mizmar
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I volenteer to help with a small festeval of world music here.
The organiser also gets occasional contacts from folks doing a tour, often with minimum kit above their instruments and clean underwear. These shows are small, low ticket sales etc. so costs have to be minimised for the musicians to see any cash. If sound equipment is required it's a substantial part of the costs; kit hire, delivery, and if a tec is required.... The local sound company are good chaps, but this is in the noise for them.
So, I was thinking of trying to define a basic, compact (I can pic up in a car) set of equipment; two powered speakers, mixer, mics, stands, cables, couple of monitors...
that we could either define with the company to rent or accumulate, which I could train myself (indeed, the company might help?) to setup and mix well enough for a small venue.
I'm tec savvy enough, and physics savvy; not a great pair of ears; but I can see doing front of house with a band member / tour manager... I'm reading lots and thinking of doing an online course just to get the basic ideas...
Is that silly? Just looking for a sanity check and if "not insane" kit suggestions, info source suggestions etc.
e.g. I was looking at basing this around something like the Behringer XR18 or Midas MR18 ... enough channels for a small group, and PC based mixing so everything can be on stage and front of house just depends on one ethernet cable or wifi - to simplify cabling.
thanks for any ideas.
The organiser also gets occasional contacts from folks doing a tour, often with minimum kit above their instruments and clean underwear. These shows are small, low ticket sales etc. so costs have to be minimised for the musicians to see any cash. If sound equipment is required it's a substantial part of the costs; kit hire, delivery, and if a tec is required.... The local sound company are good chaps, but this is in the noise for them.
So, I was thinking of trying to define a basic, compact (I can pic up in a car) set of equipment; two powered speakers, mixer, mics, stands, cables, couple of monitors...
that we could either define with the company to rent or accumulate, which I could train myself (indeed, the company might help?) to setup and mix well enough for a small venue.
I'm tec savvy enough, and physics savvy; not a great pair of ears; but I can see doing front of house with a band member / tour manager... I'm reading lots and thinking of doing an online course just to get the basic ideas...
Is that silly? Just looking for a sanity check and if "not insane" kit suggestions, info source suggestions etc.
e.g. I was looking at basing this around something like the Behringer XR18 or Midas MR18 ... enough channels for a small group, and PC based mixing so everything can be on stage and front of house just depends on one ethernet cable or wifi - to simplify cabling.
thanks for any ideas.
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