Tonight was my band's first rehearsal in a few months and the first outing for my AX8.
I'd set up several presets at home playing through a headphone mixer set flat as I want to go direct FOH and didn't see the point in setting up patches with my power amp and cab.
I knew full well that my presets would more than likely need adjustment to fit in with the band in a mix and had a few good sounds by the end of the night so a promising start but work to do.
As a quick fix I adjusted the eq on the output but know I need to get my tones as close as I can without resorting to that.
My questions are:
1) I didn't feel as though I had as much presence in the band mix as previously...in isolation it sounded good, but sounded really thin when playing with the other guitarist? Is this just a case of adjusting bass, middle & treble on the amp and high and low cut on the cabs?
2) Effects lost in the mix. This mainly applied to delay. Presumably I need to increase the mix?
3) Scenes not as loud in relation to each other as when played in isolation. As I'm using scene controller 2 to control cab level presumably I raise and lower levels as required with this?
4) We rehearse through a mixer with IEMs. At the end we tried panning the two guitars left and right which definitely cleaned the mix up, but is there any way I can have the output on my AX8 panned for some scenes and centred on others for leads? Or is this something that needs to be done on the mixer?
All in all an encouraging if slightly frustrating start. I was fully expecting it however and accept that's what comes of dialling in tones in any way other than how you intend to use it. I'll be going to our rehearsal space to spend a decent amount of time getting everything set up properly through our PA rather than IEMs but any tips or advice from those of you who've been there and done it would be greatly appreciated.
Apologies if any of my questions are daft!
I'd set up several presets at home playing through a headphone mixer set flat as I want to go direct FOH and didn't see the point in setting up patches with my power amp and cab.
I knew full well that my presets would more than likely need adjustment to fit in with the band in a mix and had a few good sounds by the end of the night so a promising start but work to do.
As a quick fix I adjusted the eq on the output but know I need to get my tones as close as I can without resorting to that.
My questions are:
1) I didn't feel as though I had as much presence in the band mix as previously...in isolation it sounded good, but sounded really thin when playing with the other guitarist? Is this just a case of adjusting bass, middle & treble on the amp and high and low cut on the cabs?
2) Effects lost in the mix. This mainly applied to delay. Presumably I need to increase the mix?
3) Scenes not as loud in relation to each other as when played in isolation. As I'm using scene controller 2 to control cab level presumably I raise and lower levels as required with this?
4) We rehearse through a mixer with IEMs. At the end we tried panning the two guitars left and right which definitely cleaned the mix up, but is there any way I can have the output on my AX8 panned for some scenes and centred on others for leads? Or is this something that needs to be done on the mixer?
All in all an encouraging if slightly frustrating start. I was fully expecting it however and accept that's what comes of dialling in tones in any way other than how you intend to use it. I'll be going to our rehearsal space to spend a decent amount of time getting everything set up properly through our PA rather than IEMs but any tips or advice from those of you who've been there and done it would be greatly appreciated.
Apologies if any of my questions are daft!