Working it all in, under and EZ Up... Or not?

[Groove Doctor]

Wouldn't the trash bags muffle the movement of air the speakers are supposed to be doing?

Very slightly in highest treble freqs only - just turn treble up one notch.

Sound is a pressure wave that transmits thru thin loose plastic extremely well.

 

[4Mal]

Yep. I've done that wit the 2 mil bags and it works fine. I carry a roll in my kit and also a couple of old shower curtains folded up just in case. Mist - no big deal. Rain is another thing...

 

[trevcda]

Sorry for the loonnngggg post, but having been electrocuted multiple times at work ( ya I'm still here ) I just felt like throwing the info out there, maybe help someone to not become a statistic.

You've been shocked multiple times. You only get to get electrocuted once!

Lots of good information in that post, I'm just giving you a hard time! There should be a sticky on how to check your stage power. I had a very pissed off 01 and promoter because the 01 showed up 15 minutes before doors to ties us in and I wouldn't plug anything into until I had personally metered every drop and made him correct several faults, that might have been fine until they were needed for what ever reason. Playing in around with electricity and water, even with protection is tempting fate. Just don't. But if you must, take every precaution available to you.

Back to the original topic, check a few of these out. I used the 10x20 a couple of times last summer. I think it came with sides and is light enough to move after sunset if you want and cheap enough to replace easily. The white actually made a nice surface to bounce lighting off of as well. Invalid Link Removed

Oh, and plus whatever for trash bags on the mains. I keep several of the larger commercial bags in a rain kit with cheap (disposable) tarps and bungie cables.

 

[AMachine]

I work at one of the premier sound companies in New England and have completed gigs in every weather situation imaginable up here and what everyone is saying is sound advice. I usually have a 8 x 8 or 10 x 10 as you have pictured just for monitor world and FOH and a 15 x 15 or bigger for the band. If your speakers are not to big best thing to do is cover them with thin trash bags as others have mentioned. If you tape it weird you might have a flap of plastic that will make a distorted noise but just move the bag and like everyone said as well just turn up the treble it will have a hard time cutting through the plastic. Sometimes doing something like a symphony orchestra outside it is not such a a big deal losing a little treble.

 

[JoeWPgh]

I'm not sure if it's a help, but they make EZups similar to that, but are actually portable carports. These would have roughly the same depth, but almost twice the width.

 

[johnnyfever]

I bought a 10x15 in silver with all 4 sides(only use sides and back) off of ebay for 200. Its nice as the silver reflects the sun, and I mount fans in the top that the crowd cant see. Its wide enough that if it rains, just pull the mains inside and you still have plenty of room across the front. I play in a 7 pc band. Its tight but we have done it several times.

 

[Big Hoss]

Good inputs guys. I like the idea of a 10x20 canopy, but in all honesty, that is just a shave too wide for some of the places we play. A 10x15 would be much more fitting. We are for now, a simple trio, looking to become a 4pc band, which might be resolving itself soon.

I have had a gig since the last post on here, and we got rained on, the mains were simply pulled in under the EZ Up. It somewhat encorached on my space to play as I play stage left, so I had to be careful with the headstock around the main...

One issue that is cropping up, we are changing over from basic cheap work lights with color gels taped to them for stage lighting, to actual LED PAR cans, and the LEDs are a LOT brighter, and could use to be up higher to get a broader spread, and not blind us... Still trying to figure that out...

 

[modulusman]

In real band land you make the people hiring you supply coverings. If not they need to know that if it rains we are done and we get our money and leave. That being said we always have tarps and trash bags with us. I have had $25,000.00 worth of gear rained on several times before and the only casualty was a LED Par 64. If you let the stuff dry out before you use it a again you should be OK.

 

[Big Hoss]

In real band land you make the people hiring you supply coverings. If not they need to know that if it rains we are done and we get our money and leave. That being said we always have tarps and trash bags with us. I have had $25,000.00 worth of gear rained on several times before and the only casualty was a LED Par 64. If you let the stuff dry out before you use it a again you should be OK.

All I can say about that is you obviously work different types of gigs than I do. Although it is fair to negotiate a covered stage area. Perhaps other Houston / Galveston area guys can chime in. Mind you though, we play to a different crowd. I am not chasing down dive bar gigs, not interested at all. We are intentionally going after private parties. We are a small, simple trio, not any sort of big time hot shots. But it wouldn't hurt to negotiate provision for weather protection into the deal. Clean power is already part of the deal, weather / rain should be as well...