Clubs and PA's in your town

[nsmar4211]

Treasure Coast area of Florida....... what's a club PA? Never played a place with one The bars here don't have em. The dedicated music bar was a percentage of door place and we would rather know how much we're making. There is one nightclub in town that I don't know if they have their own...... never been in there. So.....I can safely say 90% don't .

[anderbass]

Originally Posted by IndyBass

In my area, the original clubs have their own PA installed, while the cover bars generally do not.

+1... That's pretty common around the Phoenix/Tempe area scene too.

[kalle74]

In Helsinki, Finland, it varies.

The smallest dives have anything from beat-up JBL PA and even more beat-up Yamaha desks to Wharfedale PA (it´s not really a PA) and Yamaha digital desks.

Medium-sized clubs are mostly equipped with a newer and better PA (say, JBL, EAW, Nexo etc.) and usually a Midas Venice desk with complementary outboard.

The big ones (like Tavastia and Nosturi) are actually very well equipped.

Tavastia, my favorite (as I do sound for a living) has dual large-scale Midas desks on both FOH(Heritage 2500) and MON(can´t remember the model, as I mostly do FOH), most of the outboard you could wish for and massive EV line-array system. And the acoustics of the venue really couldn´t be much better.

Nosturi has a dbAudiotechnik PA and Midas FOH desk (Heritage, also) and a Yamaha M7CL MON desk.

nearly all of them (in any category) fit the full-range criteria, and are designed for a full band mix.

The in-house sound guys are mostly professional and konow their s**t, with an occasional individual wrestling with attitude-problems. Most established bands have their own engineers, though...

I guess we´re a bit spoiled.

[Mutant Corn]

Heber Springs, AR (No, you haven't heard of it)

Around here(here being a 50-mile radius or so), most anywhere worth playing has a PA, but in smaller towns not a lot of them know what they're doing. My brother's band played one where the sound guy mid-scooped.

My band plays in churches mostly...they usually have PA systems but they're not necessarily set up for shows...my church has a Mackie 18-channel mixer, Bose 802 SIII speakers, and 2000W of Crown power...it's pretty typical of a church that size.

We've found ourselves in some tight spots before(middle of a high school gym), and for those we have this

[varunkapahi]

here in New Delhi, India ALL the venues i have seen and played supply us the house systems. i dunno if the pub owns the PA, its likely they (organizers) rent it along with the sound guy. the systems are usually good but the sound guy and his mixing senses are always questionable. since here the fashion is that at every gig a couple of bands or even more play on a gig night so we never had to even think about the PA
so i guess i am pretty lucky on this part considering that this is not a place where western music IS the popular music anyway

[rzpooch]

Some of the larger clubs have nice sound systems. Most of the smaller ones have a couple of lights that don't work...LOL We play mostly south of Seattle, so I'ld say most gigs we have to run our own sound. On a side note, we are playing at Jazzbones in Tacoma on Friday night, I'm stoked!!!!

[mattvon]

In Minneapolis/St. Paul virtually every bar or club has it's own PA...typically ranging from outstanding (Triple Rock, Station 4, etc) to mostly passable (Hexagon Bar, Big V's)...the average live music "rock" club has a couple of flown full-range packs and a sub or two. Monitoring is totally hit or miss...

I've never been asked to pay the person mixing the band, but have tipped them on numerous occasions.

I also run a venue in a town about an hour south of Minneapolis, and we provide PA/soundguy at no charge to the band.