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Sigh. Would that more bands would use fake cabs and not try to drown out the world with real ones!

 

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If every semi-pro musician could get it into their heads that a pair of 4x12s and a Plexi with steam rising from the top in a 100 punter club is not the right answer, we'd all have a lot better sound.

 

In my band playing days, I used a variety of 10W - 15W combos and they were more than adequate with a mic in front, and I have (just once) enforced a tiny Marshall practice amp onto a pit guitarist for a musical. Yes, one of these:

 

http://www.antilogic.co.za/images/lifestyle/marshall-min-amp.jpg

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Metallica's working guitar cabs are in the dock, in flightcases full of acoustic treatment with a built in microphone. Putting lights in them is even better!

whens this from?

last metallica gig I did (death magnetic tour) whilst the real ones were under the stage the ones on stage sure as hell didnt feel fake and as it was in the round there were about 32 guitar cabs.

 

Iv worked with bands varying between using 16 marshall cabs on a 32 foot wide stage (and complaining it wasnt as much as they usually use) and taking a DI out from a rack of pre-amps, speaker emulators, fx etc. with a guitarist on in-ear.

Whilst I dont think alot of speaker/amp emulating gear is spot on I definitely prefer that end of things- but the happy medium should be guitarist gets the tone he likes at the level he can live with, any louder than that is just making our job harder unnecessarily.

As for looks, you go to a metal/hard rock gig - you dont expect the set you have at a pop gig, traditionally the cabs have always been there, and now whilst not needed replacing them with set would seem a bit weird for alot of bands... unless your going to go for the Rush way of doing things

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I do projects all the time with the real amps offstage and the musicians on Stereo ears. We just add amps onstage for visual effect. They are real amps though, with a jack connected (going nowhere) and the amp switched on.

 

I'm not sure what the scandal is though - its no different to any other kind of prop or visual effect.

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Metallica's working guitar cabs are in the dock, in flightcases full of acoustic treatment with a built in microphone. Putting lights in them is even better!

whens this from?

last metallica gig I did (death magnetic tour) whilst the real ones were under the stage the ones on stage sure as hell didnt feel fake and as it was in the round there were about 32 guitar cabs.

 

Big Mick - about 3, maybe 4 years ago - it's the tail end of a story he tells where a strange knocking thumping noise could be heard on one of the guitar channels and tracked it down to somebody sitting on the case, innocently tapping it with their feet.

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Big Mick - about 3, maybe 4 years ago - it's the tail end of a story he tells where a strange knocking thumping noise could be heard on one of the guitar channels and tracked it down to somebody sitting on the case, innocently tapping it with their feet.

 

In a similar vein, a band I know had a support slot on a tour. At one venue, it was decided that the best place to put the Leslie speaker for the headliner's Hammond was in their dressing room. The Hammond was only used occasionally, so every once in a while they would all jump out of their skins as the Leslie burst into life. It was rather loud in the confined space, apparently.

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