ShredFetus
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I was always curious as to how the GT-8 would sound straight into the PA...
I'd been using my 100W ss peavy bandit as a power amp with an external Marshall quad for practice. Which isn't the most desirable of setups, but at least it was loud enough for rehearsals. So anyway I thought I'd try plugging into the mixing board for once.
We played the set through, & halfway through the next I turned my amp off & went into the board. I switched to line/phones output (instead of stack return) and the tone was very similar right from the start. So thumbs up for the speaker sims :fing2: To my ears it sounded miles better than when I use the line out for direct recording. What really surprised me though was how different frequencies were jumping out alot more. Desirable frequencies. I suppose it was just because the power amp for the PA was probably a good few hundred watts more powerful than the bandit
but there was a huge difference in growl and grunt.
Now I thought at first that it would also bring out bad frequencies with the good ones, but here's where the EQ in the GT-8 works wonders. The EQ has low & high cut paramaters...so you can dial in great highs without getting the wash of high freq noise that is usually accompanied by it.
The low also helps in not messing with the bass players sound.
Do any of you guys go into the PA when they play live?
Now one question... is there a way to have both L&R outputs going into a guitar amp...but still have a lead going to the PA somehow??? This way you would know exactly how your sound will be coming through the PA & there won't be any stuffing around with mic positionings on the cab. Could you maybe use an A/B/Y box from one of the output channels???
Thanks for reading!!! Sheeesh I should have just written this post for paperback & sent you all out a copy :smack: Sorry for the long post!!!
*edit* I was rehearsing with my band 'Metal' playing original stuff kind of like Judas Priest, Maiden & Manowar...so I had some awesome mid gain Marshally tones happenin' :banana:
I'd been using my 100W ss peavy bandit as a power amp with an external Marshall quad for practice. Which isn't the most desirable of setups, but at least it was loud enough for rehearsals. So anyway I thought I'd try plugging into the mixing board for once.
We played the set through, & halfway through the next I turned my amp off & went into the board. I switched to line/phones output (instead of stack return) and the tone was very similar right from the start. So thumbs up for the speaker sims :fing2: To my ears it sounded miles better than when I use the line out for direct recording. What really surprised me though was how different frequencies were jumping out alot more. Desirable frequencies. I suppose it was just because the power amp for the PA was probably a good few hundred watts more powerful than the bandit
but there was a huge difference in growl and grunt.Now I thought at first that it would also bring out bad frequencies with the good ones, but here's where the EQ in the GT-8 works wonders. The EQ has low & high cut paramaters...so you can dial in great highs without getting the wash of high freq noise that is usually accompanied by it.
The low also helps in not messing with the bass players sound.Do any of you guys go into the PA when they play live?
Now one question... is there a way to have both L&R outputs going into a guitar amp...but still have a lead going to the PA somehow??? This way you would know exactly how your sound will be coming through the PA & there won't be any stuffing around with mic positionings on the cab. Could you maybe use an A/B/Y box from one of the output channels???
Thanks for reading!!! Sheeesh I should have just written this post for paperback & sent you all out a copy :smack: Sorry for the long post!!!
*edit* I was rehearsing with my band 'Metal' playing original stuff kind of like Judas Priest, Maiden & Manowar...so I had some awesome mid gain Marshally tones happenin' :banana:
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