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I don't own a small PA (yet) and rely on what they have or what they can rent in for the gig. The typical "good enough" system is the basic small Mackie system; a mixer (not necessary for a laptop loopist rig, but you always get a mixer anyway when renting a PA), two mid/treble satellite speakers on a high stands (important to adjust them above people's heads to prevent the folks at the end of the saloon to hear less treble, due to other guy's heads masking) and one sub bass module. I've found such a typical rental Mackie system working well for guitar, stick, flute or sax material. The low bass is very important because I do a lot of sub bass "substitute stuff" (scripting up one octave, substituting a short slice of audio in the loop before finally transposing back into normal pitch and having the new slices play back way-below). I always keep a low cut filter at 40 Hz to not blow rented speakers and with that setup you achieve a massive low end even with just one Mackie sub. If I go pro in the future with live gigging I may look into a Bose, abused into stereo (as they actually are designed for mono) by two towers and one or two subs. Good thing with Bose is the extreme portability and good sound for every spot in the audience when playing gigs in small rooms (since they don't send much sound upwards or downwards to bounce back from the ceiling and floor and interfere with the direct sound). But you need a future income plan to pick up the Bose system, it's not a very economic one gig solution. Powered studio monitors have always failed me when I have been set up to perform on such a system. A PA seems better for live playing, even though studio monitors "look better sounding" by paper specification. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se www.perboysen.com www.looproom.com internet music hub On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Michael Peters <mp@mpeters.de> wrote: > just wondering what you use if you want to play in a club or gallery >which > doesn't have a PA and you have to bring your own, and you don't want to >use > guitar combos but something clean - the stuff that I do does come from >the > guitar but goes through laptop and plugins and has more the spectrum of > keyboard music, with possibly lots of dynamics and bass. A friend uses a > pair of Rokit studio monitors for his ambient music but another friend >said > these are not suitable for more dynamic music, and I should get a small >PA > instead. No idea what kind of product would be suitable but it should be > lightweight, small, and not terribly expensive. Ideas anyone? > > -Michael > >