Played bass guitar - thru some bass (SV) presets I have - with my Country band last night. First gig with the new Avatar B210 cab I recently received. Drove 82 miles [one way] down the interstate to a wine bar - yes! Wine bar for a 3hr gig. First gig for us at this venue. New B210 cab performed stellar and needed some breaking in
My bedroom is larger than this place !! We left the acoustic drums at home and brought the Roland TD rig. Set that on the stage.. stage is a relative term. Think small-town America old-world curved-glass retail-shop window with room for about 4 display mannequins. My kids bathroom upstairs is *larger*. There was so little room I set up my rig (Axe-II, Crown Xti4000 amp, Avatar B210 cab) in *front* of the drums. When I say in front, I mean the speakon connector on back of the B210 was touching the drum kits front support leg. Nowhere else to go, and I played on the floor in front of stage as customers brushed past me while entering and exiting the bar. LOL. Had to run line from OUT2 to mixer used for drums, and pan input hard right (2 speakers used for drums), so drummer could hear some bass. I had OUT1 set to about 8 o'clock for the gig.. If I rolled it up.. the walls would have rattled. Owner not happy
Guitar player brought his Bose tower for vocals. Having heard/used them in larger settings I was thinking uh-oh!
But no, 3 vocals with a little reverb and that single tower handle the vocals with clarity, definition and punch. I wouldn't use them/it for anything much larger, but GREAT (albeit expensive) for wine bar/coffee house size gigs.
Apprehensions, volume challenges and all aside... it was one of the strangest gigs I've done. Having gigged everywhere from the front porch of a double-wide to aircraft hangars, this one had to have ranked as one of the *funnest* gigs I've done.
My bedroom is larger than this place !! We left the acoustic drums at home and brought the Roland TD rig. Set that on the stage.. stage is a relative term. Think small-town America old-world curved-glass retail-shop window with room for about 4 display mannequins. My kids bathroom upstairs is *larger*. There was so little room I set up my rig (Axe-II, Crown Xti4000 amp, Avatar B210 cab) in *front* of the drums. When I say in front, I mean the speakon connector on back of the B210 was touching the drum kits front support leg. Nowhere else to go, and I played on the floor in front of stage as customers brushed past me while entering and exiting the bar. LOL. Had to run line from OUT2 to mixer used for drums, and pan input hard right (2 speakers used for drums), so drummer could hear some bass. I had OUT1 set to about 8 o'clock for the gig.. If I rolled it up.. the walls would have rattled. Owner not happy
Guitar player brought his Bose tower for vocals. Having heard/used them in larger settings I was thinking uh-oh!
But no, 3 vocals with a little reverb and that single tower handle the vocals with clarity, definition and punch. I wouldn't use them/it for anything much larger, but GREAT (albeit expensive) for wine bar/coffee house size gigs.
Apprehensions, volume challenges and all aside... it was one of the strangest gigs I've done. Having gigged everywhere from the front porch of a double-wide to aircraft hangars, this one had to have ranked as one of the *funnest* gigs I've done.