Double Bass hearing self on stage (DB forum thread)

[Don Higdon]

The point for me is that I occasionally find myself in far-from-ideal situations, where "the show must go on," and correcting the audience isn't an option.

You missed my admittedly facetious point.

 

[Ric Vice]

I'm bumping this because it's really the truth. You cannot out shout a crowd and win. It just gets to loud and then they leave.

Invite them in. They will come. If they don't you'll still sound good and it's their loss.

+1 I've always been a fan of this because I've actually played in situations where the volume of the audience would exceed a very substantial P.A. . Besides, all it does is hurt their ears and ours as well.

Ric

 

[jrlynch]

i agree with the musical intent of the thoughts here ... i particularly like the idea of setting up facing each other ... i've been seeing more and more of this setup recently ... but all it takes is one player, like say a guit*rist, to crank it up, and you're back to facing the "how do i hear myself" conundrum.

maybe if they made basses out of slabs of wood ... and frets

I'm bumping this because it's really the truth. You cannot out shout a crowd and win. It just gets to loud and then they leave.

Invite them in. They will come. If they don't you'll still sound good and it's their loss.

 

[Ric Vice]

i agree with the musical intent of the thoughts here ... i particularly like the idea of setting up facing each other ... i've been seeing more and more of this setup recently ... but all it takes is one player, like say a guit*rist, to crank it up, and you're back to facing the "how do i hear myself" conundrum.

maybe if they made basses out of slabs of wood ... and frets

The trio I play in has always put the drums to the side facing the piano. Of course that only works if you have a musical drummer. Fortunately we do.
Perhaps that's why I don't buy into the whole Bose Performer cylindrical
radiator concept. It's a great idea on paper, but if you have that same guit**ist it becomes more of a circle of doom.

Ric

 

[Phil Rowan]

Perhaps that's why I don't buy into the whole Bose Performer cylindrical
radiator concept. It's a great idea on paper, but if you have that same guit**ist it becomes more of a circle of doom.

Ric

Great, I'm gonna have nightmares now.

 

[Dave Irwin]

There are definitely some venues that swallow bass like crazy. Yesterday, I played in a steel building with a big lowd croud and hearing the bass on stage was a lost cause.
The best I could do was turn the bass down completely and punch some mids through.

I tried setting the speak acouple feet off the stage but no help.

I'm interested in a pole mounted speaker for definition on stage but I really need something that the whole band can hear. Not just for me.
Question is: An additional speaker run from my Clarus? Or a larger speaker I take to such gigs instead of the floor sitting speak.

What do you think?