My set up

Craig · 2008-08-26T15:57:45+00:00

Well, i dont consider it the best set up in even my eyes, but for now, ive played around so much with my pedal, amp and guitar, ive finally gotten a signature sound out of my set up. I use a Ibanez S 520EX, with a Zoom 505II (say what you want about a zoom, but i find their proccessing capabilities to be more faster than most BOSS proccessors) and my old faithful, my Marshall AVT50 all valve amp.. (Which again i will say, murders most 150watt amps out there) ive been messing around for years with this set up, and the 505II for me gives off a "cleaner" and more crisper distortion than the BOSS MetalZone i used to jam with.. Comments are welcome, and if you have any tips about any one of my "helpers" please let me know, im open to any help with regards to making the most out of my set up.. (cause im no pro at doing it myself)

deanBailey

Maybe I was just unlucky to have only experienced weaker laney monitors but it wasn't the clarity or tone of the monitors that I have the most problem with. By "I" I really mean my drummer. It's that it's never loud enough, as we play with a kick trigger live (only ever really need guitars and kick in the monitor) and if you boost that too much It starts damaging the monitor. So we always end up playing with less than satisfactory on stage sound.

Next investment: In-ear Monitors! ?

AlanRatcliffe

You need a ton of headroom to put a kick sample in the monitors as you need a ton of headroom - even if you compress the hell out of it.

Drumming, the only time I was ecstatic about the monitors was when Kevin Winder did the sound and gave me a 600W Cerwin Vega F.O.H speaker as a monitor powered by a Crown 2400 ("Oh so that's what the bass guitar sounds like"). Those were the days before IEMs though - I would have killed for that.

teleplayer

We're running the Aviom system at the moment, really cool way of running IEMs... No constant comms with the sound guy about ur own mix.. Makes sound check a lot easier too, well per band member anyway

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