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Leveling lows doubling on synth and BG live.

zac2944

zac2944

Dec 28, 2004
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Rochester, NY
#1
Need help. I double on synth and bass guitar. At large gigs (>500 and outdoor venues) the synth can have way too much low end. I run both through an A/B/Y, into my amp, and use the amps DI. On stage both sound great because my amp doesn't produce the sub bass, but at large events the FOH subs knock people out if I'm not careful. Had this issue again tonight and I need to fix it. I mentioned the issue to the FOH engineer at check, suggested maybe a high pass at 60hz or something like that, but he just looked at me like I had three heads. Of course late in the set when the synth had his bass bins walking around his look was a lot different (more of a "what the fnck?" look).

How do pros handle this? Keyboard players must run into this all the time.
 
#3
Downunderwonder said:
Hpf. You just struck a 'pro'.
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I'm going to have to experiment a bit. I've a Zoom B3 that I can set to work as a HPF before sending to FOH. Problem is that most of my gigs are smaller 100-200ppl weddings/functions and dont have huge FOH rigs w massive bass bins, maybe just 1 or 2 powered 15" subs.

Another interesting thing is that when I have these issues, it is not necessarily on the lowest notes. On some patches the low end gets more offensive the higher I play. These are all analogue synth patches (moog), so often I can tame the bass by opening the filter but it reall kills the sound I'm going for. I create the patch at home and everything sounds great, sounds great at small gigs, large gigs = fail.
 

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