Post by jbone on Jan 14, 2020 0:27:38 GMT -5
So for most of a year all our gigs have been acoustic. Our rehearsals have all been acoustic since there's really no room here to get the p.a. and amps out. It was hard enough when we had a house- 600 square feet- but with this travel trailer- 200 square feet- impossible. We just have room for the guitar, harps, and a music stand and book here.
So we recently booked a date at a brewery that has a p.a. and it's needed, we took a look/listen the other night and it's a bustling place, lots of ambient noise from patrons.. The plan is, we'll bring our amps and use their p.a. With that in mind, today I asked if Jo and I could take over the big rally hall for a while today so I could set up our p.a. and amps and we could actually go live electric. Which we did. It takes some effort to set up after toting it out, but it was well worth it. We went through a set amped and p.a.'d and it was so great.
Playing with sound reinforcement, while it takes effort to get it set up, is such a different and easy thing once you plug in and get started. Instruments and voices work much less hard to get sound out. It makes for much more nuanced playing and singing. Many times we've played out acoustic, I've felt the strain the day after and sometimes for longer, on my vocal cords. Let alone my harps don't suffer near as much meaning less reed wear. Jo can play guitar with less effort too.
We use single 12" 12 watt Silvertone1482 amps. The only difference between Jo's and mine is I put a different value pre amp tube in one slot to cut feedback some. I've used this amp for about 17 years now. Jo plugged her first guitar with a pickup into mine and loved it enough, we found her one for a decent deal. She's run Tele's, Strats, a Danelectro Danoblaster, a Kay 12 string, an Epiphone emperor Regent, an Epi Les Paul copy, a Kay Trutone with gold foil pickup, and several acoustic guitars with sound hole pickups through hers and it's all been good. She uses no pedals. I run a delay pedal between my mic and amp. We generally use only enough volume to get a bit over the crowd.
P.A is a Yamaha Stage Pass, 275 watts, 4 channels, 2 mic and 2 instrument. It has all the bells and whistles. Feedback suppression, reverb, decent settings on all channels, separate main volume and effect volume, monitor and aux inputs and all. I'm getting the hang of settings in different rooms. We use Shure Beta58 mics for vocals. About 1/3 to 1/2 of my harp playing today was through the p.a./Beta58. Clear, clean, crisp. Some distortion could be had with hand effects and bending etc. Not every song needs the warm round tone of a tube amp.
I'm reminded how much I dig playing amped!
So we recently booked a date at a brewery that has a p.a. and it's needed, we took a look/listen the other night and it's a bustling place, lots of ambient noise from patrons.. The plan is, we'll bring our amps and use their p.a. With that in mind, today I asked if Jo and I could take over the big rally hall for a while today so I could set up our p.a. and amps and we could actually go live electric. Which we did. It takes some effort to set up after toting it out, but it was well worth it. We went through a set amped and p.a.'d and it was so great.
Playing with sound reinforcement, while it takes effort to get it set up, is such a different and easy thing once you plug in and get started. Instruments and voices work much less hard to get sound out. It makes for much more nuanced playing and singing. Many times we've played out acoustic, I've felt the strain the day after and sometimes for longer, on my vocal cords. Let alone my harps don't suffer near as much meaning less reed wear. Jo can play guitar with less effort too.
We use single 12" 12 watt Silvertone1482 amps. The only difference between Jo's and mine is I put a different value pre amp tube in one slot to cut feedback some. I've used this amp for about 17 years now. Jo plugged her first guitar with a pickup into mine and loved it enough, we found her one for a decent deal. She's run Tele's, Strats, a Danelectro Danoblaster, a Kay 12 string, an Epiphone emperor Regent, an Epi Les Paul copy, a Kay Trutone with gold foil pickup, and several acoustic guitars with sound hole pickups through hers and it's all been good. She uses no pedals. I run a delay pedal between my mic and amp. We generally use only enough volume to get a bit over the crowd.
P.A is a Yamaha Stage Pass, 275 watts, 4 channels, 2 mic and 2 instrument. It has all the bells and whistles. Feedback suppression, reverb, decent settings on all channels, separate main volume and effect volume, monitor and aux inputs and all. I'm getting the hang of settings in different rooms. We use Shure Beta58 mics for vocals. About 1/3 to 1/2 of my harp playing today was through the p.a./Beta58. Clear, clean, crisp. Some distortion could be had with hand effects and bending etc. Not every song needs the warm round tone of a tube amp.
I'm reminded how much I dig playing amped!