Tiny home trailer audio setup

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Benjamin Hallquist

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If you haven't ever heard of tiny home trailers, here's one real quick.
Cypress

Im building a big version, 28 foot long by 8.6 feet tiny home trailer, I am setting it up to convert for a concert and festivals. Whats the best setup for this size, One of my buddies said two 15 inch alpine or JBL subs with 2 1500 watt amps, JBL or alpine speakers all around. So I asked around car audio forums and they said I need to go bigger, to pro audio. I need a full system, wiring amp, sub, speakers everything.
 
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Benjamin Hallquist said:
One of my buddies said two 15 inch alpine or JBL subs with 2 1500 watt amps, JBL or alpine speakers all around.
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That's a nice home theater system for inside the trailer, but if your intention is to provide a PA system for hundreds or thousands outdoors then you need a full professional PA system.
 
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Paul OBrien said:
That's a nice home theater system for inside the trailer, but if your intention is to provide a PA system for hundreds or thousands outdoors then you need a full professional PA system.
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haha thats exactly why I came here instead :) I've never setup a full professional PA system but we need one out here in Ecuador for some permaculture jungle festivals!
 
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Benjamin,

A proper outdoor concert PA will cost more than the any of the Cypress linked trailers, and will probably not fit inside. This is a cool project, for sure, but we should clarify expectations and definitions early. If you have not ever worked with a PA system as we here understand it you will find it is a completely different world.

Here is a link to a small PA that could do a few hundred outdoors that we keep around for occasions such as this:
http://bennettprescott.com/downloads/QD_Bar_Rig.xls
 
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You need to take the term "alpine" completely out of the discussion. You are not talking about a car stereo here.

What is your budget for this system? not counting the cost of the trailer.

FIRST you have to determine what your expectations are-How loud (and weighting) at what distance? And how wide does the coverage need to be?

Without that-there is not even a starting point.

There is A WHOLE LOT more to it than hooking up some speakers to some amps. Such as how are you going to get power to the amps?

DEFINING THE TARGET is very important. Without doing that-how will you be sure you will get what you want/need?
 
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Benjamin Hallquist said:
That's why I said I was coming here instead of car audio forums, need somethin stronger than all that. 1,500$ maybe 2,500$, kind of depends on how much it would be worth it. For about a thousand people. powered by generator/batteries. Thanks for any help!
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How loud are you hoping for? I have over $100,000 in audio alone and am just now to the point where I am comfortable doing 1000 people for some kinds of music. For heavy music, I still would need more gear than I have. I understand that Ecuador is different than the US, but that's the reality over here. Just the generator for a moderate system could be $25,000.
 
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Benjamin Hallquist said:
That's why I said I was coming here instead of car audio forums, need somethin stronger than all that. 1,500$ maybe 2,500$, kind of depends on how much it would be worth it. For about a thousand people. powered by generator/batteries. Thanks for any help!
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With this kind of budget you might do 150 people outdoors. And that's a stretch
 
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Kemper Watson said:
With this kind of budget you might do 150 people outdoors. And that's a stretch
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I know a guy around here who is complacent using what I think are JRX225s for 1000-2000 cap venues... they work for the 960 cap auditorium I met him in, but they didn't sound like they'd avoid (more) distortion for anything larger. Mind, you this was indoors, so that definitely made a difference, but he seemed convinced he could do 1000 people open air with them.

The moral of the story is that this kind of thinking is silly and you really need enough rig for the gig, which in Benjamin's case is going to cost more than $2500. The genset alone could cost that much.
 
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Max Warasila said:
I know a guy around here who is complacent using what I think are JRX225s for 1000-2000 cap venues... they work for the 960 cap auditorium I met him in, but they didn't sound like they'd avoid (more) distortion for anything larger. Mind, you this was indoors, so that definitely made a difference, but he seemed convinced he could do 1000 people open air with them.

The moral of the story is that this kind of thinking is silly and you really need enough rig for the gig, which in Benjamin's case is going to cost more than $2500. The genset alone could cost that much.
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It all comes down to what you call "covering x amount of people". Can they all hear-probably so. Are they getting the "experience" they want? Probably not. Experience costs more.

Without a "target" (SPL-distance-type of music-expectations etc) it is REAL hard to say what is needed.

And even when you narrow it down to say "hard rock". What does that mean? Doing a local garage band is a very different system than a national recording artist playing the same songs.

So even style often means very little.
 
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Benjamin Hallquist said:
1,500$ maybe 2,500$, kind of depends on how much it would be worth it. For about a thousand people.
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I have a small trailer stage that I use for community events. Usually hundreds, maybe a thousand people. I use a 1.4" horn, double 15", per side, with one Danley sub.
Works great for what I use it for. Most people here would consider it too small for most anything they do.
My 1.4" drivers will cost you more than $1500, with horns.
My drum monitor costs more than $1500.

Regards, Jack
 
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Jack Arnott said:
My drum monitor costs more than $1500.

Regards, Jack
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My standard drum monitor back in the 90s was a large cabinet. It was biamped via a Crown 2400 with 2x18" McCauley for lows and a JBL12" E120 passively crossed over to a JBL 2445 2" on a JBL 2380 horn.

It would get quite quite loud. I actually had a number of drummers say they would not sit in front of it :) But the rock guys LOVED it.

It had a nice "baseball bat in the kidneys" impact.
 
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Ivan Beaver said:
My standard drum monitor back in the 90s was a large cabinet. It was biamped via a Crown 2400 with 2x18" McCauley for lows and a JBL12" E120 passively crossed over to a JBL 2445 2" on a JBL 2380 horn.

It would get quite quite loud. I actually had a number of drummers say they would not sit in front of it :) But the rock guys LOVED it.

It had a nice "baseball bat in the kidneys" impact.
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Mine is quite small, to fit the stage.
Powered 15" coaxial.
 
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