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<blockquote data-quote="Shane Presley" data-source="post: 68557" data-attributes="member: 110"><p>Re: Reasonably Priced Large Format Line Arrays</p><p></p><p></p><p>Hey Brandon, I'm not aware of how your market operates, but a see a couple holes in your theory about having an "off brand" speaker... Here's how the hiring goes around here... Promoter x is hired to provide for fair / festival y. Promoter x knows that he is having national z and either knows he can't hire sound co a cause they only have line array b, not a.... Are you with me so far.. I know this doesn't make sense, but what I'm getting at is I get gigs at a b level cause I have a b level rig,(eaw kf730) the a sound co in town gets the a level stuff (Meyer milo, big xlc rig, cobra)... Say the fair books you year one and the national comes in blind(you don't advance the gear with them) and they show up and don't like the badge, you're not going to have a good day.... Its going to be beaten hard or blown up or youll be getting attitude all day. Or if you do advance the gear, it's going to be a hard sell on the phone to the road manager or BE. I did it for years with a yorkville tx-4 rig and it wasn't fun. If you are starting off now, please do yourself a favor and buy an accepted brand, even if you start with less boxes , instead of getting 8 a side of off brand cabinets that will be worth even less)when you have that garage sale. My two cents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shane Presley, post: 68557, member: 110"] Re: Reasonably Priced Large Format Line Arrays Hey Brandon, I'm not aware of how your market operates, but a see a couple holes in your theory about having an "off brand" speaker... Here's how the hiring goes around here... Promoter x is hired to provide for fair / festival y. Promoter x knows that he is having national z and either knows he can't hire sound co a cause they only have line array b, not a.... Are you with me so far.. I know this doesn't make sense, but what I'm getting at is I get gigs at a b level cause I have a b level rig,(eaw kf730) the a sound co in town gets the a level stuff (Meyer milo, big xlc rig, cobra)... Say the fair books you year one and the national comes in blind(you don't advance the gear with them) and they show up and don't like the badge, you're not going to have a good day.... Its going to be beaten hard or blown up or youll be getting attitude all day. Or if you do advance the gear, it's going to be a hard sell on the phone to the road manager or BE. I did it for years with a yorkville tx-4 rig and it wasn't fun. If you are starting off now, please do yourself a favor and buy an accepted brand, even if you start with less boxes , instead of getting 8 a side of off brand cabinets that will be worth even less)when you have that garage sale. My two cents. [/QUOTE]
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