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<blockquote data-quote="Tim Weaver" data-source="post: 138008" data-attributes="member: 317">Re: Sound System Recommendations or SuggestionsIn other words, this is a rabbit hole you don&#039;t want to go down, but you won&#039;t realize it until you are 40 grand into buying a &quot;small&quot; and &quot;basic&quot; system that will be good for the events you do there. Then after you have bought this system you wonder where all your power, XLR, and microphones went. Well, they walked out the door in the pocket of those local bands. Then you get tired of babysitting this thing and hire a local &quot;soundguy&quot; to come in and run the system for events. About this time is when the first piece of gear fails. You call your &quot;soundguy&quot; to come in and repair or replace whatever is busted. The whole time he is telling you, &quot;you know this system doesn&#039;t really work well for this room. You should sell it and buy this other system that my buddy has for sale. It was used by Ted Nugent just the other day and it RAWKED!&quot;And you are thinking that I&#039;m just being a Debby Downer here, but honestly I&#039;ve seen this scenario play out dozens of times.... Just keep renting. Find a vendor that you like and does a great job. Make sure they get every bit of work that comes through your venue and charge it back to the clients. Everybody wins this way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tim Weaver, post: 138008, member: 317"] Re: Sound System Recommendations or Suggestions In other words, this is a rabbit hole you don't want to go down, but you won't realize it until you are 40 grand into buying a "small" and "basic" system that will be good for the events you do there. Then after you have bought this system you wonder where all your power, XLR, and microphones went. Well, they walked out the door in the pocket of those local bands. Then you get tired of babysitting this thing and hire a local "soundguy" to come in and run the system for events. About this time is when the first piece of gear fails. You call your "soundguy" to come in and repair or replace whatever is busted. The whole time he is telling you, "you know this system doesn't really work well for this room. You should sell it and buy this other system that my buddy has for sale. It was used by Ted Nugent just the other day and it RAWKED!" And you are thinking that I'm just being a Debby Downer here, but honestly I've seen this scenario play out dozens of times.... Just keep renting. Find a vendor that you like and does a great job. Make sure they get every bit of work that comes through your venue and charge it back to the clients. Everybody wins this way. [/QUOTE]

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