AMPLESS GUITAR RIG FULL

It is easy for band members to get into ‘volume wars’ while the sound dude/dudette takes everyone out of the mix but the vocals right before they throw up their hands and shake their heads.

AMPLESS GUITAR RIG FULL

It might sound awesome onstage, but you want the audience to have a great experience too, right? With monitors, side fills, several amps/cabs, and a fort full of cymbals onstage, things get loud quickly, and everything competes for the same sonic space. This results in an unbalanced mix that the sound person can’t fix. If all of the instruments onstage are blasting at full volume, the poor PA can’t keep up- and the people in the first few rows have their heads torn off by whatever instrument amplifier they are unlucky enough to be standing in front of. He also needs the right tools to balance the sound for the room. Generally, a band sounds the best to the audience when you have an attentive, knowledgeable sound person who is paid well by the band or venue. Those situations are exactly what we will be talking about here. Of course, no one is trying to tell every guitarist to do this, but it does seem to have merit in certain situations. Bass players and acoustic guitarists have gone direct for years, and technology is catching up to the ears of electric guitarists. Going direct doesn’t replace the traditional guitar/pedals/amp formula that has powered popular music for over 60 years. This article is about why some guitarists choose to go direct at gigs. Just the idea of doing a gig without your favorite amp roaring behind you is enough to send people to their sheds, grabbing pitchforks and lighting torches. Now I know the image above will give some people fits.

Ampless guitar rig