Greazygeo

Here's my humble offereings: I'm 40 and have been primarily a guitarist playing in bands for 26 years and am a partner in a small music store. We needed something compact, easy to set up /tear down with good sound for small / medium clubs. Wanting to have as much stuff prewired as possible a rack mounted mixer with all our FOH stuff in it seemed the way to go. We play rock and I do sound gigs once in awhile for other bands. Mixer:Mackie 1604VLZ. I got this used from a friend. It had the right amount of channels and features. Looking to upgrade it in the near future. PROS: Rackmountable, subgroups and easy to use. CONS: Periodically have to dissassemble the mixer and clean, tighten the ribbon connectors. The EQ isn't very useful and the mic pres don't have alot of headroom like they claim. Only two montior mixes. Crossover/FX stuff: Mostly budget stuff. DBX Driverack PA. It works for what we need (x-over, main eq, anti-feedback). CONS: wish it had a mono out SAMSON 4 channel comp/gate: Use it for drums and it works. Behringer Multicomp and Multigate: Used these before getting the Samson. The gate really isn't very good (audible clicking when opening/closing). The comp is ok, it works thats about it. Digitech TSR 24: Use it for vocal fx. We know how to use it and it does ok for what we need. Alesis Quadraverb: Use it for backing vocals mostly. Alesis Midiverb: Preset 05 for drums! Peavey Deltafex: For a basic fx unit, it does ok. Mains: 2 Yorkville EF500PB. Great cabs! Very smooth and clear sounding. would like to have another pair. CONS: They are heavy. SUBS: 2 Yorkville LS800PB. Great subs! We never run out of gas with these. We previously had a pair of JBL MP418SP then moved up to a pair PV SP218X's. It was always a fight for low end, now its never a problem! Monitors: 2 JBL MP412 for fronts and 1 JBL MP215 for drums. The 412's sound really good and go LOUD when needed. 1 CS800S power amp for monitors. One channel for MP412's and the other for the MP215. Ashley 31 band eq for MP412's 2 Peavey Feedback Ferrets: One for each monitor mix. They work great. That's what we run. I like the powered cabs, we get alot of output and clean sound for its size. We can set up the system in about 45 minutes, it fits in a van and I am happy. In rooms that are wider than long, it would be nice to have another set of tops. Probably going to get a MixWiz soon.

1 and 3 sound pretty much the same on these speakers with two being only slightly different....

Here's my Wizard.....my favorite amp too... It's kinda funny all the amps I now own are PTP....are there any "vintage" sounding amps that are PCB?