Using monitor speakers as amp>

[fretness]

Is it better to use monitor speakers such as the laney cxp series as a guitar amp? Like it will reflect the real sound of the guitar and your pedals?

 

[l0u5y]

im havent tried it myself but based on what others said, it won't usually. It will sound way off than a guitar sound. Although playing music like guitar-based music sounds good on monitors but the problem is that, monitors are meant to play out equal volume throughout a big range of frequencies. Guitar speakers are special such that they are usually very pronounced in the mids. That this into context and you will realise that the sound of the guitar will sound very different from our conventional idea of a guitar sound that most people will not like.

Ive always wondered bout this question myself, and soon ill be conducting something like this, im gonna rewire some home stereo speakers into a guitar amp and see how it sounds.

 

[lester_music]

thats what amp modeller(simulator) are for....you can plug directly into monitor speaker......


that why sometimes amp modeller sound very compressed on guitar amps....cause they are already characterized to be use with a PA system or monitor speakers...

 

[widdly]

I used to use an old stereo amp and speaker for a guitar amp. It sounded much better when I removed the crossover and tweeter and wired the amps straight to the woofer.

 

[cloud]

thats what amp modeller(simulator) are for....you can plug directly into monitor speaker......


that why sometimes amp modeller sound very compressed on guitar amps....cause they are already characterized to be use with a PA system or monitor speakers...

+1. As far as possible, use a guitar amp though. Guitar amps(good ones) have a pretty significant effect on the tone. Thats one of the main reasons why most guitarists prefer to have a mic'ed up amp rather than to DI straight in.

 

[Jerseystar]

Depends on where on stage you're at, the sound changes. Sometimes if the stage is rather big, and you're at the front, what you're hearing coming out from the monitors sound nothing like the amp but that's all you got to go on. Which understandably sux sometimes but you can't always be near your amp all the time either because then if you can't hear the monitor you might not hear the rest of the band properly either.

So I suppose get a good basic sound through an amp but get used to playing through monitors even if it does sound different. Alternatively what I do most of the time is I use a gtr preamp and tell the engineers just DI my signal but I use an amp if any, as a 2nd monitor but the floor wedges as my main sound source.This way usually the sound from the amp sux but I rest assured that what the audience gets is my sound which I painstakingly preset.

Hope that helps