Rancid Rumpboogie
Blues Mangler
Believe me, I have. I spent 10 years or so making my living playing on the bar circuit, seedy little bars to nice big clubs. I have been in places that sounded like an empty auditorium when empty and that were like playing into a mattress when filled with people. And literally everything in-between as the place filled up. Tweaking your sound/tone on the fly was absolutely essential. That's why to this day I will not own any gear that requires you to scroll in a menu to tweak it and consider such to be useless in the "real world". The speakers in my amps must be capable of really cutting through ... and also capable of "that nice warm tone". And the HD speakers in my Quilter amp/extension cab do exactly that very well.That's one reason I've always questions the usefulness of sound check. What sounds great in sound check will be vastly different when a crowd fills the room (or so I've been told, I personally haven't experienced a full room).
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