HoboKen
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Your Only As Good As They Hear You!
Well! You know your good.....maybe not great, but good......You have your "most bestest" Guild Guitar.....your sitting on a stage stool or standing to deliver......you pour your soul into that cover song or an original song and afterwards you await the acknowledgement from the crowd that you "done good." If it comes its because what you played and sang reached each individual's ears that clapped for you, the way you intended it to.
Truer words were never spoken:
1. Your public address (P.A.) system is only as good as its weakest link.
2. You get what you pay for if you are careful when it comes to live sound amplification electronics.
3. If you buy cheap, you will buy twice and it will cost you more in the long run than if you bought quality in the first place.
First you have to ask yourself why it is that most professional performers insist on riders (in writing) as part of a performance contract as to the live stage sound equipment they will use when they come to your town to give a concert. It's because they want to be assured that there will be a minimum quality of the sound equipment provided when they go to walk out on stage. You need to think in the same way if you perform. Many professional contract riders read "No Mackies or less in quality."
Cheap or inexpensive electronic sound equipment will "Hummm" and will color your sound in ways you do not want. That may be acceptable at first, but as you perform more and more, your ear will tell you that your abilities now exceed that of the sound equipment's to get your abilities to reach your listeners ears.
Ask yourself, "Would I be doing this gig with an old plywood Stella or Silvertone guitar? If the answer is "NO!" then why settle for less in the equipment you use to deliver that sound to those who will hear you?
Quality and durability......it takes money to get both.
I've been the one who bought once and then had to sell what I bought to be able to move up to the better quality once my ears starting to talk to me about my choices that were not as Sound" as I first thought.
Coffee House to medium sized venues:
Crest XR-20 Board in a SKB pop-up travel case.
Ashly manual EQs.
dbx Gates and Compressors
Mackie SRM 450 Active (studio monitor quality) Main Speakers
(on a stick) (Note, the newer Active Mackies are not as good as the originals)
RCF Sub-Woofer (RCF makes the Mackie active speakers in Italy)
(Check out the newer QSC Active Speakers!)
JBL Eon 10G floor monitors
Sennheiser 835, Shure M-58, M-57 or 81 mics.
Whirlwind Snake and Cables
(Just starting out? Find a used Fender Passport 250 Plus System and go have fun until your ears start to teach you what you don't want to hear. But, what you will hear as time goes by.....ear knowledge costs you money.....just like the difference between a Stella or Silvertone and a Guild will)
For Large Venues:
Midas 32 Channel Main Board
Crest XR-20 (2) Monitor World Boards
Ashly Protia EQs\dbx Gates and Compressors
Very Large JBL or Electro-Voice (EV) Passive Speakers -
Mains and Monitors
QSC Pro Amps.
Same mics as above
Large multi-channel Whirlwind Snake and Cables...and Direct Boxes
HoboKen
Well! You know your good.....maybe not great, but good......You have your "most bestest" Guild Guitar.....your sitting on a stage stool or standing to deliver......you pour your soul into that cover song or an original song and afterwards you await the acknowledgement from the crowd that you "done good." If it comes its because what you played and sang reached each individual's ears that clapped for you, the way you intended it to.
Truer words were never spoken:
1. Your public address (P.A.) system is only as good as its weakest link.
2. You get what you pay for if you are careful when it comes to live sound amplification electronics.
3. If you buy cheap, you will buy twice and it will cost you more in the long run than if you bought quality in the first place.
First you have to ask yourself why it is that most professional performers insist on riders (in writing) as part of a performance contract as to the live stage sound equipment they will use when they come to your town to give a concert. It's because they want to be assured that there will be a minimum quality of the sound equipment provided when they go to walk out on stage. You need to think in the same way if you perform. Many professional contract riders read "No Mackies or less in quality."
Cheap or inexpensive electronic sound equipment will "Hummm" and will color your sound in ways you do not want. That may be acceptable at first, but as you perform more and more, your ear will tell you that your abilities now exceed that of the sound equipment's to get your abilities to reach your listeners ears.
Ask yourself, "Would I be doing this gig with an old plywood Stella or Silvertone guitar? If the answer is "NO!" then why settle for less in the equipment you use to deliver that sound to those who will hear you?
Quality and durability......it takes money to get both.
I've been the one who bought once and then had to sell what I bought to be able to move up to the better quality once my ears starting to talk to me about my choices that were not as Sound" as I first thought.
Coffee House to medium sized venues:
Crest XR-20 Board in a SKB pop-up travel case.
Ashly manual EQs.
dbx Gates and Compressors
Mackie SRM 450 Active (studio monitor quality) Main Speakers
(on a stick) (Note, the newer Active Mackies are not as good as the originals)
RCF Sub-Woofer (RCF makes the Mackie active speakers in Italy)
(Check out the newer QSC Active Speakers!)
JBL Eon 10G floor monitors
Sennheiser 835, Shure M-58, M-57 or 81 mics.
Whirlwind Snake and Cables
(Just starting out? Find a used Fender Passport 250 Plus System and go have fun until your ears start to teach you what you don't want to hear. But, what you will hear as time goes by.....ear knowledge costs you money.....just like the difference between a Stella or Silvertone and a Guild will)
For Large Venues:
Midas 32 Channel Main Board
Crest XR-20 (2) Monitor World Boards
Ashly Protia EQs\dbx Gates and Compressors
Very Large JBL or Electro-Voice (EV) Passive Speakers -
Mains and Monitors
QSC Pro Amps.
Same mics as above
Large multi-channel Whirlwind Snake and Cables...and Direct Boxes
HoboKen