my band has been together for 3 years, and I know we practice much louder than necessary, and I think it has to do with the way all of our instruments are arranged. It would sound good if we were on stage being miced, but in our cement floor garage- we have to crank our amps loudly to compete with the drums and to hear eachother.
We're a five piece rock band, with two guitars (lead and rhythym), bass, a drummer, and a frontman. Myself and the other guitarist have 4x12 slanted cabinets powered by heads, and our bassist has a 6x10 cab powered by a head.Our drummer has a 6 piece set with cymbals galore and our singer comes out of one PA speaker for the band to hear, and a monitor for himself.
Currently we're setup in a line really, with lead guitar on the far end, drums, bass cab, rhythym guitar, and the singers PA speaker behind it all. We all stand with our backs to our own cabinets.
What I'm wondering, is if theres some way to arrange our cabinets- drum set, so we can all hear eachother perfectly without cranking our amps to 11 (they really do go to 11!).
I'm thinking the "stage" setup is cool for gigs, but not for practicing.
anyway- I know this topic may seem weird, but before I go moving everything around, I want to know if you guys have any suggestions.
This is what its like now:
VOCAL SPEAKER
-----X-------
Lead Guitar | Drums | Bass | Rhythym |
-----X-------------X----------X-----------X
Singer's Monitor
-----X
All suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance!
