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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:41 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
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why would you carry a huge twin or 60 watt deville or whatever?


Mebbe some of us just enjoy looking at stack-of-doom backlines......

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Good lord, standing near either of those would rip the hair right off my head! I'ld get home and my wife would try to talk to me and I would be doing my best Quasimodo impression.."the bells, the bells!" I would love to have a stack like one of those (you can send the one on the right for starters, just let me know how much the shipping will be) but I'm not sure I would ever be able to get enough out of them. They just wouldn't sound right turned all the way up to .25!


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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 4:05 pm
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Yeah, there are a lot of factors when deciding whether or not to mic, but more times than not, venues I play in mic's our gear.
I remember this one place we played, the sound guy wanted to mic everything and we told him no, because all they had were 3 1x12 speakers without any subs, low ceilings and it was in a room that could fit maybe 100 ppl max. The sound guy apparently was on an ego trip and mic'd us all anyway, and it sounded horrible!
Similar situation at another place, the set-up was near identical EXCEPT they had a legit sound system AND the sound guy saw our stuff and read the situation according to the equipment he saw us with. He just mic'd vocals and let the amps and drums carry themselves (after we adjusted accordingly after the sound check).
A lot of times it is important to run everything through the PA for proper overall mix, but a good sound guy needs to be paired with it. We decide more or less how we will set-up just by listening to bands who go on before us in the line-up. If we notice everything is mic'd and vocals are drowned, or the system is pushed to hard, we normally just ask to mic vocals and let our gear amplify itself.


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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 4:34 pm
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pa2702 wrote:
We decide more or less how we will set-up just by listening to bands who go on before us in the line-up. If we notice everything is mic'd and vocals are drowned, or the system is pushed to hard, we normally just ask to mic vocals and let our gear amplify itself.


Cool, well said.

I have a Peavey Classic 50 that can go either way, but I plan to get a smaller amp for "definite" mic situations & Keep the Peavey for places where I might want to let the amp be itself without a PA.

If I'm going to mic my amp, then all I want to lug around is something in the 10 to 25 watt range. Maybe even smaller.


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