| If the venue is a large one, each instrument's sound must be mic'ed and amplified in its entirety to the audience.
In a smaller or even medium sized club, the instruments are quite audible from the stage. In this case, the amplified sound serves more as sound reinforcement. Drastic eq-ing is often employed to emphasize certain frequencies and attenuate problem frequencies. Some of these eq curves get pretty ugly.
In the first case, I bet you'll be all right. If the latter is the case, the sound coming off the board, even pre-fader, isn't really meant to document the performance and won't offer much of a recreation of the show.
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Christopher Wilson
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