When I worked with one travelling rock band, we had a bass guitarist that liked to sing. But he was just screaming! So when he was screaming, I used to add 500 Hz for him on EQ, to add the 1'st singers' formant to his scream, and more reverberation, to make him sound acceptable. Several years later I met him, and he complained, "We recently were in a studio. Dude, they are so dumb, they even could not record my clean voice!"
"We recently were in a studio. Dude, they are so dumb, they even could not record my clean voice!"
obliviousness is the standard for many musicians unfortunately. And of course, they hear it from a completely different perspective anyway.
Cheers
Alan
That's the creativity part....guitar pedals to shape guitar sounds, ditto guitar amps and speakers.
That's all musos know, eq/effects and strings, amps, speakers etc.
That said, I have had essentially zero resistance from musos to trying 'something new', and in my case 100% preference.....technical explanations only bamboozle the typical muso, what matters is promise of change in sound.
Agreed, stage power is usually pretty rough with all kinds of loads in typical (pub/club/eatery) venues.
I have never heard of a power filter/condition for sale in a guitar shop.
Dan.
Speaking of power conditioning...
I was carrying a 2KW ferro-resonant transformer... Sometimes voltages in Soviet clubs were low, so it helped a lot. Except one case, when electric organ started vibrating with low speed like it was drunk... Light on the stage was steady... I measured voltage before the stabilizer, it was normal 220, but after it it was wobbling up and down, up and down... It turned to be, their local power station produced stable 220V, but 50 Hz was unstable.
I was carrying a 2KW ferro-resonant transformer... Sometimes voltages in Soviet clubs were low, so it helped a lot. Except one case, when electric organ started vibrating with low speed like it was drunk... Light on the stage was steady... I measured voltage before the stabilizer, it was normal 220, but after it it was wobbling up and down, up and down... It turned to be, their local power station produced stable 220V, but 50 Hz was unstable.
I have never heard of a power filter/condition for sale in a guitar shop.
Dan.
This is good news, gives me some hope
This is good news, gives me some hope
Here you go
Power Conditioners & Surge Protectors | Guitar Center
Response shaping never hurt Shure's sales...
Despite the 'purist' protestations, mic response shaping in rock'n'roll stage environment is useful for adding 'presence' and 'cutting through' stage/PA typical noises and distortions.
Wavebourn, I had another listen to your new 42W amp and I still reckon the 'naked' chassis sounds better. regardless of which speakers.....aluminium dulls and adds an unnatural sound of it's own imho.
I have also heard your outdoor PA many times (on FB) and I find it impressively good, really good on the 'folk music' genre you use it for.....the amount of reverb/delay and out of tune vocals not so much.
.Dan.
In my tube mics with 50 pF capsules 20M bootstrapped is enough.
Of course there were special instrumental tubes made, with very low grid currents, but I would not use them, because of very low transconductance.
You should not see it then.
I have also heard your outdoor PA many times (on FB) and I find it impressively good, really good on the 'folk music' genre you use it for.....the amount of reverb/delay and out of tune vocals not so much.
It is such a genre. Bards, who are more poets than musicians. On BAF I am going to play some jazz and classic through them.
Edit: here is a typical example. Very famous senior bard. Recorded way off-axis, as you may see! But what is precious here, his satire.
https://www.facebook.com/anatoliy.lisovskiy/videos/1105623126139955/
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In my tube mics with 50 pF capsules 20M bootstrapped is enough.
Of course there were special instrumental tubes made, with very low grid currents, but I would not use them, because of very low transconductance.
Hence not low noise, and the mystery.
EDIT - My search found it is a 6922 from Telefunken.
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...or some guru speaking to apprentices?
Yes, I find very little rocket science in stuff designed for musicians.
The same science, but instead of removing audible dynamic distortions, adding them to shape the sound, so it helps to express change of feelings. "My wife left me, and even self-driving car is gone".
...I'm so fat and lonely, and my bottle of whisky is empty, too.
This is the blues, man, yeah!
...I'm so fat and lonely, and my bottle of whisky is empty, too.
This is the blues, man, yeah!
...and I am getting boulder and boulder, so no chicks love me any more!
boulder, is that something like a rolling stone?...and I am getting boulder and boulder, so no chicks love me any more!
Why must there be shame? The shame should be in lying about it. People dig it, where is the down side besides false advertising?
In the case with guitars it was passive (a lot of capacitance, requires discharge resistors for safety or something to drain them).
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