I have soem questions. about how do they set up for a gig and what do you use to make mic volumes especially. I went to a gig yesterday and I saw 2 guitar amps, four speakers, one mixer, one mic for the singer, and three mics for the drums. How is it set up, and how do they make volume for the mics? Do they connect all the instruments to the mixer (amp of guitar, and the mics) than the mixer to the speakers. But there are four speakers. How does that work. What makes the volume of the mic, the mixer? I know the amp makes the sound of the guitar, but than what are the speakers used for. Is the mixer connected to the speaker, but there are four speakers. Does the mixer have four outputs so they can connect it to four speakers. In a concert do you connect the guitar amp to the mixer than the mixer to the speakers? The speaker is different from a guitar amp? The guitar amp has two parts the pre-amp and the power amp. I know the pre-amp amplifies the signal coming from the guitar, and the power amp is responsible for driving the pre-amp sound to the speakers of the amp. So my question is what is the difference between power amps and speakers than??!!? In a concert what do you use to amplify the mic signal, the mixer or speaker or both? Do you connect the mic to the mixer than to the speaker? Does the mixer amplify the mic sound?

Can you please answer my questions, I really need these answered and that is all I need to solve my problems. Thank you very much for your help.

i think the mic goes direct to the mixer along with the drum mics the instruments however play throught the effects and amps the want and then the amps have mics in front of them taking sound to the mixer so basically

singer mic - mixer - speakers
drum mic - mixer - speakers
guitars, basses, keyboards etc - users amp - mics - mixer speakers

i not sure but they probs all go through power amps after the mixer this is a setup i saw at a gig a while back

hope this helps

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are you the schizoid from guitar.com

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for a guitar, you have the guitar set up so the sound comes out of the front.
then you get your millions of microphones, and plug them into the mixer.
a guitar mic should be placed as close to the speakercab without touching the cloth, in the center of one speaker.

then all the drum/guitar/singer mics get put through the mixer, and then into the power-amp. from the poweramp, to the speakers. sometimes you get otherthings like crossovers. the poweramp is where you get the power from(duuhh).

if you didnt see a poweramp, they are usually a heavy large black thing that could be rackmounted.

note: how many people were there?
if it was a small venue, then likely enough, the power-amp was under the table, or stashed behind the amps, or whatever. hidden. you dont need to touch it unless something goes badly wrong.

im guessing that this was a smallish venue, if they only had three drum-mics.
because unless they had ones you didnt see, then you wouldnt be able to hear the drums properly. which means the guitarist was showing off. you do not need a microphone on a guitar amp unless its a huge venue. like 1000+
or he had a shitty amp.

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i do music technology in school and i have been told when putting mics in front of a cab dont put them straight on, place them in the centre but at a slight angle so it prevents distortion to the mixer.

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what?! ya'll have music technology in your school?! friggin A

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