-stool tavern with one pool table and two beer taps I mike my Spankmaster Reverb to keep its volume reasonable and maintain some sanity on-stage.

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Thanks... that is helpful information!


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Post subject: Re: 1983 Concert Amp Output line record
Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 10:49 am
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I used to use an SM57 as an instrument mike but I switched to this AKG D1000-E a while back......

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The frequency response is a bit more linear than the Shure.

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