so im in a metalcore band, right now we have not been having good luck with setting up live. the gear we use is a peavey 4 channel pa with two 12in speakers and two 10in monitors. Our rhythm player uses a peavey 100 watt half stack, lead player uses a randall 120 watt half stack and i the bass(best) player uses a gallien krueger full stack. and acourse our drummer. the problem we are having is that we can't hear each other live and dont have enough inputs to monitor guitars. can anyone give us a good way to set this equipment up so we could hear each other good.
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please help with my live setup for metalcore
- Thread starter kyle_saville
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Yep...tell the guitarists to tilt back their cabs, and all of you turn down. Their highs and mids are blowing past their ears, so they turn up to compensate, but you can't compensate. Plus you don't have a big enough PA to turn up to metalcore volumes. So you're going to have to come down to the PA's limitations, since it's the big limiting factor.
do you play with earplugs? If you don't I would recomend it. I'm in a metal band and we all wear attenuating earplugs. All the mid and high frequencies destroy your ears so you pretty much can't hear anything. The earplugs will cut most of these frequencies so you can actually hear whats being played. You can each get different plugs to filter different frequencies to better suit your own instrument.
and not only that, it'll save your ears.
and not only that, it'll save your ears.
+1... or upgrade your pa to some 15" mains with some subs with more inputs pushing a lot more wattage.
