Re: Seeking to upgrade from a B rig to an A rig
With a $100K budget, you are only going to get a small venue vertical array. While that might keep some clients happier than a stacked rig and be a step up from your current rig, and in some indoor venues a big improvement if deployed right, such a rig isn't going to be adequate for a 2000+ rock venue of any sort. For the money, a rig like a Nexo Alpha will be able to cover more people with better sound than you can get out of the bottom tier vertical arrays. I think you need to define reasonably precisely what sort of gig you want to be able to cover with your new A-rig and purchase accordingly. Then, when and if the need arises for a big rig, sub in a bigger array.
See the main rig as one element that is often the easiest to sub, and keep focus on the other elements of the sound production, microphones, stage stuff, monitors, mixers and all the bits that make up a good set-up regardless of what is happening to the Main out after it leaves the FOH board. You can obviously spend a hundred grand easily without getting any Mains, Lights, Backline or Staging. Am I making any sense?
