![]() Amplification must be professional touring quality equipment ie Crown Macro- Tech series, Lab Gruppen FP series, QSC power- light series, Camco, Crest 10001, 9001, 8001 etc. Center, Delay and In fills must be provided if the venue does not have adequate coverage in these areas. System must be at least stereo 3 way with enough power to run at an average of 115 db C weighted, undistorted, at mix position, for the duration of the show. Digital Yamaha M7CL, PM5D, Digi design SD 48, Soundcraft Vi6, etc. 8 VCA’s and Sub groups Preferred consoles Digidesign DShow Venue, Profile, Soundcraft, Yamaha ( excluding GA series), Allen + Heath. Sound Requirements Front of house Mixing Console, minimum 40 functional mono inputs, high pass filter, phase reverse, Phantom power, with 4 bands of parametric eq including Sweepable LF, High Pass Filters, and 12 aux sends. Stage should have adequate stairs on stage left side. Stage Stage should be a minimum of 20’ wide x 16’ deep x 3’ high. The piano needs to be tuned prior to sound check on the day of show. Purchaser shall provide a baby grand or grand piano for artist performance. If you have a nice monitor system with a spare drum-fill, that will give a keyboard good tone/level other wise Genz-Benz makes great amps for key's, I've used a nice Ampeg SVT combo bass amp for keys before, that worked out good to.Backline. ![]() I'm not an expert on Keys but I've been told buy some good players that Kurzweil makes the good stuff, Korg's name has come up a few times to, so has Roland. 50 watts for a guitar is plenty and 200 watts for a bass will do a good job, if you have a large room/stage or your outside just use your monitors to reinforce these amps (monitors with quality compression drivers will help a lot for that). But in all reality if your going to use this equipment regularly then you should spend the money for the good stuff as pro gear is going to be more consistent and is repair friendly. Names like Ampeg, Fender and Marshall are all good, even some of the lower priced gear is getting better. I've played guitar for a few decades as well, guitar back-line is a bit of the same, stay with the standard units with plenty of power. Also, the higher quality of studio production gear and quick/easy post-production by every DAW on the market has made it possible to get huge sounds from a 3 dollar trash-can in your office if needed. I think its because of the more standard use of in ear monitors and lower stage levels that the drum manufacturers have gone to smaller drum sizes to keep even the hardest hitting drummer at a lower level on stage. ![]() Some Jazz and some R&B music is fine with low-key drums but many forms of Rock music will fall short sound wise with the current tom tom size's. I've played many different kits over the years and the recent industry move to small tom-tom's has left a bad taste in my mouth. For cymbals Go for Zildjan or Sabian, one set of hats, one 16 or 18 crash and one 20-22 ride. ![]() As a drummer for a few decades now I can say that Ludwig and Sonar make the better sounding kits and I doubt if any one would give you any snarls over ether name if you stay with there standard models.
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