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COMPLETE GIGGING PA NEEDED
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Having just taken over a music venue in Surrey.
I'm after a job lot of PA equipment that's reliable and capable of support multipiece bands, professional, signed and amateur musicians alike.
£1,000 budget.
I don't mind tatty aslong as it's not been botched repaired or ragged.
solid and reliable... so I don't look a tit when pro sound dudes come in for bands.
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Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
some amps. I got a pair of peavey amps in the 500w a side area for £30-40 each.
and good quality analogue desk can be had cheap.
on top of that at minimum a couple of old rack reverbs and eq units.
lastly add some stage monitors and if sound man be a distance away a snake.
over time i added a 2nd set of tops and a pair of bins again cheap off fb groups and gumtree.
How did it work? It cost under £1k, venue was a decent size (best croud we had was about 220 people. We had concert level sound and it didn't hurt the ears. Had a number of bands compliment the quality of sound over proper music venues.
We even put on the Slaves (usa) only scottish date which was in Dundee and even got compliments on our sound from them and they have played much much bigger pro venues. In fact the bass player said he thought best sound of tour. (we had two peavey hisys 2xt per side and a passive Mackie 1800s bass bin per side at that point. Trust me old heavy pa kit is cheap as bands don't want it now and it is perfect for venues where kit won't be moved.
put adds on Facebook groups and gumtree and speak to a lot of local sound men and sound companies as they may be able to pit you on to a venue closing or upgrading kit. Worth a shot to get a full setup.
down line you may want to add mics.... Samson q7 and cl05 work very well and will not embarrass you. Plus they are cheap.
john
However, when "pro sound dudes come in for bands" you will "look a tit".
R.
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
I'm on my third music venue and this place was an old-school Hobgoblin so it was known for gigs with a cobbled together kit. My first venue we had people like Onslaught, Ferocious Dog, three daft monkeys and Goldie Lookin' Chain use the kit we cobbled together then with compliments.. so it's quality over quantity
R.
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
failing that look in to the Behringer XR series mixers (ignore that they're Behringer, the XR series are much better than Mackie etc; they purchased Midas and TC electronic etc so making some great higher end gear now). You'll need a tablet to control it but you save a bit of money as no faders etc on the unit. It also gives the engineer freedom to walk around the room with their iPad/tablet and really hear what the audience are hearing.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/68526/full-band-great-quality-pa-system-1000-ono#latest