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I am kinda stuck on one thought here though and that’s why doesn’t someone just give Dave an amp for a few days? A good old fashioned plug it in and make a noise device to take this headache away from the audition.
If if you pass this part of the world at all, or can be bothered to come over, there’s a few you can choose from here @PC_Dave
You coming thru the PA may be a bit odd for them too tbh! They may love it or hate it as it does take time to get used to - also need to make sure they have enough inputs for you to go in the PA as they it sounds like a big band
In rehearsal you'll not need any monitoring - you'll hear yourself fine as will they, but for gigging you'll need something to hear yourself thru - either your own FRFR or the band monitors.
Also find out if they use IEMs - some bigger and more pro function bands do.
For the audition for that sort of band you'll just be using nice tight clean sounds most of the time I imagine - bit of boost (either for leads or even just to get the vol up if it's not loud enough, and some FX.
Good luck!
XLR L & R out to the desk and the monitor out to my DXR12 for monitoring.
At smaller venues I've got the DXR mounted on a speaker pole about head height with the 30 degree down angle, still with a small feed into the PA.
I used to use a Line6 M13 stompbox modeller with my normal amps pre Kemper, I found I can use it to assign nine different Kemper rigs to each of the slots in scene mode amd can rename them on the M13 to mirror whats on the Kemper.
I know @drwiddly uses his live as well as an AxeFX, so hopefully he can give you some advice.
equipement doesn’t matter - if it sounds good with little fuss.
Depends how relaxed the audition is - if it’s people you know already and just a first session together to check how it goes then you are probably ok to have a simple patch that works on the keeper into the PA explaining that you’ll buy some monitors.
- complete strangers and competing with other guitarists then I’d just borrow an amp for the night.
Rehearsal room might have something like a hrd anyway if you check.
Last year I bought a dxr10 and have tried it at gigs a few times but I feel it runs out of steam a bit and I struggle to hear myself. Occasionally, I bring a 35w Wharfedale valve combo and plug into the fx return. The amp has a Celestion Neo Creamback fitted which has made it a fair bit lighter. That cuts through on stage at less than halfway on the volume control and sounds pretty neutral for a valve power stage. If it was just for me, the dxr10 would be fine for monitoring but the rest of the band need to hear me too and it's not powerful enough for that. Better monitoring for the whole band would help but we're not there yet.
As for your circumstances, I think you'll be fine through the PA at your audition so long as you select your profile(s) carefully but, if you get the gig, you'll need to think about your onstage sound/monitoring/in-ears.
Good luck with the audition.
Kemper sounds great through a PA, but a ginormous PA at a top venue is very different to a fucked powered mixer from 1982 with only one speaker working.
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And I nearly always just take my Helix and go direct
ahhh yes, gatehouse studio in Swindon springs to mind. The PAs sound like a wasp farting in a kettle.