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Re: Amp tone at home and with the band

4/20/2000 1:44 PM
Petey	Re: Amp tone at home and with the band Over the years of tweaking my sound (including the SS rack era), I've developed a technique which helps with the problem of "sounds good at home (i.e. alone), gets lost with the band". Now days, when ever I'm tweaking/evaluating amps, guitars, speakers etc. I always do it in a room I have specially set up for this (fairly large with your basic "home studio" type acoustical wall treatment etc.) AND always with some music playing through a playback (PA sort of) system. My system is permanently installed in the room and I just put in a CD of some inspiring tunes and crank it to near what the band level in the room is for rehearsal (not all that loud these days, I'm approaching geezerdom). I have noticed that the guitar sound I favor when there are other sounds mixing in the room air with it, is often quite different when the music stops and I hear the guitar sound by itself again. just my two cents, pt

4/20/2000 1:44 PM

Petey

Re: Amp tone at home and with the band

Over the years of tweaking my sound (including the SS rack era), I've developed a technique which helps with the problem of "sounds good at home (i.e. alone), gets lost with the band". Now days, when ever I'm tweaking/evaluating amps, guitars, speakers etc. I always do it in a room I have specially set up for this (fairly large with your basic "home studio" type acoustical wall treatment etc.) AND always with some music playing through a playback (PA sort of) system.
My system is permanently installed in the room and I just put in a CD of some inspiring tunes and crank it to near what the band level in the room is for rehearsal (not all that loud these days, I'm approaching geezerdom).
I have noticed that the guitar sound I favor when there are other sounds mixing in the room air with it, is often quite different when the music stops and I hear the guitar sound by itself again.

just my two cents,
pt