Re: [Harp-L] Re: Hearing Yourself

[Ron Good <rdg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Most bands that play local small to medium sized rooms use two or three 
stage monitors and a front PA consisting of at least a separate bass bin 
and mid-high cab on each side, driven usually by 400-1000 watts. One 
exception is a band that to me has the best overall tone and mixed 
individual instrument levels of any of them, perfectly adequate stage 
and room levels (I know because I've sat in with them for hours and 
listened for hours more) and their entire PA consists of a very basic 6 
channel powered mixer with reverb (roughly 100 watts) and two boxes with 
12" speakers and horns placed on the floor of the front of the stage--no 
monitors, no EQ, etc. They do not mic the guitar (Blues Jr), nor the 
drums, nor the bass (I would hazard the bass players rig is in the 
neighbourhood of 100-150 watts solid state). They sound aggressively 
loud, but never noisy, and never too loud. What a treat to play with.

There's a lesson there somewhere.

Ron

bloozeharp wrote:

> Tenititus is serious stuff. 24hrs a day-no relief-ringing in the ears. 
> Some folks have comtemplated suicide because of it.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "S.Doyle Yoder Sr" 
> <doyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Bob Cohen" <bcohen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "bloozeharp" 
> <bloozeharp@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Harp-L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 7:42 AM
> Subject: RE: [Harp-L] feedback/ vs: ringing in the ears
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of Bob Cohen
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:33 PM
> > To: bloozeharp
> > Cc: Harp-L
> > Subject: Re: [Harp-L] feedback
> >
> >
> > bloozeharp wrote:
> >
> > > Well Bob, I hate to pop your bubble but one of these days you are going
> > > to be sitting around like me (at 56) not able to hear jack----.
> >
> >
> > Whadja say sonny? Thanks. But I've got no bubbles left to pop.
> >
> > About 30 years ago I discovered that I had tenititus, (ringing in the 
> > ears),
> > and there are times that I think that someone is blowing a super high 
> > 'E' in
> > the background.  But, thankgoodness that hasn't halted my love for the
> > music, that I hear above it.
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Harp-L is sponsored by SPAH, http://www.spah.org
> > Harp-L@xxxxxxxxxx
> > http://harp-l.org/mailman/listinfo/harp-l
>
> _______________________________________________
> Harp-L is sponsored by SPAH, http://www.spah.org
> Harp-L@xxxxxxxxxx
> http://harp-l.org/mailman/listinfo/harp-l