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Slow Children Playing
I am playing a show this week with several performances in the worst room I have ever played in as far as the acoustics. This entire huge room is stone and brick and glass and the ceiling is at least 40 feet high. No carpet anywhere.
I have to play very quietly of course because the room loads up so easily. I am having trouble that my tone sounds very thin and scratchy when I keep it throttled back.
I have a 2 peavey classics I can use, a 20-watt with a ten or a 50-watt with 2 12s. I have to play alot of clean parts, but some of it is nice crunchy stuff.
This place is like a gymnasium and I was wondering if anyone had any tips for keeping a good, flexible, controlled tone in a room with such terrible acoustics.
It's a money gig, so I can't really screw around dialing in a sound. I have to show up and have a good idea theoretically of what I need to do. Would it be better to use the 10-inch 20-watt opened up a little further, or will the 212 with the master on 1 still give me more warmth?
One day I got there early enough so I could play with the amp on like 5 and it sounded really nice in that room. It was like AC/DC volume, though and completely inappropriate for the gig. It sounded frickin' awesome, though.
I have to play very quietly of course because the room loads up so easily. I am having trouble that my tone sounds very thin and scratchy when I keep it throttled back.
I have a 2 peavey classics I can use, a 20-watt with a ten or a 50-watt with 2 12s. I have to play alot of clean parts, but some of it is nice crunchy stuff.
This place is like a gymnasium and I was wondering if anyone had any tips for keeping a good, flexible, controlled tone in a room with such terrible acoustics.
It's a money gig, so I can't really screw around dialing in a sound. I have to show up and have a good idea theoretically of what I need to do. Would it be better to use the 10-inch 20-watt opened up a little further, or will the 212 with the master on 1 still give me more warmth?
One day I got there early enough so I could play with the amp on like 5 and it sounded really nice in that room. It was like AC/DC volume, though and completely inappropriate for the gig. It sounded frickin' awesome, though.