When setting up our sound at our gig last week, the sound guy had me turn my amp down so low that on my "lead" channel I lost all of the dirt in my tone. He told me if I had it any louder, I might as well not even be miced. I don't even think my amp was at 1, so this made no sense to me. If I turned it up just a smidge, I would have had what I needed, but I was told it was too loud.

My amp is a 50W tube amp with a single 12" speaker. I had it setup so I had the tone I wanted at a low volume - at 1 perhaps. It's not like I was looking to drive the amp really hard to get my tone.

I see bands with 100W stacks on stage that are miced, so I can't imagine the issue is that my amp is too powerful.

How should I approach this in the future...this is completely new for me since I've always just played through my amp with it being miced into the PA.

Thanks!!!