Amps are heavy!

[AFKAEjay(retired)]

I’ve done that before. The place where it falls apart for me personally is when I’m blending acoustically with other instruments.

Yesterday at rehearsal I was sitting next to a Steinway D-274. You don’t even want to know how shitty an ""FRFR"" sounds next to a Steinway concert grand piano

It’s like, imagine you’re listening to a string quartet where three of them are playing acoustically and the fourth one is coming out of a phone speaker

To me this also true for a drumkit. A drumkit on stage sounds a lot more midrangy then the end result at foh.
So…you need guitarsound A on stage to survive the “midrange attack”, and guitarsound B (“mixready”j for foh.
That’s why to me hybrid rigs work so well in a setting with acoustic sounds, preamp into powersection/cab, IRed version to foh.

 

[Baba]

I’ve done that before. The place where it falls apart for me personally is when I’m blending acoustically with other instruments.

Yesterday at rehearsal I was sitting next to a Steinway D-274. You don’t even want to know how shitty an ""FRFR"" sounds next to a Steinway concert grand piano

It’s like, imagine you’re listening to a string quartet where three of them are playing acoustically and the fourth one is coming out of a phone speaker

To me this also true for a drumkit. A drumkit on stage sounds a lot more midrangy then the end result at foh.
So…you need guitarsound A on stage to survive the “midrange attack”, and guitarsound B (“mixready”j for foh.
That’s why to me hybrid rigs work so well in a setting with acoustic sounds, preamp into powersection/cab, IRed version to foh.

1,000,000,000,000,000 %

 

[metropolis_4]

To me this also true for a drumkit. A drumkit on stage sounds a lot more midrangy then the end result at foh.
So…you need guitarsound A on stage to survive the “midrange attack”, and guitarsound B (“mixready”j for foh.
That’s why to me hybrid rigs work so well in a setting with acoustic sounds, preamp into powersection/cab, IRed version to foh.

Totally agree. The live sound of instruments on stage is so much different, I find that also makes IEM difficult to adapt to. All the instruments sound different in them.

I’ve been having good luck the past few weeks running a Mic-no-mo to the board and my cab on stage.

 

[AFKAEjay(retired)]

Totally agree. The live sound of instruments on stage is so much different, I find that also makes IEM difficult to adapt to. All the instruments sound different in them.

I’ve been having good luck the past few weeks running a Mic-no-mo to the board and my cab on stage.

Yeah…iem you are delivered to whatever god is setting up your mix

Mic no mo seems like a tried and proven solution afaik.
Personally I prefer preamp and cabsim on my board, allows going 100% direct with the same setup (minis amp), and allows using different amps while keeping the preamp consistent (into returns). Purely logistical reasons..I don’t like switching setups, so I try to keep as much the same as I can in different scenarios.

 

[Baba]

Totally agree. The live sound of instruments on stage is so much different, I find that also makes IEM difficult to adapt to. All the instruments sound different in them.

I kind of use my IEMs as mostly earplugs, so, they cut down the stage volumes, but I still hear everything, with the ambient noise, and then I add just a little guitar, and a lot of vocals in my ears.