Thought I would share new favorite rig:
I had a gig this past Sunday that I was an acoustical nightmare: basically playing in a packed, noisy college food court with a jazz trio, the pianist of which only plays keyboard (as oppose to an acoustic piano) a few times a year, so his knowledge of how to deal with amplification is minimal. Enter this setup:
Headway Band, EDB-2, Bose Packlite, MAS 26 (4 ohm).
This rig handled it like a champ. The thing that really impressed me was that I could actually really hear my intonation: I find when I am in lousy acoustical situations, and hit a note just slightly out of tune (as opposed to a real lemon) I can hear that it's not right, but have trouble hearing which direction it's not right in. Not so this time: the clarity really amazed me. Also impressive is how good it sounded with everything basically flat: I had the notch filter on the EDB set at about 150Hz (there is a resonant point on my bass right about there), and bumped up the lows to about 1:00, but that was pretty much it for the bulk of the night. (I took down the high mids a hair towards the end of the gig, when the room cleared some and there wasn't so much background noise). It ain't a cheap setup, and it is a bit more complicated than I would, in theory, prefer, but was pretty amazing how well it handled such an awful acoustic setting. And I am totally in love with having the EDB mounted on my music stand for easy access. Also, the 26 on the stand makes a great gig beverage table
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I had a gig this past Sunday that I was an acoustical nightmare: basically playing in a packed, noisy college food court with a jazz trio, the pianist of which only plays keyboard (as oppose to an acoustic piano) a few times a year, so his knowledge of how to deal with amplification is minimal. Enter this setup:
Headway Band, EDB-2, Bose Packlite, MAS 26 (4 ohm).
This rig handled it like a champ. The thing that really impressed me was that I could actually really hear my intonation: I find when I am in lousy acoustical situations, and hit a note just slightly out of tune (as opposed to a real lemon) I can hear that it's not right, but have trouble hearing which direction it's not right in. Not so this time: the clarity really amazed me. Also impressive is how good it sounded with everything basically flat: I had the notch filter on the EDB set at about 150Hz (there is a resonant point on my bass right about there), and bumped up the lows to about 1:00, but that was pretty much it for the bulk of the night. (I took down the high mids a hair towards the end of the gig, when the room cleared some and there wasn't so much background noise). It ain't a cheap setup, and it is a bit more complicated than I would, in theory, prefer, but was pretty amazing how well it handled such an awful acoustic setting. And I am totally in love with having the EDB mounted on my music stand for easy access. Also, the 26 on the stand makes a great gig beverage table
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