RE: [Worship] Sound question / Guitars into PA system.

["Blomberg, Robert" <RBlomber@allstate.com>]

If you buy a pedal board like a Digitech RP-12 ??? it is possible to
do something like this, because the board has built in
amp & speaker emulators along with a tube in the preamp.
The guitarist can arrange to hear himself using the headphone 
output of the unit.  

The sound guy gets complete control over the sound level.

I do this frequently at our church.  I don't bother with the headphones.

I don't have the great sound that can come from a great amp etc...
but between the drums, bass, 2 keyboards, other guitars, it really
doesn't matter how unique or perfect my sound is.  Especially
since I don't really play much in the way of leads etc...

For me as a guitarist the advantage of  a multipurpose board like
this is that I don't spend any time fiddling with my sound like
the other guitarists do.   They constantly are twiddling their
EQ, gain, volume, effects level to try and achieve the perfect
sound.

Me, I just pick a sound and go with it, knowing that in the mix,
much of perfect sound I might spend hours trying to achieve
will be lost.

You definitely need some sort of amp & speaker- emulator 
if you want to go this route with electric guitars.  They don't 
sound right if you go straight into the PA without it.

That's my opinion though.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Don Newcomer [SMTP:newcomer@dickinson.edu]
> Sent:	Thursday, April 29, 1999 8:04 AM
> To:	worship@praise.net
> Subject:	[Worship] Sound question
> 
> Here's one for your sound folks.  We have an electric quitar and bass on
> our platform; both use direct boxes attached to their amps.  There have
> been complaints from the sound men that the guitar is too loud and,
> naturally, the guitarist claims that he's done all that he can.  The
> desire
> of the sound men is to remove the amps and have the guitar and bass play
> directly into the direct box to the sound board.  The guitarist questions
> whether this will work since he doesn't think his guitar has sufficient
> power to accomplish this.  Electronically, who's right in this case?
> 
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