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At a jazz/blues type jam session it just sound wrong to have much more than a "make louder for solos" type pedal. So just go with what feels right to you.
With one caviat.
If you're playing in a room with hard floors, walls and ceilings, I don't care if you're the biggest fuckin' Hank Marvin fan in the world, turn down your BLOODY REVERB PEDAL!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Any other frequency and anywhere else and it was a normal - if slightly live - room, but that one frequency in that one corner went nuts.
I've tried to be, but it just doesn't really work for me.
I will say that there is a vast difference between really high quality fx and what you get on most low/mid priced modelling amps.
Being a wedding band, we find a lot of venues have marble or stone floors and/ or walls and basically couldn't have been designed worse, from an acoustic point of view.
Your job sounds fascinating. I'd love to follow you around for a day. I appreciate that the feeling might not be mutual.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
That's what ruined a Roger Whittaker gig for me.
Most days don't bring up anything quite as good as that, but there have been some really interesting spaces.
The absolute weirdest one was a corporate boardroom that had been built in (judging by the decor) the early eighties. It had a big oval desk, and over the desk the ceiling arched up by about a foot or so in a curve that aped the shape of the central part of the desk.
If you sat across the table from someone you could each hear each other perfectly normally. Nothing odd at all; a nicely damped room, not too much external noise, all good.
Stand up and lean forwards so that your head was under the arched ceiling and everything went really, really odd. The arch wasn't far off a perfect parabolic reflector, and the centre of the table was polished hardwood, so you got these incredible (and I mean that literally) echoes going on - fluttering and shimmering and chattering. It was amazing - at first I assumed it was a joke they'd set up with mics and speakers and DSP, but it really was just the acoustics. If you dropped a coin onto the middle bit of the table it sounded like thunder and it went on for a good ten seconds.
I was quite sad when I solved it so it didn't do that any more. It was like demolishing a modern wonder of the world.
A lot of modern buildings have awful acoustics because architects seem to be very into exposed polished concrete (it has good thermal characteristics) and glass and steel. It looks nice in photos but it's grim to work in, and if there isn't sufficient acoustic treatment you tend to see a lot of people going ill with stress.
Yesterday, played straight into the amp, no effects, bit of reverb on the amp, it was fantastic. Played for way longer than I usually do.
Don't know why I do this to myself.