fromthebark
Experienced
I know this isn't the best way to live a gigging life, but hey, I'm broke.. and it's gonna take a bit longer to keep stashing away for the monitor section of my rig.
since I sold my amp & most my pedals to afford the axe fx II, I am still putting away for an FRFR wedge, and the small club gigs we get, i'll arrive with just my axe, and ask for a line either mono, or if they could spare stereo to the board, to put the pad on and turn the faders down.. and just put me in my wedge & I'll be happy.. 9 out of 10 clubs it has worked just fine so far... Their PA's replicate me great, and their wedges are loud and sound good ENOUGH.. a bit icepicky sometimes, but I'm the only one hearing them, no big deal.
We finally played a club which people had warned up about a shitty sound guy (he actually turned out to be a real nice guy, but I'm good at making friends with anyone.. he did remind me of Sol Rosenberg though, If you know what I mean), & lack of monitors on stage. Hint - a NYC LES Club initialled FB. So I tried a few things. I have a passive yamaha wedge (which is a P.O.S., and even my best patches through a great monitor it sounds like sludge.. so I plugged into the front of my bassists emergency amp - an orange crush 2x12 bass amp (tried the fx loop but couldn't get a sound or level that satisfied me, but the main input actually worked 10 times better.. all knobs at 5.. TONS of clean headroom.. I'd actually liken it to say a Port City Pearl.. Just a Clean Super Flat sound, And all my patches sounded exactly as they should through it... This Orange Crush bass amp is Absolutely killer for aa last minute oh shit Axe FX monitor.. To be honest, one or two more shows sounding like that, I might just be happy and settle with this as my final rig. So Until I can afford my FRFR powered wedge... Currently have my eyes on the Atomic CLR, Yamaha DXR12, or Friedman just cause it looks damn cool..
I guess the moral is, in a pinch, Bass combos are made to stay clean as hell & get loud as hell so it makes sense they would be pretty darn good monitors for the axe fx if you are stuck with nothing else to work with.
since I sold my amp & most my pedals to afford the axe fx II, I am still putting away for an FRFR wedge, and the small club gigs we get, i'll arrive with just my axe, and ask for a line either mono, or if they could spare stereo to the board, to put the pad on and turn the faders down.. and just put me in my wedge & I'll be happy.. 9 out of 10 clubs it has worked just fine so far... Their PA's replicate me great, and their wedges are loud and sound good ENOUGH.. a bit icepicky sometimes, but I'm the only one hearing them, no big deal.
We finally played a club which people had warned up about a shitty sound guy (he actually turned out to be a real nice guy, but I'm good at making friends with anyone.. he did remind me of Sol Rosenberg though, If you know what I mean), & lack of monitors on stage. Hint - a NYC LES Club initialled FB. So I tried a few things. I have a passive yamaha wedge (which is a P.O.S., and even my best patches through a great monitor it sounds like sludge.. so I plugged into the front of my bassists emergency amp - an orange crush 2x12 bass amp (tried the fx loop but couldn't get a sound or level that satisfied me, but the main input actually worked 10 times better.. all knobs at 5.. TONS of clean headroom.. I'd actually liken it to say a Port City Pearl.. Just a Clean Super Flat sound, And all my patches sounded exactly as they should through it... This Orange Crush bass amp is Absolutely killer for aa last minute oh shit Axe FX monitor.. To be honest, one or two more shows sounding like that, I might just be happy and settle with this as my final rig. So Until I can afford my FRFR powered wedge... Currently have my eyes on the Atomic CLR, Yamaha DXR12, or Friedman just cause it looks damn cool..
I guess the moral is, in a pinch, Bass combos are made to stay clean as hell & get loud as hell so it makes sense they would be pretty darn good monitors for the axe fx if you are stuck with nothing else to work with.