Question for guitar players- Spot on stage = tone

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First off I seem to always be working at getting the 'tone and fit' within the on stage mix right. As you know the size', feel and blend of your amp can vary a lot in one size room vs another and especially outside gigs.
I was wondering if other players find moving around to find those spots where your tone and blend comes together is a factor.
I find also that as stage volume goes up the distances -and balances get way more critical.
 
use gaff tape to mark your spot on the stage where your instument rings, and mark another where to does not. Then move between them as necessary.
 
Thurgood said:
use gaff tape to mark your spot on the stage where your instument rings, and mark another where to does not. Then move between them as necessary.
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See, I'd always assumed the point of running around on stage was just to look cool. I learned something today!
 
I've heard tell of these new fangled gadgets called "monitors". They are these speaker thingeys in a funny shaped box that can be used to hear yourself without having to run around the stage like an idiot. What will they think of next?
 
I set up the amp so I can hear it, usually turned sideways to the audience so my stage volume has less effect on what the audience hears (`cause the amp has got to be loud to sound good, you know). That way, I can hear myself, the tone is good, and the sound guys don't yell at me. Synergy, don't you know.


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I have a little matrix right above my key rack. When I stumble in drunk after a gig i write my amp's volume and the name of the creepy sound guy who mixed us. then when i play that spot again i consult my prior matrix.

places with no guitars in monitors.... volume 3-4. Fucking loud.
places with guitars in monitors... 1.5-2.

except for that one place... it's called the New Wave Cafe... in New Bedford. Quite a scene. Gotta be the loudest place on earth. There they have everything in the monitors. I still turned up to 5. Why not?

They also have high life bottles six for 10 bucks in a bucket with ice... but no air conditioning. My kind of place.

What the hell was the question, anyway?
 
Yeah right guitar tone in the monitors. To be sure I'm talking about the club and small festival range not premo setups- I sure as hell don't expect the typical monitor condition to be any source of relality reference as far as tone in concerned. Usuall more a crude volume necessity at best.
Part of what I struggle with (playing R&B, Blues, Rock, Dead, Country) is I spend alot of time on the clean tone side and then the edge between full/clear and the transition to crunch', and the right 'size' seems to be a tough line to find -or I sould say keep. :D
 
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