Re: "I need my acoustic in the subs"
Follow up to the story.
I went in Thursday to run FOH. So I went over to the mixer to check out the settings the guitar player came up with. Wow, it's amazing how all the eq's ended up at the 2 o'clock position...even the mid sweeps. They were all lined up nice and pretty. The gain was cranked way up and the channel fader was way down. The aux for the subs were of coarse turned almost all the way up. The part that made me go Hmmm, was the 100hz HPF was engaged.
So we did a quick sound check and the acoustic was in the red on the meter and the overall sound was not good at all....come on, it's a church, it's supposed to sound like a guitar. I called the guy over to the board and said, "I'm curious how you came up with these settings, maybe I can learn something. It appears you were trying to get a lot of low end in your guitar, so why would you engage the HPF?" He asked, "What's that?" OK so now we all know the guy IS a moron. I explained what it did and suggested we start over and work on the sound. He agreed. So I hooked up a wireless pack for the guitar so he could hear it out front while he played. Here's the comment I've been waiting for, "Man it's sounds a lot different out here. You just set it where you think is best." So I did, and now everybody is happy. And yes, there is some acoustic in the subs. Just enough to warm up the bottom.
Moral to the story:
Let the sound guy do his job.
