Your monitor mix doesn't sound good, or your FOH doesn't sound good, or both?
What monitor are you using, and what is the FOH speaker system?
1. What type / size are your studio monitors? In my case I drive those into nasty distortion too easily but I only have 5" equipped JBL LSR305s.
I create my sounds on my DXR10, and I do it good and loud.
So far live, through a decent PA, the most I have to do is vary the global EQ.
2. What do you play through at rehearsals?
3. What tone don't you like? The monitor (and what is it).....FOH.....or both?
4. Have you listened to recordings of you live...and if so, have you compared to rehearsal recordings?
I use a wireless (Line 6 G30) and check my tone out front.
Cheers,
Andy
I'm with Andy. I struggled a little before I got my DXR10, and that is now what I use to dial in my profiles at stage volume.
You have written that you use the direct out to foh. What about using the main outs left/ right to foh? Or do i missunderstood it?
My configuration is monitor out mono to my frfr monitor and main outs to foh. All with cab sim on.
Cheers
Frank
It's a big difference between tweaking rigs for home recording than to live playing.
For live use I can only recommend tweaking in rehearshal room at a loud level in band context. If you use thise tweaked rigs for bedroom level you will be suprised how they sound because you need less bass and more mids for live playing imho.
It's a big difference between tweaking rigs for home recording than to live playing.
For live use I can only recommend tweaking in rehearshal room at a loud level in band context. If you use thise tweaked rigs for bedroom level you will be suprised how they sound because you need less bass and more mids for live playing imho.
This .... many many times over.
In isolation, you want to feel the bottom end and the warmth of the lows in your tone. When you are live, this part of your tone (unless you are playing metal) gets sucked up by the kick and bass and what is left is mids and highs.
Too much highs and you get the classic "ice-pick-in-the-ear" sound that actually hurts people. You only need enough highs to add clarity to your tone. For guitars, mids are where its at.
).Now, in theory, even if you create something with your studio monitors, it will sound very similar on your live rig as well.
I thought that you could save the eqs in the output section.
Since live EQ differs from home (better: guitar only) EQ, I use studio headphone and AUX In to tweak my profiles to backing tracks / songs. This works out of the box for each and every profile I use(d). By that you can place yourself very good in the mix, your neighbors stay your friends and your co-musicians do not get bored during rehearsal. (Imagine the keyboard player would tweal his sounds in rehearsal ... oh boy ...)
Since live EQ differs from home (better: guitar only) EQ, I use studio headphone and AUX In to tweak my profiles to backing tracks / songs. This works out of the box for each and every profile I use(d). By that you can place yourself very good in the mix, your neighbors stay your friends and your co-musicians do not get bored during rehearsal. (Imagine the keyboard player would tweal his sounds in rehearsal ... oh boy ...)
That is a good idea, if it translates well to the live situation.
That is a good idea, if it translates well to the live situation.
It does. If you would feel the need you could tweak it further anyways but I never needed to. Using this approach you "simulate" the frequencies of the live band using a recording. I recommend to play along with the track using the Studio EQ. Just play with it a little bit and you will get the idea.
