Average Sized Venue

[On The DL]

Most places I play are venues or churches etc seating 700-2000 people. I find that the bass rig provided (which can greatly vary in size and quality) can be lacking enough in which I just use my Radial Tone Bone instead, which is what I bring cause I fly, so very limited space.

I've tried different eq's, compression etc, but always find that going direct makes the lows very boomy. I always try to get the sound guys to mic the cab as well, no matter how small, but most times it's like pulling teeth to get a decent tone in a venue this size that's not boomy.

Just this last weekend I was in FL at a church seating 3000+ and they had an ampeg 1x15 on a concrete stage (what am I going to do with that, sit on it?) Does anyone have any good advice on how to better and more evenly reproduce bass frequencies in venues this size?

thanks!

[On The DL]

anybody?

[Spinal Tapper]

That's what DI boxes and monitors are for...

And if the sound is bad onstage, you just hafta suck it up and rock it - especially if the sound guys is telling you all sounds good in the crowd. That's what really matters.

[theshadow2001]

It's out of your hands. the signal after the DI/mic is the soundmans baby and he's going to do with it as he pleases. You can walk around the venue if you have a wireless and make some suggestions but really I'd just let the guy do his job. If he sucks there's nothing you can do about it. If he doesn't suck there's nothing you need to do about it.

You can't accuratley judge front of house sound from stage. Especially in that size of venue.

Micing the cabinet isn't going to reproduce your sound. The mic, the desk eq ,the PA speakers tuning/driver type, the front of house graphic equalizers, the room, the amount of people, the venue shape, size and acoustics, are all going to change your sound.

If the venue provides in adequate backline then it's unlikely the front of house and the ability of the operators are going to be much better.

[On The DL]

I use in-ears monitors and I'm not much concerned with the tone I'm hearing. I do know with pro audio touring companies it's just the standard to go di and mic a cab, but you're right, this depends on the quality of the backline. oh well, thanks for your replies