ChudFusk wrote: Fri Oct 17, 2025 11:33 pm

Garth wrote: Fri Oct 17, 2025 6:27 pm"sound wood"

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Garth wrote: Sat Oct 18, 2025 7:32 am

ChudFusk wrote: Fri Oct 17, 2025 11:33 pm

Garth wrote: Fri Oct 17, 2025 6:27 pm"sound wood"

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Any old piece of wood you set under the front edge of a combo amp to tilt it up towards the guitar player’s head. It also works on a lot of monitor speakers, especially repurposed FOH PA speakers that have shapes that aren’t all that conducive to pointing to a person’s head.

A chair can work here too and a variety of stands that are specifically made to position a combo amp in a way that the guitar player’s can hear it better. Im amazed at the number of professional touring guitar players that come through our venue that plop these smaller combo amps on the floor and they arent hearing anything close to an accurate representation of their playing so the audience ends up getting blasted with ice pick because that high-end information is usually what you miss when your ears arent in the cone of dispersion.

So yeah…”sound wood”.

losthighway wrote: Sat Oct 18, 2025 8:50 am

Garth wrote: Sat Oct 18, 2025 7:32 am

ChudFusk wrote: Fri Oct 17, 2025 11:33 pm

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Any old piece of wood you set under the front edge of a combo amp to tilt it up towards the guitar player’s head. It also works on a lot of monitor speakers, especially repurposed FOH PA speakers that have shapes that aren’t all that conducive to pointing to a person’s head.

A chair can work here too and a variety of stands that are specifically made to position a combo amp in a way that the guitar player’s can hear it better. Im amazed at the number of professional touring guitar players that come through our venue that plop these smaller combo amps on the floor and they arent hearing anything close to an accurate representation of their playing so the audience ends up getting blasted with ice pick because that high-end information is usually what you miss when your ears arent in the cone of dispersion.

So yeah…”sound wood”.

For decades, in my various practice spaces we haven't had floor wedges, but cheap PA speakers. Each sits angled up by a couple 2x4s nailed together next to the mic stands. It was the winning solution to make vocals audible without feedback over roaring guitar amps.

When some buddies started renting our space the dude's first comment was that it freaked him out to hear his vocals so clearly. I was like, "that's the only way I get good at singing the songs".

Garth wrote: Sat Oct 18, 2025 7:32 am

ChudFusk wrote: Fri Oct 17, 2025 11:33 pm

Garth wrote: Fri Oct 17, 2025 6:27 pm"sound wood"

???

Any old piece of wood you set under the front edge of a combo amp to tilt it up towards the guitar player’s head. It also works on a lot of monitor speakers, especially repurposed FOH PA speakers that have shapes that aren’t all that conducive to pointing to a person’s head.

A chair can work here too and a variety of stands that are specifically made to position a combo amp in a way that the guitar player’s can hear it better. Im amazed at the number of professional touring guitar players that come through our venue that plop these smaller combo amps on the floor and they arent hearing anything close to an accurate representation of their playing so the audience ends up getting blasted with ice pick because that high-end information is usually what you miss when your ears arent in the cone of dispersion.

So yeah…”sound wood”.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Tue Oct 28, 2025 3:24 pm One piece of under-appreciated gear are those cheap little stereo Avedis transformer boxes you can run line-level signals through to convert back to mic level so that you can cook your 2-mix with a preamp a bit.

It worked as advertised and kind of helped along the console illusion but I only ever used it at the very end of a mix and now I can’t fucking find it. No idea where it could be and its driving me crazy. I have these little radial di sized desktop boxes everywhere but this little bitch is nowhere in sight.

I’m at the tail end of mixing a 30-min long track and up to my ears in fiddly shit as it is. So I post about it.

Edit: it was in its goddamn box.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Tue Oct 28, 2025 9:02 pm https://avedisaudio.com/product/lpz/

Yes, kind of a reamp box, but its made to convert from line to mic level instead of line to instrument level. Its made to convert impedance, not just pad the signal down. I think a little cheaper than a similar Radial thing at $100 for two channels.

I have been going back and forth between using that box on a mix at mic level through pres and it seems to work better than using the pre’s line inputs, but I was fooling with other stuff on the 2-buss at the same time so haven’t done a true a/b yet.

Will also try to reamp the track down to instrument level with something else and run it through two preamp di’s just to see what happens.

Aside from plowing it with gain and pulling down the fader (which I do a little but not anywhere near fuzz territory), running things through pres does change the sound, so I usually mess with crap like this to follow the Midas Venice when I’m wrapping up a song just for an expensive console impression w/o plugins.