Re: Creating Space

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

A quick solution for you would be to work with another guitarist :-))
A solution for this particular guitarist could to use an old fashioned
amp + cabinet rig and stand by his local instrument cabinet when
playing. That way he can hear himself a little better compared to his
instrument's level in the full PA mix (will learn to adjust to latency
by air distance though). The recording studio version of this trick
would be to sit in the same room as his cabinet and play while
regulating the balance between his own instrument and the rests of the
band mix by sliding his monitoring headphones a bit off his ears (if
needed that is, often guitar is recorded so loud that the player can
hear himself well all through the cans... might even need to use ear
plugs inside cans and crank up the monitoring headphones mix)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen



On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:20 AM, David Messenger <mssngr1@pacifier.com> 
wrote:
> Another thing I have to do on  a regular basis, is reach over to the amp 
> of
> the guitarist I work with a lot, and turn it off. Not only does he
> specialize in 64th notes, he always asks which slider on the board is his
> guitar, and, as soon as I'm not looking, he reaches over and pushes it 
> ALL
> the way to the top. At live shows, he comes with his 2 100 watt stacks 
> for a
> 60 seat venue, and with 3,000 to 4,000 watts out the mains, you still 
> can't
> hear the PA. I'm not slamming guitarists, heck I play one myself. There's
> just a small percentage out there that are not functional unless thier
> volume is high enough to completely envelope them, (along with everyone 
> else
> on stage).
> \rig