Last Saturday we did a benefit show at a Shriner's hall in Atlanta. It was a huge room, about 75 yards long, with a great carpeted stage. Almost felt like we were playing in an office.
A few songs into the set I started getting queasy, until I figured out that the stage was moving just enough to upset my equilibrium. It was hollow, and quite boomy, so I had to cut a lot of my bottom end. There was still plenty, and I was getting a lot from the mains, which were at the front edge of the stage. Overall, I wasn't really ecstatic about the sound. I hate the sound of new strings, and these are still pretty new, so it was just too zingy for me, and if I rolled the filters down too much, it lost too much definition. the engineer loved it though. He said he ran it flat with some compression. Last night, we played in Carrollton, GA at the Off-Campus Bar & Grill. This is a great little town and a very cool bar. It's unusual in that the standard racial barriers don't seem to apply here. Everybody seems to intermingle freely, and they were all groving on both the country/rock we were playing and the hip-hop between sets.
I have been playing the heck out of the D-fly this week, so the strings are starting to settle down. Also, I reconfigured the Superfilter to stereo/daisychain mode, and ended up with a fantastic sound last night. It was simply huge, with tons of girth and definition with both fingers and pick. I am extremely pleased with it's performance last night. Here's a pic of my settings snapped after the show...
Left channel is set on bandpass, right is lowpass.
