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<blockquote data-quote="Tim McCulloch" data-source="post: 146233" data-attributes="member: 67">Re: Do guitar players really need guitar in their own stage wedge?Steve, not to engage or continue a pissing contest, but you are getting at my point - the reason most guitarists put there amps there and make all their tonal/processing decisions is because....Wait for it......That&#039;s what they&#039;ve always done, what they&#039;ve seen done, and there&#039;s no changing anything.I think the actual disconnect between player and instrument is exactly at the speaker sitting on the floor as that is what causes the aural disconnect between what is coming off of the speaker and the player&#039;s ears.&nbsp; What you and countless other players have done is rationalize that disconnect - you adjust for whatever sounds right or good to you (and that makes sense).&nbsp; The problem is that almost nobody hears your &quot;sound&quot; that way; not other players on the stage nor much of the audience and certainly not the microphone placed anywhere within 30° of on-axis and &lt;6 feet away.I suggest that the issue is one of custom and expectation.&nbsp; If you had learned your craft with your amp in a different physical relationship to your ears, you&#039;d still play and sound as you would have anyway.&nbsp; You&#039;d still twist the knobs, apply processing, make decisions about stings &amp; picks &amp; technique, all to get what your looking for.&nbsp; Had this been a more direct path to your ears, come time to play out, the sound heard and created by you is the sound that more people will benefit from in the amplified and IEM&#039;d world.&nbsp; Since any change will be glacial I&#039;ll continue to hack away at the guitar strip EQ so what comes out of the PA sounds the way your rig sounds to you.&nbsp; See, I&#039;m a nice guy, mostly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tim McCulloch, post: 146233, member: 67"] Re: Do guitar players really need guitar in their own stage wedge? Steve, not to engage or continue a pissing contest, but you are getting at my point - the reason most guitarists put there amps there and make all their tonal/processing decisions is because.... Wait for it...... That's what they've always done, what they've seen done, and there's no changing anything. I think the actual disconnect between player and instrument is exactly at the speaker sitting on the floor as that is what causes the aural disconnect between what is coming off of the speaker and the player's ears. What you and countless other players have done is rationalize that disconnect - you adjust for whatever sounds right or good to you (and that makes sense). The problem is that almost nobody hears your "sound" that way; not other players on the stage nor much of the audience and certainly not the microphone placed anywhere within 30° of on-axis and <6 feet away. I suggest that the issue is one of custom and expectation. If you had learned your craft with your amp in a different physical relationship to your ears, you'd still play and sound as you would have anyway. You'd still twist the knobs, apply processing, make decisions about stings & picks & technique, all to get what your looking for. Had this been a more direct path to your ears, come time to play out, the sound heard and created by you is the sound that more people will benefit from in the amplified and IEM'd world. Since any change will be glacial I'll continue to hack away at the guitar strip EQ so what comes out of the PA sounds the way your rig sounds to you. See, I'm a nice guy, mostly. ;) [/QUOTE]

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