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25-09-2006, 03:15 PM
Ok i've been given a disco for a cricket club holding an end of season awards presentation. Its being held in a hotel/pub in Northampton.
Went there today to check out venue , can use smoke etc when I was told by the staff that they want me to use their equpment for the gig.
Ok i thought ill check out what they got. Bear in mind this room is no bigger than the lounge in a local pub.
They had 4 18" driver subs 4 Boss pa horns. They used numark cdn35 decks (the old type and I do mean old) but the mixer was shot so they fixed in a maplin prosound mixer in its place. They were playing backgorund music when I went in (no one there and the background was at about 116db)
Basically dont want to diss there stuff but the sound was awful, the equipment in bad repair, a very heavily used DJ booth which hides me away from the people at the gig. Most of their in house lighting was resting on the dj booth or on the speaker cabs (no poles just sitting on floor in a big pile of all 4 cabs)
I spend a lot of time making sure my equipment looks and sounds nice, and I do not really want to use their equipment because I think if I do the customer will be disapointed. But on the plus side all I need to take is my CD's if I use their system.
Any advice, what would you do. Their sound system sounds like its muffled by carpet but really loud. Mine is peavey full range cabs with 97db effiency clear as a bell with cdn 88's and a numark rack mixer. With EQ's and high and low pass filter. I have full goalpost system with matched lighting they have some lighting on a speaker?
Help what should I do go for path of least resistance, or go for my prefered option of taking all my gear and trying to fit it around theirs?
Went there today to check out venue , can use smoke etc when I was told by the staff that they want me to use their equpment for the gig.
Ok i thought ill check out what they got. Bear in mind this room is no bigger than the lounge in a local pub.
They had 4 18" driver subs 4 Boss pa horns. They used numark cdn35 decks (the old type and I do mean old) but the mixer was shot so they fixed in a maplin prosound mixer in its place. They were playing backgorund music when I went in (no one there and the background was at about 116db)
Basically dont want to diss there stuff but the sound was awful, the equipment in bad repair, a very heavily used DJ booth which hides me away from the people at the gig. Most of their in house lighting was resting on the dj booth or on the speaker cabs (no poles just sitting on floor in a big pile of all 4 cabs)
I spend a lot of time making sure my equipment looks and sounds nice, and I do not really want to use their equipment because I think if I do the customer will be disapointed. But on the plus side all I need to take is my CD's if I use their system.
Any advice, what would you do. Their sound system sounds like its muffled by carpet but really loud. Mine is peavey full range cabs with 97db effiency clear as a bell with cdn 88's and a numark rack mixer. With EQ's and high and low pass filter. I have full goalpost system with matched lighting they have some lighting on a speaker?
Help what should I do go for path of least resistance, or go for my prefered option of taking all my gear and trying to fit it around theirs?