Worship Musician June 2019 - Jonathan Cain | Page 176

[David] It’s just on a riser, so we still use in ears. they’re on the back wall, they’re everywhere. of rehearsals, I was like, “I was listening to what
but for me, I’m old fashioned and I still love amp You can get your bass amp to sound good at you had recorded from our sound check, are
tone, but I love to use it in conjunction with my quieter volumes, because you want the tone of you just using the direct box?” And he was like,
direct box, so I have a pretty balanced signal. that speaker and the grit, which you can get “No, I’m using 50/50, this sounds awesome!”
Actually, Lauren and my front of house engineer without having it maxed out. I actually think it He would do a 50/50 direct box and amp,
Todd Wines, he’s so committed to working with can sound awful maxed out, it just gets too and it was because we were very intentional
the musicians on the stage. He said in so many muddy. about how to get these two things to sound
settings where the bass is using an amp and
good together. It’s possible, there have been
a direct box they never sound good together, I really try to work hard to get my direct box amps on stage for multiple decades, so there
and I think that is something that I have been signal and my bass amp signal to work well is definitely a time and a place for it. There are
very intentional about. I think if you are fortunate together. I want my bass amp to be feeding into still other gigs that I do where there is no amp
enough to use an amp on stage you should the tone that my direct box is not doing, and on stage and I work with that, I work within my
treat it as a gift and not a privilege. Don’t crank vice versa. If my direct box is bringing in clarity, parameters. I make my parameters the best
it up, don’t abuse the amp, because bass that mid-range brightness, I want my bass amp they can be.
frequencies go everywhere, so keep that in to be bringing in some of the lower thunderous mind. I’m sure there are many bass players tone that my direct box is not doing. When I am [WM] Thinking about the worship community
who don’t realize bass frequencies are not as sending both of those, I want Todd to be able sound technicians, the vast majority are not full-
directional as guitars are… they’re in the ceiling, to use that. We talked about it on the first day time professionals, they’re weekend warriors
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