Tom Lauten
6 posts
Nov 02, 2014
4:27 AM
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Hello all
I play with a group at an informal jam session/gig once a week.
To say the place is cramped would be criminally understating it. The guitar guys and singer/s use a PA and my Honkin Toms 5 watt harmonica amp sits 5.5 feet in the air on top of that lot. I sit below that tower next to the side of the PA speaker.
I often can't hear what I'm doing over everyone else and the sounds of drum, cymbal etc shooting in from every direction. We have the overall mix ok but I'm in a subtle safe zone of volume vs feedback etc.
I was thinking that if I could get a single earbud feed off of the speaker of my amp perhaps I could better get a sense of what I was playing. I know there are a lot of fancy bits of kit for this but surely there must be a fairly DIY solution for a guy who isn't shy with a soldering iron and wire cutter.
The Rolls speaker tap looked good but it says minimum of a 10 watt amp.
There MUST be a simple, hard wired, low impact way to get a ear piece feed from the output of my amp to try. Any ideas?
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Tom "Bad Paw" Lauten
Loch Ness, Scotland
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Last Edited by Tom Lauten on Nov 02, 2014 4:28 AM
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dougharps
761 posts
Nov 02, 2014
7:07 AM
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The simple low tech solution is to put in some foam ear plugs. They will help protect your hearing and let you hear your harp through internal resonance.
I learned too late to protect my ears and lost some frequencies in one ear, I think due to crash cymbals in a rock cover band.
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Doug S.
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Thievin' Heathen
420 posts
Nov 02, 2014
10:51 AM
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+1 on Dougharps. That is really good advice.
It does not sound like you are in an environment conducive to the introduction of any more technology.
Internal resonance makes a very good monitor.
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Kingley
3756 posts
Nov 02, 2014
10:56 AM
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Try moving your amp to another position. That might help.
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Meaux Jeaux
13 posts
Nov 03, 2014
10:39 AM
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If it is a jam why not leave your amp at home and play thru the PA?
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Tom Lauten
7 posts
Nov 03, 2014
3:18 PM
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Hi all,
Thanks for the suggestions. I think the ear plug is a great idea, I'll have to give that one a go, might be that little edge I need.
Moving the amp is no possible in any real way, the space is sooooo cramped.
It is a jam session but it's in front of a pub audience so it's as much performance as anything...maybe jam isn't strictly right at all. Basically we perform but don't practice! Lol. I get precious little opportunity to use my rig some I'm ain't gonna miss this.
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Tom "Bad Paw" Lauten
Loch Ness, Scotland
www.buyandapply.com
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ted burke
2 posts
Nov 03, 2014
3:33 PM
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When I played clubs in the late eighties and nineties, I occasionally compensated for being overwhelmed by the other musicians by tearing the filters off my cigarettes and stuffing them into my ears. That worked to a degree, but foam ear plugs were much more comfortable and filtered static and excess noise better. I could hear my mistakes better than I ever could and make note of when I did something good.
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Ted Burke
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