Practise & Live Settings

[ObscureRyan]

When you guys are at home practising, do you use the same settings when playing live? just change the output volume?

[phil.i.stein]

[quote name='ObscureRyan' post='1006199' date='Oct 30 2010, 12:07 PM']When you guys are at home practising, do you use the same settings when playing live? just change the output volume?[/quote]
gain / volume structure - yes.

e.q. ( o.k. so technically e.q. is gain ) - unfortunately, no. all rooms are different. tinkering is often required. it helps to have a long lead.

of course that's mainly due to the fact we play quite a loud backline.

Edited October 30, 2010 by phil.i.stein

[peted]

No. At home I tend to put a bit more bass in my sound. Live I roll it back and use the mids to cut through the mix.

[Phil Starr]

every room has different acoustics and this really affects bass frequencies most of all. If you have walls, ceilings, floors or any other surfaces within the sort of wavelengths involved in bass then they will emphasize or subtract from those frequencies. My practice room for example resonates right on bottom A. I use my tone controls essentially to get a flat response and then use the deep and bright settings on my Ashdown to vary the tone along with the tone control on the bass.

[thisnameistaken]

I use a different amp at home, so no!

(either a Hartke HA3500 or a little lousy Laney combo at home, an LH500 live and in rehearsals).

But FWIW I rarely touch the EQ. I get the right amount of bass boost and that's me done.

[xgsjx]

I have the resonant filters on my Murf set to act as an EQ for the sound I want, along with the VLE & VPF filters on the amp & adjust the EQ section on the amp to suit the room along with the out volume (input gain usually doesn't get touched).