L1® Unofficial Performers' Guide: Difference between revisions

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== Setting Up ==

If you are stepping onto the stage and someone has made all the connections for you skip down to the section about Performing.

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* Don’t play so loud. We’re so used to this artifact of the triple system (playing too loud) that we don’t think about it much. Your audience will appreciate it and so will you when your ears don’t ring. A nice benefit of playing softer is that you need less system gain. This results in less bass regeneration.

=== Multiple Performers Sharing One L1™ System ===

Electric guitarists used to play and sing through their amps, but this soon stopped when they started to concentrate on the tone of their guitars. Now, few musicians are willing to share their amps, based on the idea that any sound other than that of your instrument will somehow corrupt the tone. This is probably true for guitar amplifiers playing at heavy distortion levels (voice will be heavily modulated due to clipping). But it is not true of an L1™ speaker.

Sharing should be restricted to musicians located near each other on stage, for example, two background singers standing shoulder to shoulder, or a horn line.

Several instruments or instruments and voices can be amplified simultaneously with complete independence of tone and no corruption of any kind, other than having everything come from one source. Always try to take advantage of the ToneMatch™ preset feature. For instance, if you are doing a “single” and have a drum machine and/or sequencer driving a bunch of MIDI modules, use channels 1 and 2 for personal-preference preset settings, like your vocal microphone and, say, an acoustic guitar with a pickup. Then use an external mixer, which you probably have if this example describes your musical work, and put it into channel 3 or 4.

=== Connections General Examples ===

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 If you are stepping onto the stage and someone has made all the connections for you skip down to the section about Performing.
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 * Don’t play so loud. We’re so used to this artifact of the triple system (playing too loud) that we don’t think about it much. Your audience will appreciate it and so will you when your ears don’t ring. A nice benefit of playing softer is that you need less system gain. This results in  less bass regeneration.
+=== Multiple Performers Sharing One L1&trade; System ===
+Electric guitarists used to play and sing through their amps, but this soon stopped when they started to concentrate on the tone of their guitars.  Now, few musicians are willing to share their amps, based on the idea that any sound other than that of your instrument will somehow corrupt the tone.  This is probably true for guitar amplifiers playing at heavy distortion levels (voice will be heavily modulated due to clipping).  But it is not true of an L1™ speaker.
+Sharing should be restricted to musicians located near each other on stage, for example, two background singers standing shoulder to shoulder, or a horn line.
+Several instruments or instruments and voices can be amplified simultaneously with complete independence of tone and no corruption of any kind, other than having everything come from one source.  Always try to take advantage of the ToneMatch&trade; preset feature. For instance, if you are doing a “single” and have a drum machine and/or sequencer driving a bunch of MIDI modules, use channels 1 and 2 for personal-preference preset settings, like your vocal microphone and, say, an acoustic guitar with a pickup. Then use an external mixer, which you probably have if this example describes your musical work, and put it into channel 3 or 4.
 === Connections General Examples ===