I love the way my sax sounds with some hall effect in it, but some of the gigs I do are in small auditoriums where the natural volume of the sax is enough. How can I tone down my "natural presents" to allow my effects to be heard in these small areas without having to sacrifice tone quality by playing softly?
Electric sax and small auditoriums
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Check out this thread http://forum.saxontheweb.net/archive/index.php/t-14579.html for information on sound reflectors for saxophones. They're usually used as personal monitors. I do not have experience with them but wonder if they would reflect enough sound back at you to keep it from reaching the audience and, in essence, quiteting the acoustic sound going out to the audience.
To be honest, adding Hall effect, reverbs, or delays when you're in an auditorium that naturally reflects a lot of sound can muddy things up and have some negative effects on your overall sound. Be careful not to add too much.
That said, I like Hakukani's idea. It's best if you can have someone in the audience controlling the levels if possible.
To be honest, adding Hall effect, reverbs, or delays when you're in an auditorium that naturally reflects a lot of sound can muddy things up and have some negative effects on your overall sound. Be careful not to add too much.
That said, I like Hakukani's idea. It's best if you can have someone in the audience controlling the levels if possible.
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Thanks for the link, vermontsax. I'm always getting blasted by our singer and guitars/bass and the onstage monitors are almost always useless for me. For my buget, this may just be what the doctor ordered!! (Muscle memory only goes so far.)
Back-to-back AND hakukani and martysax's posts relate and make sense,
in a martysax sort of way. Is that a sign the End Is Near?
Lately I hear a lot of reverb naturally (the meds) but this sounds like fun.
I've never used an amp w/sax and coming from guitar I might not
have thought of doing reverb on '11.' Filed for future reference. Thanks.
in a martysax sort of way. Is that a sign the End Is Near?
Lately I hear a lot of reverb naturally (the meds) but this sounds like fun.
I've never used an amp w/sax and coming from guitar I might not
have thought of doing reverb on '11.' Filed for future reference. Thanks.
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There's always already room sound in whatever room you're in. I'm personally sick of soundmen who think they're Lee "Scratch" Perry who stick piles of reverb and delay on my (and that of performers at gigs i go to see) horns. Especially with acoustic jazz.
I went to see Sonny Rollins 2 fridays ago and there was tons of reverb on his horn. Despite the fact that they were playing in the theatre that the symphony plays in which has tons of good old fashioned natural room reverb.
I went to see Sonny Rollins 2 fridays ago and there was tons of reverb on his horn. Despite the fact that they were playing in the theatre that the symphony plays in which has tons of good old fashioned natural room reverb.
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