the sound seemed off....but Axl was amazing. no comment on Robin, and ill leave it at that. man, i love robin, but this was an off night. bad notes on the intro to SCOM, nasty solo....im sorry...i love him, but he needs to EQ the guitar and cut the high end at around 5k-12k. way way way way way too tinny-sounding.
That technically is the sound guy.? If it is coming through the front of house that way, then its them.? It could be anything from the mic placement on the cab or the way they had it eq'd to cut to the back.? I don't know where you were sitting...But it could have easily been that you were just right in line with the highs because you were too close.
Plus I understand that the Continental arena is just absolutely horrible for sound to begin with.
true, robin could give him any sound, and he should be able to work with it...the sound guy looked terribly confused all night...i saw him shaking his head a bunch of times. i was standing right next to them. the one guy looked mystified. he definitely could have cut robin's highs.....but espeically when robin hits his WAH, it just gets too high.....some of it is robin's fault...he needs to work on his tone and on his accuracy, he hits many strings that should be muted...it turns into a percussive mess with crazy highs.....if i were his guitar tech, i would scoop some low mids, around 400-600....id scoop out like 8db. then id cut the highs from about 5k-20k....and cut those by like 5db all the way across to 20k. then robin needs to roll down his tone knob on the Les Paul to at most a 7....
this will strengthen his note, while cutting out some of the percussiveness of the PICK ....and will soften the sound by rolling off the high end.
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