Hi Ben -

Thanks for chiming in. Actually, this was an outdoor gig. I would have been happy at 2...anything would have been better than .5!! I think the guy running sound wanted the sound to come purely through the PA.

He hung the mic so the chord was wrapped around the carry handle of my amp (a combo amp) putting the mic laying against the grill of my amp.

Should the mic have been on a stand and moved back a bit? Can't you attenuate the signal coming from the mic?

This was an ad-hoc setup since we were an opening act. Our stuff was run though a different mixer than the main act. Though there were monitors on stage, only the singer was going through the monitors. That was a different challenge - not hearing what I was playing clearly :-). I have dealt with that before and managed.

I need to sit down with somebody that has been in bands for years, buy them a few beers, and pick their brain for a couple of hours. Eventually we should have our own stuff and not have to rely on others.