From tonysounds@yahoo.com Tue Aug 02 08:33:48 2005
Subject:Re: Q's re Pro3TM/Low Pro & Pro 145 Stereo Pair...dumb guitarists
The guitarist in my latin rock band was a complete idiot. He played one of those small Mesa amps (200+ watts in 1x12) that was so bright and brittle that it was painful to listen to. This is the guy that I had to use a pair of 3way cabs and 500w a side to compete with. And when I repeatedly tried to tell him that the cabinet was firing at his ankles so he could never hear it correctly, he'd get ticked off. I'd say "But Ricky, if you put the cabinet up on a chair, or angled at your ears, you'd hear the amp better." Response: "No, that changes the tone, when it's up like that it gets too treble-y." Me: "No dude, that's what your amp sounds like ALL THE TIME, you just can't hear it because it fires at your feet." Response: "BS man, you don't understand tone." Me: "Yes, you're right, I keep forgetting that fundamental physics principle that says the higher your speaker, the more shrill it gets because of the thinner density of the air."
What a moron.
T
Randal Muir wrote:
The trouble is, our sound generally comes out at ear level and is multi
directional (as are the drums and bass), whereas loud guitarists stand in
front of their amps, which are very directional and faced directly forward
into their calves. They then proceed to crank their volume so they can hear
it, which of course means it's umpteen times louder than everything else
.... The guitarists I have the least trouble with, are those who lean the
amp at an angle up to their ears. These are usually guys who have an
appreciation of the band as a whole and have an innate ability to fit their
sound perfectly into it. The best musicians in general are those who do
this. As an experiment, see if you can diplomatically get your guitarist to
put his amp at ear level at the volume he normally plays. The results of
this are usually very comical.
cheers -Randal
> Whazzup with that? The bane of the keyboardist! My guitar player (the one
in
> my band) has said, and I quote:
>
> "You are arguably the loudest thing on stage"....oh yeah?
> I beg to differ, my friend. If he even detects that there is a keyboard
(other
> than his) in the mix, he goes bonkers complaining that it's too loud!!!
>
> I fire up my rig in the sound check and he and the sax player scatter
> to the corners like cockroaches when ya turn on the lights. Then the
> guitar cranks up and the plaster falls off the ceiling and the liquid in
> the drinks at the back start to boil and everybody just stands there-
> doop-de-doop-de-doop...no big deal.............SHEESH!
>
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