Archive for September, 2010
September 28th, 2010 | 
Author: I am trying to gain control of the sound for my band using a mixing board, as well as front of house speakers. We also use guitar amp combos behind the guitarists.
The only way to get a decent sound is to use a mike. The line out scenario doesn’t capture the sound of the speaker. The speaker is an important and integral part of the amp sound.
The industry standard is to place a Shure SM-57 at one of the speakers. You will need to do some testing to find the best sounding speaker as well as the best position.
Usually, the mike is placed close to the grill without touching it. It is also common to angle the mike slightly away from the cone and somewhere between the cone and the outer edge of the speaker. But like I said, you will need to test what sounds best to you.
The microphone signal is then fed to the mixer.
Be aware of a common live sound problem when using vocals and smaller combos on a stage with live drummers. You will need very good monitoring to be able to hear smaller amps and vocals in such a setting! Even when you have a combo pointed directly at your head behind you, you may not hear yourself properly. This can be fixed if you have the amp close up, or you have good monitors.
Another common mistake is to have a bass amp with too little power. In most live settings a 100 watts bass amp is not much to talk about. Things which sounds fine and loud in a rehearsal setting suddenly is way under powered on a stage.
The audience, the room and the stage requires much more "juice" than you may think. It is not at all uncommon to have 400 watts or more on a live bass amp rig.
A major part of the live art is to have enough power to be able to hear yourself, having very good monitoring (in-ear, floor wedges and maybe even side fills), and then being able to turn things down as much as possible in order to make the job easier for the person at the mixer. The less sound there is on stage, the easier it is to get a clean, balanced and loud signal out front with the vocals on top.
I have headphones that can attach to regular mp3 players and ipods (the standard). I want to plug them in to my guitar amp so i can hear my guitar through the headphones but not the amp. It seems that the hole on my amp that says "headphones" is too big for my headphones. How would i go about plugging my headphones into my amp?
You’ll need a little adapter from Radio Shack or a similar electronics store. What you’ll need to find is an 1/8 inch female to 1/4 inch male stereo adapter. Expect to pay about $5-10.
Plug in and go to town!
New DVD that shows you how to maintain, repair and identify vintage tube amps. More information at www.recycledound.net
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Learn how to use the auto-wah effects pedal when playing the electric guitar in these free online music video lessons.
Expert: Gary Schutt
Bio: Gary Schutt was born and raised in Monticello, NY, and was taught how to play drums by his father. He later learned to play guitar. Gary attended Berklee College of Music.
Filmmaker: Gary Schutt
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http://www.worldmusicsupply.com/Fender-65-Deluxe-Reverb-Electric-Guitar-Amplifier.html
Jason Spencer from World Music Supply demonstrates the Fender ‘65 Deluxe Reverb electric guitar amplifier.
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Tags: '65, 021-7400-000, 1965, amp, amplifier, Deluxe, demo, demonstration, Electric, fender, guitar, music, reverb, review, supply, video, world, worldmusicsupply | 
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Fender Pro-Amp 1959/2009
i made this amp from parts, most parts i found at ebay just like the original cabinet with datecode, the ‘59 15″Jensen speaker,the chassis is a Weber kit
Harmonica: Hohner Marine Band
microphone:Shure Green Bullet with R5 element
pedal:Lonewolf Harp Delay
http://www.lwharpamps.com/delay.html
musicians: harmonica-Doug Jay
guitar-Kai Strauss guitar amp: Victoria Amp http://www.dougjay.com/
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One of Guitar Center’s fake commercials for Acoustic bass amps.
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i have a peavey envoy 110 guitar amp that stopped turning on just a few weeks ago (my pedals also stopped working). I think I figured out the problem (a power issue), but does anyone know how much it would cost to repair it?
Your pedals shouldn’t have stopped working unless they were on the same power source, which I doubt they were.
Yes, more amps means more oomph! You must realize that it is not just power and loudness. You need to figure what you are using it for, where it will be used, etc.
I have a 10 watt portable Acoustic amp for my Acoustic/Electric Guitar because I am not using anyplace but home for practice. It is loud enough to bug the neighbors and I try not to.
We use various mixers and amps with cordless pickups on the Guitars on stage and our Bass Player uses 500 watt Peavy tower amps.
Older amps tend to vibrate more and the sound is not as clear. Buy newer if you can. Technology has advanced to the point where Surround Sound speakers are 2" square. New Speakers are really smaller, louder and more stable than anything old. Just a thought.
Go to a Guitar Center near you and you will find that the sales people will be glad to let you try out a number of amps and will make recommendations to you based on your personal needs.
Good Luck & Rock On!!!
Here it is the clips from custom tube amp I made with another student for our end-of-career project in the university. We designed the schematic basing on tube amp fenders, and we too designed chassis and cabinet. It’s a 15W push-pull class AB with three 12AX7 in the preamp and two EL84 in the output, it has a Celestion G12-65 and a Ruby Tubes reverb. We design it to be similar to fender amps in order to play from jazz, blues and other soft styles to rock. We name it Bluexurious and it really sounds great. Its similar to a Blues Junior or a Princeton but with some more controls, a warmer tone and with less noise and a additional channel for having a little more boost for solos, which can be controlled by the switch on the front or by footswitch. We really enjoyed doing this project so we wanted to share with people around the web. The quality is not so good, ’cause I’ve recorded it on the video option of my photo camera, but it gives you an idea of its sound. If you want more there are some photos in this album of photobucket:
http://s767.photobucket.com/albums/xx312/jordileft/
I hope you like!
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