Seattle_Ray
Member
Hi All,
First a brief background for context. For the past 20+ years I've primarily been a bass player. I know how to get great tone that can translate to a live environment with my bass rig, but I'm having trouble getting acceptable results with my guitar rig. I'm not new to playing guitar, but am new to playing it in a live band situation.
My rig consists of James Tyler Variax, Axe-FX 2, RCF monitor (or Ultimate Ear IEM's depending on the gig).
The problem I'm having is that the tones that I'm getting out of the AFX sound great when I'm practicing alone in my rehearsal space, or even when I record them. However, once I start playing in the live environment all of those great overdriven tones immediately get buried in the stage wash sound. From what I've been told by friends it sounds great out front. I can hear the clean sounds reasonably ok, but anything that's overdriven or distorted just fades out unless I just absolutely crank my monitor (which makes me worry about destroying my monitor and my ears).
I thought a good solution would be to have the band use in ear monitors. But again as soon as I start playing with the whole band the sound of my guitar quickly disappears. I thought that perhaps some of the cause is that the other guitar player is using distorted/overdriven sounds and that it's interfering with my ability to hear my own sounds. But there has to be a lot of bands with 2 or more overdriven guitar players.
I'm kind of a newb as a live guitar player, so any help/insight/advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Ray
First a brief background for context. For the past 20+ years I've primarily been a bass player. I know how to get great tone that can translate to a live environment with my bass rig, but I'm having trouble getting acceptable results with my guitar rig. I'm not new to playing guitar, but am new to playing it in a live band situation.
My rig consists of James Tyler Variax, Axe-FX 2, RCF monitor (or Ultimate Ear IEM's depending on the gig).
The problem I'm having is that the tones that I'm getting out of the AFX sound great when I'm practicing alone in my rehearsal space, or even when I record them. However, once I start playing in the live environment all of those great overdriven tones immediately get buried in the stage wash sound. From what I've been told by friends it sounds great out front. I can hear the clean sounds reasonably ok, but anything that's overdriven or distorted just fades out unless I just absolutely crank my monitor (which makes me worry about destroying my monitor and my ears).
I thought a good solution would be to have the band use in ear monitors. But again as soon as I start playing with the whole band the sound of my guitar quickly disappears. I thought that perhaps some of the cause is that the other guitar player is using distorted/overdriven sounds and that it's interfering with my ability to hear my own sounds. But there has to be a lot of bands with 2 or more overdriven guitar players.
I'm kind of a newb as a live guitar player, so any help/insight/advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Ray