[simoncion]

My brain's probably just not working correctly today, but:

> Also, past a certain venue size, it's better to mike guitar amplifiers rather than make them louder or add more of them...

By "guitar amplifiers" do you mean "loudspeakers being fed the signal from a guitar and amp"? Also, I assume that miking the amps would let you feed that signal into your master sound system where you could mix it and distribute it across the venue's loudspeakers as required? (Whereas adding more amps would just mean more speakers on stage?)

[earlz]

uhh.. yes. You don't normally hook the guitar amp directly up to the loudspeakers of the venue because the speaker cabinet hooked to an amp imparts almost as much tone and color as the amp itself. (if you've ever used headphones hooked directly up to a guitar amp, it's quite painful and harsh because of this)