The rig I used this week. My Deluxe Reverb, a Mojo Hand FX Rook and my McFeely 454.
In my living room:
On stage:
I think I'm too used to being the master of my own domain. Both clips were recorded with my iPhone. On All Star Trio gigs I'm always running through the PA because thats how the boss likes it. On my own gigs I just use my amp to power the room. I never have the guitar in the monitors and I use a Sennheiser e609 hung over the cabinet. Not very scientific but it seems to work. On stage yesterday I was a little freaked out because they had so much of my guitar in the monitors since the amp was not really where I could hear it and it seemed very shrill to me. I didn't want to mess with it too much since I figured that it should sound OK through the mains if I kept the settings where I knew they should sound good but the video from the show bums me out a bit. Some of this is because as much as I play I almost never play on stages with sound systems like this but did put me off a little bit while I was playing. Guess I need to hit the county fair circuit a little harder next year
And to be totally fair, @El Borrachito who has done a ton of live sound said it was "the best mix he'd heard at a fair like this" so maybe I have my head up my ass.
In my living room:
On stage:
I think I'm too used to being the master of my own domain. Both clips were recorded with my iPhone. On All Star Trio gigs I'm always running through the PA because thats how the boss likes it. On my own gigs I just use my amp to power the room. I never have the guitar in the monitors and I use a Sennheiser e609 hung over the cabinet. Not very scientific but it seems to work. On stage yesterday I was a little freaked out because they had so much of my guitar in the monitors since the amp was not really where I could hear it and it seemed very shrill to me. I didn't want to mess with it too much since I figured that it should sound OK through the mains if I kept the settings where I knew they should sound good but the video from the show bums me out a bit. Some of this is because as much as I play I almost never play on stages with sound systems like this but did put me off a little bit while I was playing. Guess I need to hit the county fair circuit a little harder next year
And to be totally fair, @El Borrachito who has done a ton of live sound said it was "the best mix he'd heard at a fair like this" so maybe I have my head up my ass.
