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RE: portable PA for electronic looper
Michael,
I have used a pair of Mackie SRM150s alone for small art gallery or
living room gigs with no problem at all.
In situations where a full-size PA would've been total overkill they
perform just fine - and they really weren't particularly made for it.
True, they won't give you that huge, butt-shaking, "tectonic" low end.
But they are plenty loud in a small(ish) venue.
Think of them as 150 watt mini Mackies with high-quality 5.5" speakers
housed in something the size of a lunchbox and that fits atop a mic
stand (if you want to put them up where people can hear 'em).
I must mention one caveat though, as long as you are getting your tonal
"warmth" via other means (plug-ins or hardware devices) you are okay,
but I did find these things slightly cold (too clean and flat) for
straight, plug 'n' play guitar amplification.
Also, brand new they are too expensive (to my thinking) but I picked
both of mine up used (but mint) on Ebay for about half of what they go
for new.
I asked around for all sorts of advice before I bought them and a number
of people tried to talk me out of spending my money on them.
However, they've worked out quite well (I think).
If I had to do it again, I'd buy 'em all over again.
A big plus is onboard EQ and 3-channel mixing too.
Cheers,
Ted
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Michael Peters 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. l