skipellis
Strummer
Posts: 30
My main instrument is: Acoustic Guitar
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Post by skipellis on May 19, 2019 13:31:59 GMT
We use a pair of Mackie Thump 12A's and a small 6 channel Yamaha board for our oldies duo using backing tracks and it works great! Yep you don't need to go mad. I'm currently running a monthly gig and for the most part we use a small Alesis mixer and some passive speakers (mom which I'n not sure about the brand). Normal I'd avoid the mixer as it only has a high and low eq and no mids. However, the bands are well calibrated and it is pretty easy to get a nice sound although from time to time I wish we had a little more power. By far the biggest problem with this gear is with the humans operate it. My fellow organisers — who likes doing the sound — has ears that are shot to pieces through years of abuse! he can't hear high frequencies at all and this combined with his sometimes love of weird reverb can lead to some interesting effects. Whenever we have somebody who needs decent sound I give him a break to go to the bar :-) We've got easy use of a bigger mixer with more FX and sends but rarely use it. The Mackies are 1300W each - more than we need, in most cases, although we do the occasional, more rambunctious tunes like "Pretty Woman" or "Sharp Dressed Man", or "Sweet Home Alabama". Most of our audiences are over 60 so we try to keep it calm. I use a single one of the cabinets for solo gigs but wish they had phantom power for a condenser.
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Post by andyhowell on May 20, 2019 8:41:00 GMT
The Mackies are 1300W each - more than we need, in most cases, although we do the occasional, more rambunctious tunes like "Pretty Woman" or "Sharp Dressed Man", or "Sweet Home Alabama". Most of our audiences are over 60 so we try to keep it calm. I use a single one of the cabinets for solo gigs but wish they had phantom power for a condenser. Phantom Power supplies are now pretty cheap — £15 to £20 and probably worth the investment.
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