(I also posted this on TGP)
Seems like every post I read about live sound involves either miking or sending signals direct to FOH (through an Axe-fx, pod or the like) for a sound man to manipulate.
My cover band has played all kinds of rooms and now regularly plays one that I'd call pretty big for a bar/club. But none of the places we play (i.e. bars) ever have a sound man. Also, the singer in our band is for some reason against miking the guitars. So we have vox and keyboards running to FOH and all the rest just cranked up.
Even if we did mike the guitars and/or send signals to FOH (I have an Axe-Fx), since we run the mixer from on the stage I don't know who would make sure we have a proper mix in any event. I guess the singer going out into the crowd with his wireless mike and then coming back on stage to fiddle with the knobs.
All of this means if I want to use my Axe-fx I really have to use it like an alternative to an amp i.e. through a head and cabinet (which sounds great by the way) but not direct to FOH.
Does anybody else do gigs this way or is it just me? Maybe it's just the fact that we do covers and the bars we play, but where are all these sound men I keep reading about?
Anybody here use Axe-fx into head and cab and just crank it up without miking or going to FOH?
Seems like every post I read about live sound involves either miking or sending signals direct to FOH (through an Axe-fx, pod or the like) for a sound man to manipulate.
My cover band has played all kinds of rooms and now regularly plays one that I'd call pretty big for a bar/club. But none of the places we play (i.e. bars) ever have a sound man. Also, the singer in our band is for some reason against miking the guitars. So we have vox and keyboards running to FOH and all the rest just cranked up.
Even if we did mike the guitars and/or send signals to FOH (I have an Axe-Fx), since we run the mixer from on the stage I don't know who would make sure we have a proper mix in any event. I guess the singer going out into the crowd with his wireless mike and then coming back on stage to fiddle with the knobs.
All of this means if I want to use my Axe-fx I really have to use it like an alternative to an amp i.e. through a head and cabinet (which sounds great by the way) but not direct to FOH.
Does anybody else do gigs this way or is it just me? Maybe it's just the fact that we do covers and the bars we play, but where are all these sound men I keep reading about?
Anybody here use Axe-fx into head and cab and just crank it up without miking or going to FOH?