This old equipment any good?

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My friend's dad donated some of his old equipment to us... is it any good?

Soundtech 306D powered mixer (it says 8 ohms on the two speaker connectors)

Fisher ST-830 speakers (two of them)
(15" woofers, 5" mids, 3" tweeters, 10-100 watt, 8 ohm)

Peavey Floor monitors with 112HS Enclosure (two of them)
(65 watts, 8 ohms)

Currently, we hooking up all 4 speakers (the two peavey's and the two Fisher's) to the powered mixer. It sounds decent enough by itself, but the setup lacks volume when the whole band plays... Plus we dont know how many watts the soundtech powered mixer is, so we may end up damaging our speakers, hehe, although they have held up fine for many hours of practice so far...

Anyone know if this is a good PA setup at all? Tried googling this stuff, but it seems to be too ancient to get any good info on any of this equipment.

So basically i just want to know if any of this is any good equipment wise for a PA that could be used for perhaps small gigs or band practice in a basement. It doesnt sound loud enough for band practice right now, but i was wondering if any of the equipment was salvagable...

Thanks!
 
I have used the Peavey Monitors that you have for years in some of the bands I play in. Just use these with the mixer, don't connect the Fisher's. Run just the vocals thru them and you should be fine. no matter what anyone says, ever piece of Peavey gear I have had has lasted and did the job. Good Luck
 
Smurf said:
I have used the Peavey Monitors that you have for years in some of the bands I play in. Just use these with the mixer, don't connect the Fisher's. Run just the vocals thru them and you should be fine. no matter what anyone says, ever piece of Peavey gear I have had has lasted and did the job. Good Luck
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are these monitors actually loud enough for you to hear well when you practice with the band? They don't seem to be very loud (only 65 watts!)
 
you might notice you'll get more volume if you disconnect the fishers like he mentioned
 
Are you daisy-chaining them? If so, then it's not getting enough power to each. I've used alot of Peavey stuff and it's honestly never failed me :)
 
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