rremando

Hey hope I'm in the right forum for this.

We're having some issues with our jam sessions. We started with two guitarist, slowly added vocalist and within a short time we've acquired a bassist and a percussionist. Which is causing issues because the sound is way off and none of us have dealt with this before. We basically are noise, barely hear the vocals and I think but I may be wrong, I think the pa is picking up to much hot frequencies. I'll give you a list of the gear we're using and tell you about the jam room.

The jam room is approx 23ft x 10ft. We built in a bass trap in one corner at the opposite side of the room. for sound proofing purposes, which helps a lot. We've hung carpet on two ends of the room, the 10ft wide walls.

The lead guitar just shrieks! I play rhythm and the leads just kill my ears. one problem might be EQ each guitar amp to work together better. I don't know. Then the drums come in, ****.

1 solid state amp -Rhythm guitar 1
1 tube amp -Lead guitar 2
1 bass amp -bass
acoustic drums -louddd drummer
powered speaker 550 watt and mixing board -only used for single mic at this time. Not mic'ing the instruments at all.

Like I said the drummer is loud, which is good and bad. Bad for the small room.

Our position in the room is like a stage setup (as much as can possibly be) cept the powered speaker. faces us and bass amp pointed sideways. We are playing (amps) towards the longer length of the room. Is this wrong should we be set up wide rather than facing the length of the room?

I've tried pulling the 5 band eq on the mixing board. Which helped allow higher gain and volume on the speaker. I know more power would help but I'm more worried about getting everything else to work together, the instruments. No more shrieking moise! Yes I've considered ear plugs but there seems to be the same problem in getting all the instruments configured to work better together.

Any advice is great advice. I appreciate the read