Could this be an accoustic issue?

Don Hinkle · From: Springfield Illinois, USA

I played this particular room back in march and I had a terrible time getting a good tone.
Using Mullen SD10 - Peavey NV112 - Tone was just dead. Felt like sustain was gone. Tone was very brittle no matter what i did.

I just played there this past Friday night with the rig that I am very happy with (except for that night);Emmons LGIII, Black box, fender steel king.

It sounded the like the same barrel of poop that my rig did last march. Just as I remembered it. Dry - weak - no sustain..
The club has house sound set up with carpet on the stage and walls. They also have sound deadening materials everywhere on the stage. The sound engineer told me last march as well as Friday night that my steel sounded wonderful.

I also play 6 string guitar in the band and play a telecaster and a fender tube amp. I NEVER have trouble getting good tone .. and my tone was weak then too.
I wish that I would have measured the voltage in the room - but at this point, wondering if any of you guys have found rooms that were enhanced to make the sound better, actually suck up the sound and kill your sound?

We all know what hard boomy rooms do.. but this was ridiculous!
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Robert Murphy · From: West Virginia

I have heard of rooms where there is not enough voltage from the outlets to power everything on stage and that can cause lots of problems. Some hightech sound guys even measure the RMS to see if there is a problem.

David Beckner · From: Kentucky, USA

Don
I played at a place a few years ago that was very much like this..It was a hole in the wall that was pushed back and had a staging area.. carpet on the walls, padding and insulation everywhere..The sound on stage was sickening - sounded like everyone was in a tunnel - the drummer sounded like a tennis shoe in a clothes dryer - how ever the sound out in the audience was amzingly clear.
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Dave Grafe · From: Hudson River Valley NY

There is such a thing as TOO MUCH acoustic damping and it appears that you have found one such venue. As much as folks talk about eliminating reflected sound waves once they are all gone we realize how much they are a part of the sounds we enjoy. That's why recording studios have all that effects gear to put them back in!

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