and you wanna know something freaky? i never do any of this. no eq, no lo/hi cut...just a little tweak of the global eq for foh if it needs it (just to compensate for crappy pa systems). otherwise it's flat all the way and sounds bloody terrific
Yep. A guitar cabinet will disperse sound and fill the room quite differently than a full range PA style cabinet will, particularly in the high frequencies.
Not really.The IR supplies all the EQing that you need, the IRs job doesn't start to fail above 5k or so, why should it?
I get high frequencies out of the output that just aren't there in a real amplifier.
Not really.
The IR simulates a close mic'd cabinet, which can yield extended highs and lows, which is why sound engineers will high/low cut a guitar track to fit in the mix.
Just because a tech has never asked for it, doesn't mean that they don't do it. A competent sound tech will do what he needs to do at the desk.
I have never seen one cutting the outer ends. They couldn't do it yesterday and they don't see a need today for it..
I wonder how many "amp in the room" people are also trying to chase/emulate the tone of their guitar heros?
And I wonder how many of those "amp in the room" people realize that they've never actually heard their guitar heroes' tone "amp in the room", but always through a mic?
As a matter of fact, only a very tiny percentage of people have actually heard a guitar amp directly with their own ears, and most of those (the ones called "the bass player", or "the drummer", or "the singer") are probably not really paying a whole lot of attention to the nuances of the guitar tone.