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No monitors, never. In my former bands with vocals we only wanted
vocals on the monitor, nothing else.
as for hearing eachother: with a thought out set-up, you can hear
eachother. lead and bass half behind the kit. 2nd guitar next to the
bass. I sometimes have trouble hearing the 2nd guitar (playing lead)
but it's not really necessary, and the win is more then the loss.
volume: with 4x6L6 amps you have plenty, plenty volume, with the drum
low in the mix. We've played to 150 people in a 20 by 15 yards hall
and had to turn down. I've seen the Nebulas fill out a hall at least
twice as large without a PA, and they were earshredding loud.
(showman, twin and i guess bassman)
If you have to invest, get a small second amp for the lead and A/B it
so you get a bit of lead to the other side of the stage, helps
spreading the sound. I used to do this when we played with Hammond
organ cause the Leslie was uhh, rather dominating on one side of the
stage.
Eitherway, a soundsystem in the affordable pricerange usually does
more bad then good, takes the spine out of the overall sound + you
have to turn the amps down below acceptable sound quality. Leave
those for the wedding singers...
my 2 cents
wannes
--- In , "Gavin Ehringer"
<gavinehringer@e...> wrote:
> I found this thread very interesting, particularly since my band is
> coming together and I assumed we'd need the full powered
> mixer, backline and monitors. I was heartened by Dave
> Wronski's input and will be eager to try our stage setup in the
> way he prescribed. I like the idea of a simplified system...after
> all, the early surf bands had nothing but their amps in the
> backline and maybe a microphone and p.a. to announce the
> songs.
>
> Question: can you get an acceptable volume and balance with
> just the instruments and amps (i.e. an 85 watt Fender or two,
> 100 watt bass amp, and drums?) For an average club, how
> much power do you need for a power mixer and speakers? Can
> a band do away with a sound man?
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> Very curious.
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> Gavin
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