If you get into a room/stage area that's extremely echoey and/or loud and rumbly, or is very short front to back like the one I played at this past Saturday, I don't know that having a Schroeder on one side of the stage will allow everyone else to hear you perfectly clear on the other.
I've already found that it's an advantage on stage (I seem to have gravitated in all bands to the drummer's high hat side to his left facing the audience) to aim the cabinet a bit towards the center of the stage. I turn it at an angle where I pull the right front of the cabinet forward about 1/2 the width of the cabinet. My guess would be around a 60 degree angle in all venues, good and not so good acoustically.
I would say that under almost any conditions the players and singers in my bands, except for the one keyboard player I played with this past weekend who situated himself about as far back on the opposite side of the drummer with two singers in between him and the drummer distance wise (he was about 8 feet to our drummer's right facing the audience), all hear me better than with the other cabinets I've used. I have my 250 hz boosted full on my bass and the 125 boosted about a plus 4 on my outboard eq. I think this enhances the Schroeder's natural sound. Also, adds some fullness and tremendous punch to both the 410 and 1210. The 410 can take more bottom, but frankly, I'm actually cutting the bottom both on my amp and bass and turning up more to compensate on lousy acoustic venues and slightly boosting it in better sounding venues. In otherwords, these cabinets have a tremendous amount of clean low end available for those who want it and play in the kinda places where it's do-able.
I don't know again if this helps, but the Schroes in every case so far are much more "hearable" by me, and the vast majority of my bandmates than then other cabs I've used so far, but in crappy acoustic situations, it's less of a factor for my bandmates....I still hear it better even then.
Lkaye
I've already found that it's an advantage on stage (I seem to have gravitated in all bands to the drummer's high hat side to his left facing the audience) to aim the cabinet a bit towards the center of the stage. I turn it at an angle where I pull the right front of the cabinet forward about 1/2 the width of the cabinet. My guess would be around a 60 degree angle in all venues, good and not so good acoustically.
I would say that under almost any conditions the players and singers in my bands, except for the one keyboard player I played with this past weekend who situated himself about as far back on the opposite side of the drummer with two singers in between him and the drummer distance wise (he was about 8 feet to our drummer's right facing the audience), all hear me better than with the other cabinets I've used. I have my 250 hz boosted full on my bass and the 125 boosted about a plus 4 on my outboard eq. I think this enhances the Schroeder's natural sound. Also, adds some fullness and tremendous punch to both the 410 and 1210. The 410 can take more bottom, but frankly, I'm actually cutting the bottom both on my amp and bass and turning up more to compensate on lousy acoustic venues and slightly boosting it in better sounding venues. In otherwords, these cabinets have a tremendous amount of clean low end available for those who want it and play in the kinda places where it's do-able.
I don't know again if this helps, but the Schroes in every case so far are much more "hearable" by me, and the vast majority of my bandmates than then other cabs I've used so far, but in crappy acoustic situations, it's less of a factor for my bandmates....I still hear it better even then.
Lkaye
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