Keeping a Lid on the Volume

If your volume is awful, so is the show! I remember when my band first started playing in large halls, we had more bad feedback than a new Prince album!;)

Keeping a Lid on the Volume

Re:'65 deluxe reverb .... $2500 for a player , upwards of $3500 for investment/collecter piece .

Keeping a Lid on the Volume

I spent 2 years in my recording studio producing backing tracks for my one man show, I wanted kick ass background vox (yours truly) plus bass guitar, a stereo acoustic counter rythm where applicable, either captured live drum performances or my trusty Alesis 16, and big but simple Hammond organ or synthesizer hooks with main vox and rythm and lead electric guitar live over back trax burned to CD. The sound exceeds my expectations, I use a Lexicon Signature 284 guitar amp(3 watts per side) wicked up, use a Route 66 "808" for country or blues overdrive and a Radial Plexitube for Rawk. I get a huge guitar tone at low levels with the 284 and great pedals. The Route 66 compressor side gives me a great clean lead boost, also boosts the 808 side nicely, and the Plexitube has it's own lead/boost channel for Rawk, allows wonderfully harmonic and controllable feedback. On the rare occasions I need more live guitar volume I mic a Mojo 12 with a 57 and run it out the mains. I've never had a more controllable and balanced front sound in 30 years of playing live, although being single on stage can be lonely in a slow venue, but the 284 is key to all that, my spare guitar amp is an Egnater Rebel 20, controllable, sounds big but not as fat as the 284. I have big tube amps (tweaked JCM 2000, GT Solo 75 bone stock) but I use them for outdoor shows or recording only, even with GT PR's or Yellow Jackets in either they both are WAY loud when you wick up to where the power tubes/output transformers are audibly working (key to wonderful guitar tone), and with EL34's uber loud... For sound control a great low power tube guitar amp is hard to beat.

Keeping a Lid on the Volume

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Keeping a Lid on the Volume

Volume is the single biggest struggle. Also , I it so important to find a tone that works well with other instruments and other guitars. Some tones sound great alone but are just to muddy when the band is wailing away. I've learned to clean up and use less distortion.

Keeping a Lid on the Volume

This is a bit off topic but I'm searching to find how much an original '65 Deluxe Reverb amp would go for.

Re: Keeping a Lid on the Volume

while still playing loud enough to make it fun. After all, when the audience and the club owner go away happy at the end of the night, you can pretty much count on being asked back there again.