Others on here know far more about mixers than me, but Behringer seem well thought of-
as for foh speakers, I'd look at Barefaced (natch) and Crown amps - light & loud........
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Plug in away from the main hall - kitchen cooker outlets are great, usually 15a rating...........I stopped doing gigs at places that I couldn't get round these show killers many years before I retired.
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Copydex liberally applied to a patch layer of old net curtain - probably last forever - I did this on both sides of the cone on a 15" Tannoy & overdrove it for another five years...........
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Maybe I'm old (maybe?) but I'm not seeing much of a problem with that,
given a couple of minutes I could come up with stuff that made that look
positively Disneyesque..............
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Many years ago I dig a regular gig with half my amp stack on standby until I actually walked on to work - at that point the sound went from moderately loud to full chat.............my stage guy just threw the switches.........
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Then, of course, we can be mortally offended by Country Joe (Fixin' to die rag)
Bobby Darin (Mack the knife)
At this rate we'll be back to Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson strangling Sing little birdie......
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It's probably me, I caught Go West (which was ok)- liked the band, thought it was great that all those
pensioners could stand, let alone punch out a good toon......... but the rest was just 50 quid a pop..........
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^ ^ ^ I had a local lass who tried very hard to get me out retirement to play at her wedding - she assured me that 'everyone loves reggae' - I can just see a Middle England crowd getting down to I Roy..........
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Memories of Henley Regatta - load/unload over a 4 foot picket fence about 100 yards from the gig & get treated like a bloody serf most of the time - did it for years - don't miss it...................
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