HELP!
I have a big show tonight with my Bon Jovi tribute and need some EQ advice. This will be out second show, and maybe my 4th with the axe fx2..
At rehearsal my DIRECT Freidman BE tone is great. We rehearse loud and I've made high/low cuts in the cab block. I also have a PEQ block after the cab rolling off on some high/lows and also a slight mid boost. I'm dialling in at high volume, so all good, and sounds good.
I went to set up at the venue last night and had a few mins to hear my axe through the house PA.. Which is very very (very!) loud....
Now the high end is just too much. (It's not Bee in jam jar stuff, but its not my lovely sculpted tone). The house sound engineer said "it might sound too loud now, but once you get 300 people in here, they will absorb a lot of sound" (it's a relatively small venue and 300 is capacity).
So, I have couple of questions/comments i'd appreciate everyone's thoughts on.
1. I'm well aware that this is the fletcher Munson effect. However, I wondered... if the crowd will "absorb" much of the sound, and assuming this absorption results in a perceived decrease in volume, will the perceived highs then be tamed by this absorption?
2. Assuming the answer to Q1 is "no, that won't fix it. you're going to have to dial out that high end". I was going to compensate by rolling more highs off with global EQ. Is anyone else having to roll off "that much" high end
- keeping in mind that I've already cut in the cab block and PEQ already?
3. The prevailing advice seems to be to make your EQ look like a "frowning face". Obviously, that could look like different to a lot of people. Does anyone have a picture of how they set the Global EQ (or of you don't use this, then the PEQ or equivalent). I've drawn 4 examples in my picture (sorry I'm at work) to show various extremes of what I might try later. Which one of these is most like the option you guys take in a live setting?
Many thanks for everyone's help!
I have a big show tonight with my Bon Jovi tribute and need some EQ advice. This will be out second show, and maybe my 4th with the axe fx2..
At rehearsal my DIRECT Freidman BE tone is great. We rehearse loud and I've made high/low cuts in the cab block. I also have a PEQ block after the cab rolling off on some high/lows and also a slight mid boost. I'm dialling in at high volume, so all good, and sounds good.
I went to set up at the venue last night and had a few mins to hear my axe through the house PA.. Which is very very (very!) loud....
Now the high end is just too much. (It's not Bee in jam jar stuff, but its not my lovely sculpted tone). The house sound engineer said "it might sound too loud now, but once you get 300 people in here, they will absorb a lot of sound" (it's a relatively small venue and 300 is capacity).
So, I have couple of questions/comments i'd appreciate everyone's thoughts on.
1. I'm well aware that this is the fletcher Munson effect. However, I wondered... if the crowd will "absorb" much of the sound, and assuming this absorption results in a perceived decrease in volume, will the perceived highs then be tamed by this absorption?
2. Assuming the answer to Q1 is "no, that won't fix it. you're going to have to dial out that high end". I was going to compensate by rolling more highs off with global EQ. Is anyone else having to roll off "that much" high end
- keeping in mind that I've already cut in the cab block and PEQ already?
3. The prevailing advice seems to be to make your EQ look like a "frowning face". Obviously, that could look like different to a lot of people. Does anyone have a picture of how they set the Global EQ (or of you don't use this, then the PEQ or equivalent). I've drawn 4 examples in my picture (sorry I'm at work) to show various extremes of what I might try later. Which one of these is most like the option you guys take in a live setting?
Many thanks for everyone's help!