Re: Reasonably Priced Large Format Line Arrays
Brandon,
I was in your situation just last year, I even started a thread on here somewhere. Just like you I'm a "weekend warrior" with a full time, but my full time job allows me to play with all the big league toys without having to pay for it out of my pocket. I wanted to purchase a small to mid line array, something like KF730, VT4887A or even a 4888 rig. I don't need to meet riders but was looking at the angle of cross renting MY gear out to the soundco's in my area. There are many soundco's here with JBL VT's, but not many in my market (Portuguese bands and artists)
I would only need the rig for 1 confirmed show I do every year (outdoors with 2-2.5K ppl) with the possibility of landing bigger events with the "RIG". After crunching some numbers and taking into acct all the other expenses I decided not to get into that game.
Here where some of my reasons
1) Gear, transportation, storage and maintenance.
2) What if those bigger events don't come knocking?
3) If they didn't come, how would I be able to pay that gear off?
4) Would it make more sense to cross rent when needed?
A friend of mine actually has alot of the gear I was looking at buying, and even though we are technically competition to each other we help each other out when it comes to gear. I have landed 2 more bigger events where I need a line array bringing my grand total to 3 shows a year, but I'm still cross renting it from my friend as it still isn't feasible to own it myself.
You need to look at the pros/cons of owning the gear.
