Advice on how to play "loud" 😁

[JoshFossgreen]

@funplumbin1, I meant these:

Hearing Protection

Great stuff @eric.kiser! And yes @joergkutter, sound quality definitely matters, that’s why they make custom gear for musicians. This is what I use: (I didn’t buy them through the website, I got fitted by an audiologist who ordered them for me, so not sure how that works) The ER20-style plugs are okay too, but there’s a huge difference in audio quality, especially clarity for bass stuff.

@joergkutter

The guitar player is considering bringing in a keyboard player as well, but I already told him that I don’t think there is enough “room” for a keyboard, neither in his compositions, nor, in fact, in the sonic space. And there, I hadn’t even considered him already infringing on bass territory also

Yeah, some pianists/keyboardists have this strange idea in their heads that they’re allowed to use the bottom half of the keyboard when there’s a bass player in the room.

@joergkutter

It is a bit odd that the improved sound situation was only due to me fiddling with the EQs…

That doesn’t seem odd to me at all. EQ is powerful. I would try cranking the level control on the tweeter too, might help give you more clarity in the high end (which you could tame with the EQ to taste).

@eric.kiser

As for the equipment, regardless of all the watt and ohm talk, that is some really nice gear. New, that head and cabinet would have cost around $1,200 and under the vast majority of circumstances it should be plenty for a practice space or even a small venue. Just because you can add an additional cabinet for more watts/volume doesn’t mean you’ll want what you get.

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