Hello All,
I perform in a Celtic/Folk acoustic duo with my wife. Two vocals, cello, guitars, occasional Irish drum. We use a L1 model II with one B1 (occasionally two), which we feed using two T1s. One T1 is plugged into the analog input at the base, and the other uses the dedicated connection. Guitars (with piezo pickups), and vocals (1 Shure SM 58, 1 Shure SM58beta) tend to go directly into the board and use modest reverb settings. The cello uses a Realist bridge pickup, and is either direct as above, or goes through a line 6 M13 effects pedal for reverb, chorus, delay, and other nonsense. The current cello pickup is less than 3 months old.
We perform in a variety of venues from church services, senior facilities, pubs, cocktail hours, private parties, etc.
Lately, my wife has complained that my cello doesn't carry into the room as well as the rest of the instruments do, especially in loud rooms. When I play, the sound from the stage is full (sometimes TOO loud). I really can't tell how far the cello carries from my seat. I'm not happy with the sound. It's TOO bassy, sometimes brittle sounding. The line6 is meant to help smooth out the sound, but it doesn't seem to be working for that intent.
I admit to being relatively clueless to the settings on the T1. At the gig, in the heat of battle, I tend to make fairly broad sweeping adjustments to EQ, etc. to squash a particular problem. Rarely do these changes actually improve things.
Here is a list of questions/issues I'm hoping to have addressed.
1. Is there a good tonematch preset recommended for the cello? I've tried a few Bass Presets which boost the LF more than I like. I currently have it on a flat utility setting, I probably have some LF cuts, but that changes frequently depending on need.
2. Is there a way to get a high pass filter from any of the EQs? I get a fair bit of LF noise from fingers and the general resonance of the instrument that is really distracting. If I'm too close to the L1, it gets worse. It's not really feedback, but it might be.
3. I believe the channel gain is set correctly (green lights, rare blinks of red), but at certain point, no matter how far we turn the channel volume up, it doesn't change the perceived volume.
I think that's a start to my cello issues.
We've had the system for probably four years now, and love it. We've been able to push it well beyond its advertised abilities with great success. Within the last two weeks we purchased two compacts for smaller events and there is still a lot to learn to make them work the way we'd like. Perhaps those question are better left to another thread.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Dave
