Roger on the inputs!
Ok, here are all of the gorry details........
This application is at a Church.........now before you all start getting these visions in your heads of a couple of
Peavey BackStage's and Hondo II copies getting drowned out by a little old lady on an organ the size of Texas........Let me clarify a bit if you will.......
The auditorium seats around 1000, and our stage is 130' across. We usually run the db. level just under 100.........not your typical church set up.
Here's where we've run into problems.......In an effort to minimize the sound coming off of the stage we have switched to an earbud monitoring system (E2 and E3's....not too bad, just gotta drive those suckers in to China to get some good bass response!
) We've also built a couple of 4' x 4' boxes that are lined with acoustical foam to house our guitar cabs one Vox 2x12, and one Boogie 1x12. The Vox is sealed, and the Boogie is 1/2 open. We are using SM 57's to mic these cabs, and then our ear buds are getting fed from a 56 channel Yamaha monitor board.(Not specificly a monitor board, just a mixing counsel dedicated for this use.) Both cabs are powered by Fender amps = A Hot Rod Deville, and a Deluxe Reverb 4x10.
I have mostly been playing bass here, due to the fact that they didn't have anyone when I first started going there.......even though my main instrument is Lead guitar..shredder through and through!
I've recently started playing Lead and have been running my rig through the Boogie 1x12.
My Rig: Carvin Quad X 4-Channel Tube Preamp, Boogie 50/50, Quadraverb, and more custom pedals than I care to admit (11, but who's counting.).
Guitars: 64
Gibson SG Standard, Custom shop
Jackson Soloist, Kramer Striker 300St., Strat........and a few others.
The EQ is set flat on the Yamaha board, and I know that I get great bass response with my ear buds as it's the same earbud line I use for my bass.....and it'll rumble my brains out if I let it. when I bring the cab up out of the "Box" it sounds Killer, it's just not making it to my ear buds.
Now as I'm thinking about it, the sound guy said that the last time I played Lead he had a hard time dialing the low end out of my sound??? I was pushing it pretty good to compensate for the lack of bottom end in my earbed mix, but I don't think it was too much.
I'll have to get on a wireless unit and go out by the sound booth to hear what's coming out of the house compared to my earbuds.
OK, know you know it all ............and then some!