Good Evening,
My name is Aaron and I am new to this forum.
I was doing some rehesearch earlier today (online) to find a pair of speakers to replace my Mackie 450s.
First of all, let me thank you for taking the time to read this.
I spent about 3 hours reading posts on this forum and am amazed at how many brilliant people are willing to help others out in this great profession.
On to my setup...
I primarily DJ weddings and corporate parties so the new speakers will be for that purpose.
for years, I've used a pair of Mackie 450s for just about anything under 350 people and if the attendance was larger or if I was in a fur-lined kleenex box, i'll run a quad of 450s and the sub.
I run a MacBookPro into an Apogee Duet as my primary media, with a pair of ipods as backups, and I have my complete library on Minidisks.
My workstation (cube) consisits of a 10space unit which houses my Furman conditioner, a cortex 1 space mixer, 1 space lighting/fog/strobe controller, 1 space wireless mic, 1 space Sony Minidisk, and a 2 space DBX eq.
I recently bought a Crown 802 which is a great amp, but when I put that into my cube, the bitch is just too heavy for me. I thought about removing the DBX eq, which i hardly use, but i'm sure that the first gig i do without it, i'm going to be chasing down a frequency that my mixer won't let me dial in.
Anyway, when I bought the crown amp, i thought about going to a passive system and borrowed a pair of the Guitar Center Harbinger 2way with a 15 and a horn... while I wasn't terribly impressed with the cabinets ability to throw long distance, I realized that I really liked a wood box.
What i'm trying to learn is as follows...
what are the pros and cons of a passive vs active speaker system, aside from the convenience?
if I continue to use the crown amp, and go with a new set of passive speakers, what would you recommend? my budget in this case would be about 1000-1200 for a pair of speakers.
If I go with an active speaker, I'd really like something with a wood enclosure, but I don't want to be hoisting 100 pounders up on speakerstands.
If I go with the actives, i'll sell my crown and probably could spend between 1500-2000, trying to stay close to that $1500.00
I looked at the new Mackie 450V2s, but wasn't that impressed, not to mention the fact that i'e burned up about 5 mackie mixers in the last 5 years. Have had good luck with the old 450s, but i want to go up a notch.
Many thanks. I hope this isn't to vague.
Sincerely,
Aaron
[email protected]
My name is Aaron and I am new to this forum.
I was doing some rehesearch earlier today (online) to find a pair of speakers to replace my Mackie 450s.
First of all, let me thank you for taking the time to read this.
I spent about 3 hours reading posts on this forum and am amazed at how many brilliant people are willing to help others out in this great profession.
On to my setup...
I primarily DJ weddings and corporate parties so the new speakers will be for that purpose.
for years, I've used a pair of Mackie 450s for just about anything under 350 people and if the attendance was larger or if I was in a fur-lined kleenex box, i'll run a quad of 450s and the sub.
I run a MacBookPro into an Apogee Duet as my primary media, with a pair of ipods as backups, and I have my complete library on Minidisks.
My workstation (cube) consisits of a 10space unit which houses my Furman conditioner, a cortex 1 space mixer, 1 space lighting/fog/strobe controller, 1 space wireless mic, 1 space Sony Minidisk, and a 2 space DBX eq.
I recently bought a Crown 802 which is a great amp, but when I put that into my cube, the bitch is just too heavy for me. I thought about removing the DBX eq, which i hardly use, but i'm sure that the first gig i do without it, i'm going to be chasing down a frequency that my mixer won't let me dial in.
Anyway, when I bought the crown amp, i thought about going to a passive system and borrowed a pair of the Guitar Center Harbinger 2way with a 15 and a horn... while I wasn't terribly impressed with the cabinets ability to throw long distance, I realized that I really liked a wood box.
What i'm trying to learn is as follows...
what are the pros and cons of a passive vs active speaker system, aside from the convenience?
if I continue to use the crown amp, and go with a new set of passive speakers, what would you recommend? my budget in this case would be about 1000-1200 for a pair of speakers.
If I go with an active speaker, I'd really like something with a wood enclosure, but I don't want to be hoisting 100 pounders up on speakerstands.
If I go with the actives, i'll sell my crown and probably could spend between 1500-2000, trying to stay close to that $1500.00
I looked at the new Mackie 450V2s, but wasn't that impressed, not to mention the fact that i'e burned up about 5 mackie mixers in the last 5 years. Have had good luck with the old 450s, but i want to go up a notch.
Many thanks. I hope this isn't to vague.
Sincerely,
Aaron
[email protected]