photo: Makayla Symmonds
If it’s a bigger venue it’s not an issue, we put the and a half to where the amp is actually doing anymore, it’s all saved on a monitor file for our
amps way back behind the stage and I can turn something to where it sounds like a tube amp in-ears. The wedges that you saw probably
them up and nobody ever complains as long as but isn’t killing anybody. It’s finding that happy were for a little bit of kick drum so Chris could
they don’t walk back there during the concert medium using blankets or case lids. We use feel that at the front of the stage. He’s the only
(laughs). But if we’re in a church, or maybe in long XLR cables and boxes from a company one that has wedges and I think it’s just to feel
a smaller venue, sometimes there really isn’t called TA Link. Radial also makes that kind of a little kick or bass guitar or something.
any place for those amps to go and it can be box, so you can put your amps back in some hard to figure out. And it is tricky, sometimes hallway somewhere as long as you’ve got [WM] Are there any ‘game changing’ reasons
we’ll take a couple of case lids, or foam, or enough XLR cable length and that seems to you would want your amp on stage where the
a padded interior that will keep from having help. It’s not as fun as having the amps close guitar can hear it?
bright reflections coming back into the mics. by but it’s just part of the deal.
Something like a blanket or a packing blanket
[Daniel] Sonically I don’t think it’s going to
to put near the amps. I just do my best, and [WM] Do you ever run the guitar into a wedge help you any, the only reason I see any guys
if I have to turn them down a little bit, it’s not so the guitar can hear itself onstage? wanting their amp close by would be to get
my favorite thing, because like I said a minute
ago… I’m just trying to find the sweet spot.
the guitar to react with the amp to get the
[Daniel] No, unless it’s an all wedge situation, feedback or sustain kind of situation. We’re not
and we haven’t done that in years. It used to be ever in a situation where I could do that, and if
If I have to turn it down to like one and a half, at festivals that we’d have three minutes to get the amp was that close to get it to feedback I
it’s too quiet and almost not even worth using our act together, and as long as we had Chris’s would have to have it turned up pretty loud. I’ve
it. But, if I turn it up to three and it’s too loud, I vocal and the kick drum in the wedge we were spent so much of my life touring in a situation
have to find somewhere between two and two off to the races. That doesn’t really happen where I had to figure something else out. Where
May 2019
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