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From: "Robert Eberwein"
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 02:13:01 PDT
Subject: Amp settings

Does anyone have this problem? (I perused the archives and learned a lot,
but it persists... and I haven't become an electrician or great soundman in
the meantime :-\). I have a couple different (smallish, 10-50 watts)amps
that I love practing and playing small gigs with. I like the full muddy
sound for most stuff and I therefore usually have a lot of bass, pre-amp on
high and main on low...and whatever else I can do to get the distortion and
no feedback. the problem is when I go play with a new band, or get to a hall
with a big PA and they take one look at my settings and treat me like I'm
radioactive. If I'm not careful some soundman- or even a guitar player that
thinks he's a soundman- will whip all my settings down and act they've just
saved us from an evening of embarrassing feedback. You know, wide-eyed and
shaking their heads like they'd just taken matches from a kid.

But that's not the problem. The problem is (be it with "line-out" or with
additional mic's) that when i hook into the PA, and with all the other
players and equipment, I DO usually have a hard time getting enough volume
without feeding back. And i DO have to let the soundmen take over. It's like
a whole new animal. And they don't give a damn for my 'love of distortion'.
In fact that makes me like a photo-model that likes glare.

Now I know this is a common problem, but my question is this: If I have
exactly the sound I want, with my 30 watt standing alone (say for a 100
person backyard party with moderate volume from drums/guitar), is there some
quasi-formula for what to do when I plug in to a PA situation in a big hall
(with brass section, 2 guitars lots of other noise and feedback dangers).
Especially if I'm using a line-out cable, shouldn't I be able to just adjust
the PA somehow without all that "anti-feedback gadgetry" that they keep
telling me I have to have? For instance, could I get rid the bass on my amp
and make it up on the PA (That's kind of rhetorical because I know that
doesn't work)... Ya know?
Robb-in-Rhineland


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