What equipment do you use for live performances?

juineaux · Unread post by **juineaux** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:17 pm

A P.A. is larger than an amp, but unfortantely they are not always louder. Guitar amps are colored(tonewise) towards an electric guitar, where as a PA is suppossed to be colorless and amplify everything(especially vocals) very naturally, but unless you have a nice system this rarely happens.

If you have a nice large guitar amp, I suggest using that with a little mixer, and EQ untill you get a decent sound. If you need something more than that invest in a nice PA.

Bill Efting · Unread post by **Bill Efting** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 1:13 pm

Man, you people have different setups than I'm used to seeing...that archtop is dead sexy though.

Heres my live rig

Guitars-
Peavey Firenza AX (Primary)
BC Rich Mockingbird (Secondary)
Kramer Strat Copy (Backup)
Hofner Acoustic-Electric
Fender Dreadnought
(I use DR strings exclusivly)

Amplifiers and Effects-
Polytone Brute III Amplifier spliced with a Trace Elliot 2x12
Digitech RP100
Dunlop Crybaby Wah Pedal

Other-
Planet Waves Cables, Dunlop Picks (.73), Heineken, and Camel Turkish Royals

I don't play Dave Matthews kinda stuff as you can probably tell, but I love the band like crazy, amazing music and Dave is a big influence on my acoustic playing...damnit I want that Archtop

ElGuitarrista · Unread post by **ElGuitarrista** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 12:20 am

Correct me if I'm wrong... but aren't the designs of many acoustic amps intended for coffee-shop type venues? I have a Kustom 60 Watt acoustic amp, for example, that has both an instrument and mic input. I've used the amp to play at a coffee shop and it seems to do the job. Even though my Taylor 514ce has a pickup, my other guitar (Michael Kelly in an alternate tuning) doesn't, so I played my instruments through a Shure SM57 mic (I just positioned the mic in front of the guitar where I was sitting). I think I got a pretty natural sound that way... it seemed to work well in the low-key venue. Then, I used an SM58 as the vocal mic. One thing I did was as follows: I ran the vocal mic into the instrument input, and the guitar mic into the vocal input. The reason I did that is because on my amp, there are effects for the instrument input such as 'chorus', but not on the vocal input. I put a little 'chorus' then on my vocal mic... I think it made my vocals sound a bit fuller. Has anyone ever tried that? Any other thoughs on set-ups for solo singer-songwriter performances?

Peace.

juineaux · Unread post by **juineaux** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 12:28 am

I was talking about using an electric guitar amp(like a marshall, or a fender) for an acoustic. I completely forgot about acoustic amps, I know some people who have them that swear by their sound.

mastermindmatthews3436 · Unread post by **mastermindmatthews3436** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 2:17 pm

one of them is me!! i have a peavey ecoustic amp and i deifnitly swear by that mother fucker....it tends to blow out if you try anythign harsh but it is so clean and natural otherwise, i use my mic(very cheap and shitty need a new one deinfitly) and my martin in that amp and it tends to be fine, only problem is when i use delay on my vocals it tends to get feedback, anyone knwo anyway to get rid of that??

Phan226 · Unread post by **Phan226** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 10:28 pm

takamine LTD90-->digitech digital delay-->vox wah--> Boss CS-2-->Fender Deluxe 40

Jc · Unread post by Jc » Tue Mar 30, 2004 4:31 pm

I finally got my equipment

I ended up getting the Fishman Rare Earth acoustic pickup because it made the Matrix Natural pickups sound like SH**. A Sennheiser E835 microphone which ended up sounding MUCH better than the SM58 that I thought I was going to get. An Ibanez CS 9 Stereo Chorus Pedal because it killed the Boss counterpart

A TubePre Preamp that was only $100 for the microphone. A Boss TU2 Chromatic Tuner Pedal. I wanted a compressor pedal really bad and unfortunately I tried out the popular Boss Compressor and was let down. I think I'm going to buy a Marshall ED1 Edward Compressor and I will officially be set with my live gig setup.

MWR · Unread post by **MWR** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:29 pm

Those new E series Sennheiser's are the shit. I bought one instead of a
SM57 but I really need a nice pre-amp.
I'm not exactly sure what a compressor PEDAL is but if your in the market for a compressor I've heard great things about RNC (really nice compressor).

Jc · Unread post by Jc » Wed Mar 31, 2004 4:33 am

Yeah I was truly blown away by the Sennheiser :shock:

What I call the compressor pedal is a pedal that levels off the guitars volume, like some parts where my HD 28 gets a bit boomy, it will level off the volume so it's not allowed to drown out my voice. I'm really surprised that more people don't look into compressors cause the guys I know that use them sound 10x better with them in live performances.

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