Hey guys,
I recently bought a 500X and am running through this Alto powered cab. I realize the learning curve on this thing is crazy, and you damn near need a sound engineering degree to fully take advantage and understand how everything works. I am more of a turn knobs kind of guy and not a tweaker. However, if I got the amps and cabs I would want, they would have to throw in a new bed too, cuz I'd be kicked out of the house for sure! I can only afford this setup right now, and just need to spend some time to figure things out.
Here's the deal. I can play something through headphones and get it dialed in and sounding decent, then I get to band practice and it sounds like crap. I realize it may sound somewhat different, because the headphones are so near to the ears. Also, I played a gig the other night with a dual treadplate patch I downloaded from customtone. Through headphones it was sounding good to me. Not so good in the cab, and it was bassy as hell. Every time I would palm mute, the speaker looked like it wanted to jump right out of the cab. I also had downloaded a nice Acoustic simulator patch that sounded pretty decent in headphones. Didn't sound like an acoustic at all in the cab. More like just a standard clean channel on a Fender or something. Kind of almost rethinking my decision to go full-range, but so many people have had good luck. I'd like to eventually get a DT25, but don't want to spend that kind of money till I know the band is gonna get gigs to pay it off.
One thing with the Alto, there is no EQ built in. Just level for channel 1 and 2. I know everyone is gonna say to get a QSC K10 or a stagesource speaker. $$$ is the issue for me right now. Anyone have suggestions or feedback?
Should I have just gotten the Power Engine 60 so I don't have to screw around with cabinet/mic models? It's stuff like this that takes the fun out of playing for me. I barely have enough time to sit and learn songs that I need to learn, and to add all this tweaking and stuff in, that's a time killer.
I don't have the luxury of being able to play through my cab at home and audition different sounds, so that's why I figured full range would be a good way to go. Tweak patches through headphones, and they should be pretty similar sounds coming through my cab.
Any help would be appreciated!
-Jason
