Fact check

[1Drop]

Giggin the other night I felt my stage volume was too loud. I asked the soundman if it was causing him any problems. He said "no". I still felt like i could come down on stage so I told him I was going to cut my volume a bit. He seemed to think that he would need to increase foh bass to make up for it. I told him that my line out of the back of my gbe 1200 was a fixed volume and that me adjusting the volume wouldn't affect his signal. He looked at me like it was crazy talk. He did a fabulous job mixing for us but I was surprised he didn';t know this about line levels. .....OR Was he right? Need a fact check please!!

[TL5]

It depends on whether your stage volume was contributing to the over-all mix in the room.

[Lowtonejoe]

Originally Posted by 1Drop

Giggin the other night I felt my stage volume was too loud. I asked the soundman if it was causing him any problems. He said "no". I still felt like i could come down on stage so I told him I was going to cut my volume a bit. He seemed to think that he would need to increase foh bass to make up for it. I told him that my line out of the back of my gbe 1200 was a fixed volume and that me adjusting the volume wouldn't affect his signal. He looked at me like it was crazy talk. He did a fabulous job mixing for us but I was surprised he didn';t know this about line levels. .....OR Was he right? Need a fact check please!!

Sounds like your amp was so loud on stage that you were being used to support FOH! So yes, you were probably way too loud on stage.

So when you turned down the sound guy of course had to turn you up in the FOH mix.

Sounds like he handled it fine and you learned something new! No worries.



Joe.

[harmendebresser]

Indeed, you were both right... The line signal doesn't get less or more by adjusting the master, but he had to adjust the FOH when there's less bass coming from the stage (and he might've had a nice balance as it was) so he had to put more bass in the mains.

[1Drop]

Interesting. I'm sure the stage rig contributed to the foh sound a little bit but the house sound system was more than adequate, with 2 JBL 18's under the stage and 2 JBL 2x15 mains suspended. I've had other soundmen ask me to turn way down while getting my level mixed with the other instruments during set up, and then they give me the ok to raise my volume to whatever level I need for onstage monitoring, gigving me the impression that there should not be much bleed from stage sound to FOH.

In this last case I was the only one who felt the need to turn the bass down a bit onstage. We are a 6 piece and it was a tight stage so I was crammed up against my 2 2x12,s.

The hilarious part is that my volume on the gbe 1200 was set a hair past 1, not even 1.5. Overkill is an awesome thing!!! Til its load out time!

[TimmyP]

Some line outs and XLR outs are independent of the master volume, and some are not (which is stupid IMHO). Unless he was familiar with your particular model.....