joegarcia

It's a shame you're not closer as we are actually looking for a cat at the moment.

[quote name='Rich' post='1103559' date='Jan 26 2011, 01:09 PM']Joe, the FOH sound you gave us at the Fiddlers is still the best we've ever had there. [/quote] Awww, cheers chap! Great band though! You make it easy for us

Hubba hubba!

[quote name='Bankai' post='1102368' date='Jan 25 2011, 05:18 PM']I work at a 1400 capacity venue. For bass guitar if we're only using one channel, then we'll take a DI direct from the guitar. If we're using two we'll use a DI along with a microphone to the cab. If a bassist specifically asked me to take DI from their rig then I'd have no problem doing it, it's just I much prefer to do it this way. Why? -Protecting against failure of the amp -Musicians will often be changing settings during the show on an amp, this will of course affect the DI coming to the FoH and mean constant adjustment down this end as well -A DI from the amp will be EQed for THAT amp and cab, not for a FoH system That's why.[/quote] I work full time as a sound engineer too and this is spot on. Usually in the smaller venues the bassists amp is loud enough on stage for everyone out front to hear the character of 'their' sound anyway so a DI (before amp) is useful just to fill out the lows. At bigger venues I will usually mic the cab too (particularly if they're using lots of pedals) and have invested lots of nice mics for this puropse. When using a mic and DI I almost always just use the DI for lows and usually prefer a separate DI before the amp for the above reasons. If they're going for a super hifi modern slap type sound then just a decent clean DI usually works best anyway. It's a real balancing act as lots and lots of bass players have terrible amps, a terrible sound, haven't got a clue and don't actually really care. When this is the case I tend to almost take on a bit of a production role and get involved. It's usually pretty obvious when a bassist knows what they're doing and I always like to work with them closely when this is the case. Personally, when I play in smaller venues I usually take a mic that's decent enough to accurately reproduce all the highs and lows and a short stand so it makes it easy for the house guy and use just use that. My main current band has our stage sound pretty sorted anyway as we're instrumental and really loud so we don't usually need much PA support. Previously on bigger tours with our own FOH guy I'd be taking up three or four channels with bass but you can get away with that at bigger shows It was a three piece then too so I could (nearly) justify it.

If I was closer I'd probably have one.

Nice!