Author Topic: Big Rig, Big Trouble (Read 1190 times)

mario_farufyno · « **Reply #30 on:** May 25, 2009, 11:05:49 AM »

What I tried to tell is that are some reasonable reasons to some complaints. I can't play either if the stage is too loud or too boomy...

But they need to be remembered that - if some Frequency is stationary - its nodes and peaks are also fixed in space and you can get out of it just moving sideways. As we know peaks of a stationary soundwave in a closed room are always confined by the wall, the build up of deep sounds is a bigger problem just near background.

So, if you avoid being by the corner, you can hear more balanced sounds. Just move some feet away from walls...

terryc · « **Reply #31 on:** May 26, 2009, 01:45:32 AM »

Yup dave, that is the way to but if I could sing I would do the job myself but since I sound like a cat on it's last rites I have to put up with the complaints

georgie_boy · « **Reply #32 on:** May 26, 2009, 05:51:51 AM »

I LOVE David H's solution!!
So practical........with even more bucks for the rest of us!
Trust a Scotsman to think of that!

olieoliver · « **Reply #33 on:** May 26, 2009, 06:24:09 AM »

LOL Dave. I did that for a while and did the singing myself. Then I heard a tape of me singing, not pretty.

Agreed Mario, you dod hear everything great. I really loved it when I used in-ear AND and amp.

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altgrendel · « **Reply #34 on:** May 29, 2009, 09:25:27 AM »

Terryc:

You can't be worse than Iggy Pop. Have you heard any of his latest CD (Prelimiaries)? Whew, what a rough voice.

terryc · « **Reply #35 on:** July 04, 2009, 04:42:25 PM »

Sorry for late reply but maybe not as bad but playing bass and getting it right and singing at the same time...not my forte.
I guess I cannot multi task like our female counterparts..Kimberley if you read this..do you sing or just play outstandingly as you do.

JuancarlinBass · « **Reply #36 on:** December 01, 2009, 01:10:43 PM »

My stage rig tends to vary.. it is either my Gallien-Krueger MB200 on its own, or with an additional 1x10 or 1x12 or a 2x10 cab, or either a Hartke HA2000 cab with either 1 or 2 2x10 cabs or the 1x12 cab or a 1x15 cab... or a fender BXR Dual400 head with any cab combination... Or the big rack rig (8spc rack w. yamaha preamp, DBX163 comp, Digitech RDS1900 set for chorus, QSC GX5 power amp) with a Hartke 410XL and a Mesa/Boogie RoadReady 2x10.

However, any time when there's backline amps in the gig, or whenever I am unable/unwilling to bring my amps/cabs, I use a 3 spc rack with a wireless receiver, the In-ear monitor transmitter, and a Behringer digital preamp (V-amp bass pro). This way I can always rely on in-ears, shape a couple nice sounds on the preamp and feed it to both the PA and the in-ears if needed (sometimes the soundguy is nice enough as to provide me with a nice mix to the in-ears so I don't need to provide bass directly to my in-ears), and leave the extra oopmh to whatever they provide on stage, be it an amp or sidefill monitors. Period, I like my in-ears quite low in volume, so in the end I mix the somewhat isolated outside sound with a little bit of in-ears for definition. I can stand a 2-hours show quite comfortably this way.

mario_farufyno · « **Reply #37 on:** December 01, 2009, 03:07:45 PM »

Oh, I'm dying to try this new MB models from GK, but they didn't came to Brazil yet...

JuancarlinBass · « **Reply #38 on:** December 01, 2009, 03:12:35 PM »

So... Mario, we're somewhat near... Caracas, Venezuela here. Yet no GK distributors around.

mario_farufyno · « **Reply #39 on:** December 04, 2009, 06:39:48 AM »

Saludos, Hermano!

Sort of near, there is some Amazonia between us... ha ha ha

Wish we all live closer. I always read about these guys getting together and miss meeting you (and your wonderfull Alembics, shure).

It is funny, but seems easyer to any latin musician to play in US first than playing in a neighbourhood country. Incredably how close we are and how far we get, because our eyes seems always turned towards North.

Being a portugese spoking country made of Brazil not too aware of our fellow latin brothers, such pitty. Hope this is changing nowadays. Hope freetrade MercoSur be good to we people, too (not just for commodities or business, as usual).