lukecarder

Wow!!! You guys are awesome! I have been VERY busy and not able to reply fast enough so give me a little time to respond to everyone. I will throw thisnout there...we have to run our own sound from stage at most of our club gigs. Can be tough. That is the main reason for me doing the vocal effects. Basically just consistency from me at all times with guitar and vocs. Give me some time and I will reply to each post as soon as I have the time. This foruk is GREAT and I will be a regular on here from now on. You guys are a tool that will coke in very handy for a noob like me.

Oh....I do not do an acoustic guitar. I do a hybrid acoustic electric. Have Epiphone Les Paul and 339 hybrids and a Michael Kelly hybrid. The acoustic is unbelievable on them but the sound completely changes when going direct to pa.

Well, I can't just ignore the vocals because I want to add effects and adjust them for individual songs ya know. Would be tough to work that out with a total stranger with 1000 people out there. I at least want to have the effect on my vocs and he can handle the rest. How can I check my output mode? I don't remember what I did when I ditched the amp and started going direct. Seems like I did something different but my memory is bad from all the surgeries I had during this transition. I have read on this forum that there is a way to adjust "bias" and keep the tone through the pa system. I am such a tone noob that none of it even makes sense.

I have had my HD500 for over a year but I have lost track of my goal in gaining the knowledge I need to put this great tool to proper use. There is so much more to it than I realized and I am such a rookie when it comes to using tools like this to improve my efficiency and effectiveness on stage. So I am begging for help from you HD500 pros. The scenario is as follows: Cover band...from rock to country to pop to hiphop. I am still learning "tone". I am very near crippled and to save myself from having to worry about lugging my Spider IV 150 on stage I play direct through the 500 to the board and us a ZT Lunchbox as my personal monitor. My tones sound great through the Spider IV but they change when played direct through the board and over the PA system. Seems way too trebly (if that is a word). I play hybrid guitars to keep from switching guitars between acoustic and electric songs. The acoustic songs are very trebly and seem to be the soundman's biggest nightmare. I sing mostly backups and I mimic a lot of different voices so I may sing LOW on one song and FALSETTO on the next. What I need is help with the direct out to the pa system. I don't even know what BIAS is or what do with it to keep the tones close to the way they sounded when I set them up on my amp. I need some effects on my vocals and help with how to use it on a different channel than guitar so our sound guy can control both guitar and vocs on seperate channels. I need a few shared settings with basically a universal "rock" rhythm distortion, an awesome lead distortion, a good crunch, clean and acoustic. I can duplicate the vocals with some reverb or whatever effect I need for each song on the mic after I get help with the main configuration of how to accomplish all this. Gonna be playing in from of over 1000 people at my company party and the sound guy will have his hands full with me since he is hired for this event and doesn't know the band and our sound guy can't be there. I want to control as much as I can so that all he has to do is control volume. Thank you for your time and I really do appreciate it.