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    Mike guitar amp or plug into direct box?

    That brings up the matter of how to mike the bass guitar. This interesting thread suggests using a mike and DI. It's possible that I'll have enough channels to do that, but wouldn't there be phase issues? The line feed should be instantaneous while the amp has to produce the sound, have it hit...
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    Mike guitar amp or plug into direct box?

    Thanks, so I put a 57 in front of the cone.
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    Mike guitar amp or plug into direct box?

    As a newbie soundman, what are the tradeoffs in deciding whether to mike a guitar amp (SM57) as opposed to running it through a direct box to the board?
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    Newbie question(s) on Soundcraft GB4

    By way of introduction, I'm new to this but I don't have a day job. I'm a retired computer programmer living in a 55+ community that has a 350 seat theater with a Soundcraft GB4 (32 channel) board. We mostly get tribute bands - this coming year we have the Rolling Stones, Doors, Creedence, Neil...