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RoadRanger:
If you need loud and thumpy it gets expensive quick. IMO if you are going to be playing less than 20 gigs a year it's cheaper to hire sound. You don't want to be playing through some cheap stuff where you don't sound good and then have trouble getting gigs because of that do you? You have to include the transport in the cost - plus all the extra time and hassle it takes to unload it, set up, run it, tear it down and pack it back up - and that assumes you can leave it in a dedicated trailer or truck and don't need it to rehearse, otherwise you have to do all of that back at your rehearsal spot too :-\ .
Sting:
--- Quote from: RoadRanger on May 12, 2014, 07:45:22 PM ---If you need loud and thumpy it gets expensive quick. IMO if you are going to be playing less than 20 gigs a year it's cheaper to hire sound. You don't want to be playing through some cheap stuff where you don't sound good and then have trouble getting gigs because of that do you? You have to include the transport in the cost - plus all the extra time and hassle it takes to unload it, set up, run it, tear it down and pack it back up - and that assumes you can leave it in a dedicated trailer or truck and don't need it to rehearse, otherwise you have to do all of that back at your rehearsal spot too :-\ .
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Good points. We are right at 20 and a few are house sound. The trouble is we live in a small town and renting is expensive because of the transportation cost. The system we used before was a former members and it is 20 year old stuff and is sounds terrible. I am the sound man and all the equipment I have is the DL. The guy with the PA just left the band. :-/
RoadRanger:
--- Quote from: Sting on May 12, 2014, 10:11:51 PM ---The trouble is we live in a small town and renting is expensive because of the transportation cost.
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How expensive? I've no doubt that you need a system that's going to cost you $6k a year in depreciation, upgrades, maintenance, transportation and interest or lost income on your savings spent - and that doesn't include labor and someone to run it. If you can hire sound for $300 that's cheap. Around here that wouldn't be a problem at all...
WK154:
RR is the go to on the loud and thumpy stuff mine is more vocal. I'm currently engineering a sound system for the a Capella group. JBL CBT's no subs, nothing to cross over or control using a XAP800 mixer for KISS. All wireless Sennheiser and EV. QSC for power. Add it all up and it's $5k, still too expensive and I'm donating another $5k in TM. :)
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