PA systems?

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Given your title and your musical style, I'm guessing you'll blow the thing up in no time. Bigger mains and more wattage will have to do. I know the price is cheap but death metal is hell on PA speakers. I would kick it up a notch or two in quality and I think you'll be happier.
 
ridgeback said:
Given your title and your musical style, I'm guessing you'll blow the thing up in no time. Bigger mains and more wattage will have to do. I know the price is cheap but death metal is hell on PA speakers. I would kick it up a notch or two in quality and I think you'll be happier.
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Any suggestions?
 
Carvin makes PA equipment, and bundles the component parts into packages at different price points. www.carvin.com Their web site and catalog can give you some ideas of the capabilities you gain as you move up in cost, such as more volume from speakers which can accept more power from bigger amplifiers, and more inputs in the event you add vocalists or decide in the future you'd like to run your instruments through the PA.
 
You might want to consider going to any large music store that handles sound reinforcement gear, that sells used stuff. For practice purposes, you could likely get by with the stuff you'd normally use for on-stage monitoring, and you could still use it for that when performing live.
 
No offence to you death metal heads but you guys seemed to need more volume then most music styles. It's kinda of funny I went to the local scene this past weekend and seen a blues/classic rock band they had 2 on a stick and 1 sub and their backline gear sounded great not to loud everything mixed and blended in great and was mix from the stage. I went to another establishment and seen a metal band they had 4 subs 4 tops and four wedges a sound guy 2 racks full of gear one for FOH the other rack for power amp had about the same amount of volume of the blues/classic rock band only difference I noticed was the the low end had more of a punch and their stage wash was a little bit louder. I ask the sound guy from the metal band how much we're they running he told me 4000 watts. When I ask the other band 1200 watt system go figure but anyway my point is seems if your doing metal your gonna have to cough up a lot more money to do any justice just my observation about sound system BTW were using a 2000 watt system 2 subs 2- 15" mid/highs and 4-12" wedges and we just classic rock, pop metal. For practice it's 200 watts pump through our wedges and just run vocals only.
 
save your ears--skip the PA.

instead get a mixer, a Behringer headphone amp and a bunch of Harvey's More-Me headphones.

then mic all of the amps and whatnot. if you get a mixer with enough sends, you can give everyone in the group their own headphone mix.

this will allow everyone to hear the vocals (and everything else) MUCH better. hearing better leads to better practice, better "singing" and a MUCH tighter band.

and provided y'all don't go all stupid with the volume to the cans, it'll save your ears too.


cheers,
wade
 
mrface2112 said:
save your ears--skip the PA.

instead get a mixer, a Behringer headphone amp and a bunch of Harvey's More-Me headphones.

then mic all of the amps and whatnot. if you get a mixer with enough sends, you can give everyone in the group their own headphone mix.

this will allow everyone to hear the vocals (and everything else) MUCH better. hearing better leads to better practice, better "singing" and a MUCH tighter band.

and provided y'all don't go all stupid with the volume to the cans, it'll save your ears too.


cheers,
wade
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Now that sounds very interesting!!!
 
mrface2112 said:
save your ears--skip the PA.

instead get a mixer, a Behringer headphone amp and a bunch of Harvey's More-Me headphones.

then mic all of the amps and whatnot. if you get a mixer with enough sends, you can give everyone in the group their own headphone mix.

this will allow everyone to hear the vocals (and everything else) MUCH better. hearing better leads to better practice, better "singing" and a MUCH tighter band.

and provided y'all don't go all stupid with the volume to the cans, it'll save your ears too.


cheers,
wade
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Good idea but I would go with the Furman HDS6 system and some Sennheiser HD280s. We use that system in a 6 piece band it's great.
 
HAHA. Sam Ash slyly switched the link I gave above to something else mickey-mouse. Try entering: Electro-Voice Pro Install PA Package 2 (EPACKAGE2) into the search bar and that's what I'm talking about.
 
a friend of mine has that.... and you get what you pay for.

to him, its awesome. to me, it blows in every way possible.

buy used gear, you can get some uber shit used for cheeeep if you look and haggle. www.craigslist.org check it out.
 
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