Too wimpy?
Not to me, or any other savvy Muso who is even slightly clued up about modern PA gear.
I was over looked for a gig last week by a drummer who owns a reasonable little PA.
He is recovering from pneumonia, and didnt feel up to all the work involved in setting up his gear.
He also asked me how many channels my mixer has. I told him 16, to which he replied his band needs 18, and his mixer is some prehistoric 32 channel Yamaha thing.
I asked him what the stage layout was and he told me he "needs" 9 channels for his drum kit alone.
9 fuggin channels! In a room that holds 150 people max.
I tried to explain to him that having worked that small room several times before it's never been necessary to have more than a mic in the kick drum, and a cuppla overhead mics for everything else. Simply because snare, toms, and symbols are already WAY loud enough without mics.
But no, he is obviously some kind of rock god who believes so much in his own self importance that he simply must have concert hall drum mic'ing.
So getting back to the, "too wimpy looking" topic it is obvious there will be blindly stupid, and ignorant musos who in reality have less than zero understanding of what audio production is required.
I'm old and semi retired and don't need to take every gig that comes my way, which means I can pick and choose who to work for.
The clued up veteran Musos who are in touch with modern sound reinforcement save themselves sooo much $$ using small, lightweight, and extremely efficient live sound gear, such as mine.
The Neanderthals will never "get it" and can't look past gigantic concert W's, 45/60's, and ear smashing JBL horns.
