Public Address System, small venues, live sound reinforcement.

[zxcvbs]

Hi im looking to buy a pa system, to do live sound, and play with a 4 piece rock band, on the street, small venues on restaurants, theaters (500-1000 people at max).

My idea is to use only pa for all, voices, di for the bass, pod for the guitars, and a little of drums in the mix.

I was thinking in something like: Cervin Wega, or other brand: 2x p1500x, 2x p1800x.

Will this work also, for hiring as live sound for small venues?

Do any of you, use this, have youtube videos?

Thanks.

 

[s0c9]

Go post this over in the lab lounge of prosound web forum -- you'll get plenty of advice.
Be prepared to have a budget in mind.. and no.. CV is not something you're likely to get approval for over there.
Good luck!

 

[4Mal]

500 to 1000 people. Outside. Hope you have 10 k or so and no, CW is not a brand that would be worth working with.

 

[lelandcrooks]

500-1000 outside requires a pretty substantial system. The 10k 4mal quoted above is about the minimum for an outside system. A smaller budget system is possible for inside. Cerwin Vega would not be my first choice, by any stretch.

 

[s0c9]

Alejo,
looks like you got some feedback on your prosound post..
those guys are helpful, but don't get mad at the usual set of replies.. they have gear snobs/bigots also.
As I mentioned above... tell 'em your budget and they'll go to work for you..
Keep in mind that you can uses the search feature, and they have probably answered similar question at least 100 times this year
Let us know how it goes :0)

 

[zxcvbs]

Excuse me, i was thinking of 500/1000 as a maximum of people, but generally 100/200 or less.
I looked at cw for the configuration they offer, i dont know how are named the speakers that are located in the air through a pole on the subwoofer center.
Do 2 subs, and 2 midrange speakers will work? or the ideal is real amps, pa only for voices? (aside from the monitoring part).
Does anyone here uses a pa with 15' or 18' subs, to get all the band without amps? will this sound too bad?
I would like to have a setup transportable, for playing in the street, small venues.

 

[lelandcrooks]

100-200 can be done for 5k or less, with careful shopping. As a commercial user, I'm pretty restricted in what I can say. Spend most of your money on speakers. Buy decent electronics, even if used, but the speakers are where the rubber hits the road. I'd be shopping for a good analog mixer, they're practically giving them away used as people switch to digital. Then buy a good dsp to pair with it.
You need tops and subwoofers, is the nomenclature. Easily transportable to me means avoiding 18's. 15" subs. But I hate 18's anyway.

 

[JMacBass65]

You need to sort out what you will be doing with this kit. 100 people, or 1000 people?

If you buy with 100/200 people in mind, and that's mostly what you will encounter, great. Just understand, you will have no business showing up with the same rig for a crowd larger than that.

 

[4Mal]

Buy high quality for 100-200 peeps. Call someone like me (Gorge Sound and Light) for larger. We aren't that terribly expensive and we will make you sound as good as we possibly can... Me being euphemistic... There's a ton of smll but serious sound companies around...

 

[hrodbert696]

Budget would be good to know. I'm thinking that you might think about buying a good PA for the 100-200 size venue and rent or hire a sound guy for the occasions when you're playing to 500-1000. Those aren't likely to be happening on a frequent enough basis to be worth investing in owning a PA that size, and any other time it would be collecting dust in the garage or blasting out way too loud (and way too heavy to be worth loading in) at smaller venues.