Looks like no Sub use at both of my weddings this weekend

Jeff Romard said:

Subs will help any music sound better and help the highs and mids carry further but far too often that is not how they are used

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That's where again it's about knowing what to use, when to use it and how to use it. Using subs at any event you do is not necessary. Some events you can get away with just 2 12"-15" speakers. My friend has several double 15's that he uses for certain events where they will work very well for a particular event.

Jeff Romard said:

Subs will help any music sound better and help the highs and mids carry further but far too often that is not how they are used

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Yea, I would prefer to use my Sub at my events, last Saturday I was not able to take down my subwoofer, for a Party of 300 Guests, I just used my two EV Tops...

simplyfrank said:

Yea, I would prefer to use my Sub at my events, last Saturday I was not able to take down my subwoofer, for a Party of 300 Guests, I just used my two EV Tops...

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Nice looking setup. How come you weren't able to use your sub?

DJ Ricky B said:

It's kind of a bummer though imo just because I feel like it takes some of the fun out of these receptions. Both of these weddings are over 130 guests.

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If dancing and 'thump' were a priority for the client they would not have booked this venue. We could also speculate further that had those things really mattered to them they may well have preferred a live band to a DJ.

I do a lot of events where there is no dance floor and dancing is not part of the agenda. Once I chose to make this a career rather than a sideline, I learned to look for all the applications to which I could apply my skills so that I could work a full week, rather than simply wait for a weekend "party,"

This is why I have no advertising. I don't need it. The people having the "party" see me constantly during the week at all other kinds of events. If we are doing the job for our own fun then we tend at best not to see the full scale of the available market and at worse, not to do the real business of making it a business.

Not every venue is going to tell the client all the things they will not allow. They just want the potential client to book their venue so they make the money instead of another venue getting paid. What should happen is the venue should layout all the things they will or won't allow at their event in their venue. Subs are not needed at all events a DJ is performing at.

Now if you work at an event in a venue and you feel you need to use subs and the venue says no, you then have a choice if you want to work at that venue doing another event there. A venue could have other restrictions that will limit how well your performance is. The venue has a right to do things the way they want to. It's their house. Just like if you own a house you get to make the rules for your house as you're the owner. Some venues have rules that are ridiculous and yet they have a right to do what Frank Sinatra said, I did it my way.

Proformance said:

Also, '"sub" with today's column speaker systems doesn't mean the same thing it did in decades past. These are bi-amp systems with each part optimized for it's own duty part. The bottom bin is providing more of the necessary spectrum than simply what we know as classic "sub-bass" frequencies. You're generally not going to find anyone using an Evolve system without the bins.

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You aren’t going to find anyone using an Evolve column speaker without the bins because you can’t. Same with the Bose pro16 and LD columns. It’s built in to the set up.
On the pro32, the sub is a separate unit, but there is no application I know of that you’d use without the sub. The sub1 or sub2 that you’d use with the pro32 could be used as a classic sub with other speakers.
With older bose L1’s, you are correct, they were bass bins and not true classic subs. Bose said NOT to use without at least 1 bin. You couldn’t use these bins on another system.