This is my first post and I'm still finding my way around, but as a life-long plank-spanker I'm keen to join the chats.
Just picking up on an earlier thread about kicking back your amp: I've doing it for 25 years and it really is the way to go. Nothing new; Leo Fender was putting tilt-back legs on his amps and speaker boxes in the 50s. Use an amp that's just loud enough for you to hear yourself (because it's pointing up at your ears you'll need much less volume), place it close to you, tilt it up and treat it as your personal monitor - since it's miked up you don't have to point at the audience and people on the other side of the stage can hear you in their monitors if they need to. Point it away from singers or anyone else who have trouble hearing themselves.
This approach brings down the overall stage volume and might even solve the problem of the guy in the church band who needs to quiet down their stage volume, without using enclosure, screens or baffles.
However, sometimes there's nothing like a big stage and a screaming 4 x 12 ...
Just picking up on an earlier thread about kicking back your amp: I've doing it for 25 years and it really is the way to go. Nothing new; Leo Fender was putting tilt-back legs on his amps and speaker boxes in the 50s. Use an amp that's just loud enough for you to hear yourself (because it's pointing up at your ears you'll need much less volume), place it close to you, tilt it up and treat it as your personal monitor - since it's miked up you don't have to point at the audience and people on the other side of the stage can hear you in their monitors if they need to. Point it away from singers or anyone else who have trouble hearing themselves.
This approach brings down the overall stage volume and might even solve the problem of the guy in the church band who needs to quiet down their stage volume, without using enclosure, screens or baffles.
However, sometimes there's nothing like a big stage and a screaming 4 x 12 ...
