GK 800RB mid contour button: Yea or nay?

ErikG wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 4:40 pm GK 800RB mid contour button: Yea or nay?

Yea, in general. It's just a mid-scoop. When it's off it's just flat, but with a passive volume reduction to minimize volume differences.

Working on gain staging and such, trying to send everything a healthy level on the DAW

Room mic on a not too loud signal - how much gain are you sending those things?

Lets say cleanish electric guitar from a 2x6v6 amp with a 12” speaker. If you were trying to watch TV in the room you wouldn’t think it was at all quiet, but for a musician its not really blasting

We have a couple close mics 6” to 1’ away from the cab, equal distance - the close mic part seems pretty simple, I have a guitar loop going while I’m just making sure they’re the same distance from the speaker, they’re not overloading, and they sound good. Phase in relation to each other is good. This is the meat of the sound to me.

Then a room mic on the floor pointed at the speaker at whatever distance. PZM, Pro 37, just something to get you started with adding space. This is kind of the x-factor that I’m still trying to work out

Are you sending the room enough gain to where it responds similarly to a mic closer up, with peaks at -6db or something? My room is in a house and isnt that big at all, but it seems like if I’m sending it a lot of gain when I do that. Going past halfway on the gain knob w fader at zero. So if that were the case, are you rolling with a quieter signal or moving the mic closer in order to keep the gain down

Perhaps in asking this I am relying more on my eyes on the gain knob than ears, but I’m kind of learning to balance everything front and back in the overall image and getting everything to work together

I just set it to whatever it takes to peak at -12 dBFS on the DAW. That's my target for everything.

Nate Dort wrote: Sat Dec 03, 2022 7:18 pm I just set it to whatever it takes to peak at -12 dBFS on the DAW. That's my target for everything.

Perfect thank you

Would like to experiment with running a Traynor TS25 into a power amp to make it giggable. The line out is crazy hot (seen this reported elsewhere too).

Would a EFX signal pad, or JHS black box be appropriate to attenuate the line level signal between Traynor and power amp?

I guess it's the equivalent of an effects loop, position wise?

Adam_I_III wrote: Sun Dec 04, 2022 3:18 am Would like to experiment with running a Traynor TS25 into a power amp to make it giggable. The line out is crazy hot (seen this reported elsewhere too).

Would a EFX signal pad, or JHS black box be appropriate to attenuate the line level signal between Traynor and power amp?

I guess it's the equivalent of an effects loop, position wise?

Pretty much any passive volume reducer should be fine. I’m unfamiliar with the units listed above, but any regular volume pedal should work. The sign an is probably lower impedance/higher current, so my guess is that you can get away with a lot. Still, it’s never a bad idea to use shorter cable runs if you’re going to use a hige impedance volume reducer/pad.

Cheers!

Chicago folks, where do you take your amps for service? My dude retired and my old Orange needs a checkup.

Owen wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:57 pm Chicago folks, where do you take your amps for service? My dude retired and my old Orange needs a checkup.

I can say do not go to Deltronics, they did a number on my old Epiphone and it took them forever to do it wrong.

Kniferide wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 9:07 pm

Owen wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:57 pm Chicago folks, where do you take your amps for service? My dude retired and my old Orange needs a checkup.

I can say do not go to Deltronics, they did a number on my old Epiphone and it took them forever to do it wrong.

I also had a TERRIBLE experience w/ them. Dudes completely effed me a few years back. I was making a special trip out to the far west burbs to drop off a machine on a Saturday. They said they'd be there to receive it. I was running a little late so was making up time and an Indiana state cop got me for a really, really bad ticket - ok, sure that's really on me and not them but still bitter AF for it. I still got there well-within the agreed-upon time window and no one was there. Waited an hour to see if someone would show. No one answering phone.

My comms w/ them were like "hey where the fuck were you, do you know what I went through to get there in time?" Their response was "yeah we were waiting for you last weekend and you didn't show up" and of course I replied with "then why didn't you call and ask me or even just reply back to the email about me being a no show? Either way, if you scroll up, very clear we agreed on THIS weekend." No response. Between ticket, tolls, & gas that was a VERY expensive trip to nowhere.