Why PAs Fall Over

[Happy Jack]

 

Edited August 19, 2018 by Happy Jack
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[deepbass5]

yah that sums it up

The amount of times we have had some drunken idiot fall into the band is unbelievable. The worst was a bare knuckle fight by an entire rugby team at an Irish wedding, shirts and morning suits ripped the lot.

tables and drinks flying one guy landed on my floor cans completely squashed it flat.

But I would still say that  Auld lang syne is the main culprit you then get at least three or four on top of you due to monitor placement

[joeystrange]

You don’t seem to much much luck keeping PA speakers upright!

[TheGreek]

It's times like this that lightweight gear isn't an asset.

[yorks5stringer]

Is that the new markaudio pa stacked 1X4 on top of 1X 4?

[EBS_freak]

Completely oblivious...

[yorks5stringer]

1 minute ago, EBS_freak said:

Completely oblivious...

No, that's Aztec Camera, they were singing Tom Jones....

[scalpy]

We don’t have this issue. We play to a more considerate clientele who weigh our subs down with alcohol based ballast, or clothing, or flowers, or candle wax or a first for tonight, bubble machine fluid. Still, the tops don’t go over. 

[TrevorR]

On the bright side, you had a really clear monitor feed for the second half of the song since they seemed to leave the array pointing away from the audience!

[Happy Jack]

The feedback was what caused us to pull the plug on any further encores.

 

[Happy Jack]

23 hours ago, yorks5stringer said:

Is that the new markaudio pa stacked 1X4 on top of 1X 4?

That's a Mark Audio AC2, with the linear array being two sets of 4 x 4" drivers.

The AC1 has a single set of 4 x 4".

[yorks5stringer]

Maybe you could do some songs by The Fall...?

[bazzbass]

get a decent PA stack, a kitten could knock that over