Fishman Loudbox Artist

[escampbell026]

Hey guys! I am a traveling singer-songwriter. I currently have a fishman loudbox. It has been wonderful for small, open floor plan type venues. I recently had to play for a larger event and ran a powered speaker out of the Direct Mix Out. It was sufficient but I would like to hear if any of you have Frankensteined anything together that is portable and does great dispersing quality sound. Can't afford the jbl eon or Bose systems yet.

[madhat]

Welcome escampbell!

Post this thread in the amplification section of the board- you may get a better response.

Cheers
madhat.

[Archtop Guy]

I've used the direct out to my Yamaha StagePas and it worked / sounded great.

Love my Fishman Artist BTW.

[fongie]

I was thinking about selling my SA220 and purchasing the Artist but decided against it, instead purchasing the Mini.

Wonderful amp the Artist, congrats mate.

[Kerbie]

Originally Posted by madhat

Post this thread in the amplification section of the board- you may get a better response.

Done. Welcome to the AGF, escampbell! Glad to have you.

[tgaume]

I use a Fishman Artist as my monitor and run the direct out to a pair of Alto Troupers. They're great speakers and I've yet to need anything bigger.

http://amzn.to/2sTvDz6

[rokdog49]

Originally Posted by tgaume

I use a Fishman Artist as my monitor and run the direct out to a pair of Alto Troupers. They're great speakers and I've yet to need anything bigger.

http://amzn.to/2sTvDz6

Yep! ...and if you like, add a sub-woofer and you got one heck of a system.

[noledog]

I have an Artist as my backup/home studio...as a full-time musician I carry with me and mainly use one or two Loudbox Performers linked up and/or an additional Presonus Air10...plenty of punch & power that I need since many of my shows are outside. This gives me a lot of versatility to the many different size & type venues I play at, plus easy to quickly dial in a nice sound.

An Artist with a pair of Air10's would be excellent, lite-weight and portable.

Best wishes,

eric

[SteveA]

I use the Artist performer on stage as a monitor. Run it direct out to my mixer from the Fishman which goes to my FOH mains and I also put it lightly through my onstage monitors. The Performer gives me a better sound than if I just plugged in directly.

Plus I have my Taylor 812 Ce 12 fret in input one connected to my Fishman Aura Channel 1 & my Breedlove American Ce 25 on Channel 2. Both are dialed in on the Fishman for Volume & EQ for each guitars tendencies and when I swap guitars the EQ is set up perfectly through my mixer.....

[MrErikJ]

This is a question I was going to bring up, actually. With an electric guitar amp, using the line-out tends to be less than optimal and it tends to sound harsh. I've used my Loudbox-Mini as a stage monitor that I line-out to the board but I wasn't able to truly tell how it sounded out in the house. Do acoustic amps work better as preamp/DIs than electric amps or is still better to run it into a outboard/preamp DI to feed the house?

[leew3]

Originally Posted by rokdog49

Yep! ...and if you like, add a sub-woofer and you got one heck of a system.

+1 for this arrangement-plenty of headroom and a great deal of potential for adjusting the parameters at the mains.

[martingitdave]

What is your budget?

[escampbell026]

Originally Posted by tgaume

I use a Fishman Artist as my monitor and run the direct out to a pair of Alto Troupers. They're great speakers and I've yet to need anything bigger.

http://amzn.to/2sTvDz6

Thank you! I will definitely look into these.

[escampbell026]

I found that my artist works wonderfully as a di. Just as good as the fishman di I already have. I am now using it as a monitor and a di into a rented eon one for my larger outdoor gigs.

[escampbell026]

Thank you. I may be purchasing one of these soon. They look perfect for the medium sized venues I will be playing this summer. Any sub advice?