I've got a rack I put together for an acoustic guitarist I work with that consists of a Sennheiser EW100G2 wireless, a tuner, a Presonus Eureka for tone shaping and light compression and a Rane PE-17 for notch filters as needed. The signal comes from a variety of guitars, all loaded with Fishman piezo pickups under the bridge. It's fed through a monitors and FOH only, no stage amp. This is generally for a five to ten piece band with horns, sometimes part of the ensemble, sometimes by itself.
This is one of those instances where I should have just kept my big mouth shut, instead of correcting him when he was commenting on the nice tube sound from the preamp. As I took the signal off the unbalanced out on the wireless, it goes into the instrument input on the Presonus, thereby by passing the tube section of the preamp. You should have seen the look of horror on his face. I asked him what was wrong with the sound I was getting for him. he said absolutely nothing, but he wants to use everything he paid for. It simply has to go through the tube. Fine... I can either run it through a Radial and into the XLR on the Presonus or come directly out of the wireless XLR. Whatever.
My thought is that because a) it's going through a wireless and b) it's generally part of a band sound and not a solo guitar, that any minor gains will be negated. But I don't mind be wrong. As least as long as it's somewhat anonymously on an internet forum!
Am I missing something? Will this be an amazing improvement? Should I just install an orange light behind the tube (I hate when a manufacturer does that) and let him hear with his eyes? We're going to to try it anyway. What say you?
This is one of those instances where I should have just kept my big mouth shut, instead of correcting him when he was commenting on the nice tube sound from the preamp. As I took the signal off the unbalanced out on the wireless, it goes into the instrument input on the Presonus, thereby by passing the tube section of the preamp. You should have seen the look of horror on his face. I asked him what was wrong with the sound I was getting for him. he said absolutely nothing, but he wants to use everything he paid for. It simply has to go through the tube. Fine... I can either run it through a Radial and into the XLR on the Presonus or come directly out of the wireless XLR. Whatever.
My thought is that because a) it's going through a wireless and b) it's generally part of a band sound and not a solo guitar, that any minor gains will be negated. But I don't mind be wrong. As least as long as it's somewhat anonymously on an internet forum!
Am I missing something? Will this be an amazing improvement? Should I just install an orange light behind the tube (I hate when a manufacturer does that) and let him hear with his eyes? We're going to to try it anyway. What say you?