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It's easy to forget when you're surrounded by great musicians that certain things shouldn't be taken for granted, and not everybody can jump on a function gig last minute and have it go well.
I guess I can only really offer the experience i've had in the area of function work. Up until the end of last year, I'd been with the same function band for nearly 12 years. We started on the regular pub covers circuit, and worked our way into the functions, weddings, and corporate stuff. However, we definitely hit a ceiling.
It definitely wasn't the quality of the musicians, we had some of the best musicians in the country (...and me), and we would each individually often dep with some of the bigger earning names quite regularly. But for some reason, our act seemed to be stuck at that ceiling and couldn't break through it.
Eventually we found that many (but admittedly not all) of the high paying gigs just go to the same act or agency every year, so unless they get let down last minute then breaking that cycle is a very difficult thing to do.
At least, that was my experience.
So the tone base is common,, not like a modeller with completely different sounds and EQ. It works for hundreds of tunes.
The same sound for every song. No variation at all. A sound that (to me anyway) felt appropriate for maybe 20-30% of their material at best.
The scenario from the OP is worse though, unless all the songs are very similar styles a single tone won't work for everything.
Like others above, I have clean, crunchy and overdriven sounds, with a Tube Screamer to add a bit of oomf for solos and a booster in the loop. Enough to suit different styles but keep an overall consistent sound. I think that's the way to go.
A metal grind for all songs is a weird choice. Good evening ladies and gentlemen our first song is ain't misbehaving...take it away Johnny...rarrgh clang whooo!!!
A fair few of you are saying, “I just use my volume control and tone knobs and switch between pickups and pedals”.
Doesn’t it change the balance if you adjust the volume or can you all rely on sound engineers out front to rebalance immediately? We just play in pubs, halls, parties etc. Sometimes I really want to adjust the volume on my guitar because I think the song merits it but I just don’t in case it sounds to loud or too quiet at the front?
Reverb and delay IMHO should be used with extreme moderation live regardless of your setup as it can easily wash out everything else.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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