Help Needed Asap Please!!!!

[michaelq]

hello. we have a show here in 4 days and i'm certainly an amatuer so even ideas help. i know this is recording stuff, but i actually need some live setup help. i am using a behringer ub1204 mixer ..link below

http://www.behringer.com/02_products/prodindex_ub.cfm?id=UB1204FX&lang=eng

...we have two pa speakers without the pa amp so i'm trying to amp it in some way using my mixer ..and since i dont think i can get enough power from my mixer alone (not sure though) i want to incorporate a "peavey tko 115 s" bass amp (we're not using for anything else) to try and get more power to the pa speakers...
the bass amp has one high and one low gain input, a chorus/effects path send, a chorus/effects patch return, a preamp out, a power amp in, and a phones jack... i have an array of male to male, female to female, male to female xlr stuff, and y cables...plus i could get more if anything is needed..like a phono from the mixer to 1/4 or xlr or something- i havent a clue what to do
all i could find for this amp was an ebay link...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2560034062&category=38076

i dont know where to begin hooking it up to...i dont know if this is even possible but if anyone could help me out thatd be great. thank you for your time.

 

[BillyFurnett]

Hey michael,

First of all, you're mixer is Not powered, so hooking it up to the PA cabs without an amp in between just won't work.

One option MIGHT be to just sing through the bass amp using an XLR to 1/4 adaptor (Depending on the type of mic you have and if you just need one mic) and hope for the best.

You really need to either get a powered mixer OR a power amp to use with your two PA cabs.

I guess you COULD run your mixer into the bass amp as a pre, but you honestly need to pool some quick cash and get the right tool for the job. Even $50 from each guy in the band will hook you up with something... OR maybe you could rent one for the show, or borrow one from another band.

IF the bass amp is truely doing nothing maybe you can do a trade or something, but try not to get burned.

Maybe someone else here will see a better alternative.

(You may want to post some info on the PA cabs (Speakers) you already have to perhaps help the next person that might have a better solution...Also a bit of info on what you need the PA to do, like just vocals? And if so how many mics? What kind of music are you doing and how loud do you expect to play? What size would you say the room is that the show is gonna take place in?)


Good Luck

 

[13th_Omen]

Michael,

Here we go:

The PA speakers need a power amp... bottom line. Your bass amp will serv very little purpose in this. I would say... go to your local GOOD music store, rent 2 power amps and two stage monitors. Make sure the amps have either 1/4 inputs or you get the right cables or adapters. Now hook it up:

Instruments into the mixer
Use Aux 1 send to go to you monitor power amp
From your monitor amp go to your monitors
From your mixer use the main outputs to plug into your PA amp
PA amp to PA speakers

It might help to use the bass amp as a drum monitor as well because it will have it's own independant volume and eq.