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Post by Rockerfeller on Aug 6, 2016 11:06:06 GMT -7
Heading out early for the second show with the Z-Lux head. It is an outdoor show on a bigger stage so I can really turn it up and see how it sounds.
Report to follow.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2016 14:03:05 GMT -7
I'll bet it was fun. The 40-watt setting has some serious punch.
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Post by Faze on Aug 7, 2016 16:57:08 GMT -7
I'll bet it was fun. The 40-watt setting has some serious punch. I been staying in the 40 watt setting with the boost on. It sounds big and fat and you can roll back for cleans.
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Post by Rockerfeller on Aug 8, 2016 6:17:49 GMT -7
I have nothing good to report back from the gig, but it is not the Z-lux's fault!
Every once in a while you play a gig where everything is wrong, and this was one of them. They put the band in it's own tent, and then put the crowd under a huge tent 40' away. Our stage sound was so bad, everything got trapped under that tent, and it was LOUD and muddy.
The amp sounded great out front, but on stage nothing sounded great. It was a wall of swirling drums, and bass tones. It was hard to decipher things. So, I am going to throw this gig out as it isn't fair to judge an amp with this type of show.
I can say, even with all this, I thought the amp sounded terrific.
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Post by benttop (Steve) on Aug 8, 2016 6:49:37 GMT -7
People do the strangest things with stages. I used to play one joint that had the stage across the corner of a room - had to put the drums back into that corner, and of course the intersecting walls just amplified them. Horrible stage sound no matter what we did.
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Post by premiumplus (Dave) on Aug 8, 2016 7:24:15 GMT -7
I have nothing good to report back from the gig, but it is not the Z-lux's fault! Every once in a while you play a gig where everything is wrong, and this was one of them. They put the band in it's own tent, and then put the crowd under a huge tent 40' away. Our stage sound was so bad, everything got trapped under that tent, and it was LOUD and muddy. The amp sounded great out front, but on stage nothing sounded great. It was a wall of swirling drums, and bass tones. It was hard to decipher things. So, I am going to throw this gig out as it isn't fair to judge an amp with this type of show. I can say, even with all this, I thought the amp sounded terrific. That's pretty much what happened last week with my Big Band. We had to set up under a pavilion with a vaulted ceiling and open walls, and the audience was in the park outside the pavilion. I had the Z-Lux tilted back on a 45 degree angle and it sounded fine as long as I was in front of it. Move ten feet in any direction and it was either twice as loud or you could barely hear it. Standing waves and cancellation/reinforcement. Ugh. I was going to compare the Z-Lux to my Maz 18NR on back to back outdoor gigs but the Z-Lux didn't have a chance under that pavilion. The Maz 18NR had a great gig two days earlier on a cement stage with half round band shell around us. That venue was made for sound, and the Maz sounded fantastic. It was tilted back too. Looking back, it was probably a mistake on my part to tilt the Z-Lux under a vaulted ceiling, but it always worked great before this last gig.
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