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07-01-2011, 05:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: West Virginia | | | DIs and my personal tone
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I have a show coming up in August and it's gonna be scary. I have to use some amp I've never played before. I was told they are gonna DI and mic the rig.
I use a couple of overdrives and a delay on my board.
My question is:
can I get an eq pedal, like the boss one, and just put it at the end of my chain to kill the high freq. his of my overdrives?
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07-01-2011, 05:27 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Seattle, WA | | | How do you handle the noise from your overdrive when you play using your own rig? Will that solution not work with this situation? If not, why?
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07-01-2011, 05:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bristol, Connecticut, USA | | | Sure you can but I think a DI before your effects blended with a mic will sound killer.
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07-01-2011, 06:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: West Virginia | | | I've read here and else where that overdrives sent straight to FOH will get a lot of high end hiss. I was hoping an eq would cut those freqs off completely. Like a low pass filter.
I imagine this show is gonna be a little half arse. I can adjust the amp how I like, but I'm worried the DI signal will be the sound they project over the crowd.
The sets are only 25 minutes long, so they are cutting build up and break down by having bass players use the same rig and DI. All I have to work with to get my tone is my board.
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07-01-2011, 07:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: White Plains | | | I run my entire board straight into a JDI, then straight to the mixer. It sounds great. I never had any problem with high end hiss, or any unwanted noise for that matter.
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07-01-2011, 07:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | | | Don't they have eq on the board? If you just want to roll off the highs, I think almost any mixer should have an adequate eq for that. |
07-01-2011, 07:46 PM
|  | yiffffffTASTIC | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: California | | | yar. just go post efx di to the board. i do it all the time and i use kinda a lot of effects. sounds good.
you just have to trust the sound(wo)man to onow their venue and treat you right. |
07-01-2011, 07:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: West Virginia | | | OK. The hiss was the only thing I was worried about. I'm still gonna get an eq or para eq to give me more control over my sound. I use a lot of low mids to get that BRMC sound.
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07-01-2011, 08:16 PM
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Sure you can but I think a DI before your effects blended with a mic will sound killer.
| Agreed. A good DI at FOH will let them push heavy lows and detail, and compress it nicely too if they take a few seconds and have the gear. The speakers they mic will have a major rolloff after 5k, and if there is still hiss they and eq it very easily.
Coming from a FOH guy. |
07-01-2011, 08:29 PM
| | yiffffffTASTIC | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: California | | | my ocd-ish tendencies freaks me out when i think of somebody else being in control of my effects/clean blend. so i'd want to go post efx into the di, and always have. but i get why that DOES give Capt. FOH more control, i just dunno if i want to relinquish that control. |
07-01-2011, 08:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: West Virginia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by behndy my ocd-ish tendencies freaks me out when i think of somebody else being in control of my effects/clean blend. so i'd want to go post efx into the di, and always have. but i get why that DOES give Capt. FOH more control, i just dunno if i want to relinquish that control. | That's what I'm saying. I can't risk that. I'm too ocd myself.
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07-02-2011, 10:05 AM
|  | Holding the Line, Low, Loud & Proud | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Leander, TX (outside Austin) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tomhanzo That's what I'm saying. I can't risk that. I'm too ocd myself. | You will always be at the good will and ears of the FOH playing thru a PA, that is just the reality of the situation, no way for you to 'control' that so best to let go that idea and concentrate on your performance. What you can do is control what FOH gets from your rig that is why I use an amp modeller at the end of my chain and as often as possible my own DI. |
07-02-2011, 10:07 AM
|  | Master of Reality | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by onosson Don't they have eq on the board? If you just want to roll off the highs, I think almost any mixer should have an adequate eq for that. | +1.
Chances are your highs will be rolled off for you, since IME most sound guys don't think of bass guitar as being allowed north of 80Hz.
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