donnyboybelfast@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks very much for the information. It makes a lot of sense, so I’ll avoid them. These are a better make and have a cross over built in http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ex-Display-Peavey-Pro-Sub-MK2-Subwoofer-15-Passive-PA-DJ-Bass-Bin-Prosub-SINGLE-/190776114038?pt=UK_Sound_Vision_Speakers_Monitor&hash=item2c6b247b76

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peavey-PRO-SUB-MK2-Subwoofers-Bass-Bins-Pro-Sub-SINGLE-/281087867759?pt=UK_Sound_Vision_Speakers_Monitor&hash=item4172247b6f

Again grateful for your advice

Thanks

Regards

Don

I found some REALLY cheap bass bins here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1000W-Ekho-MAX15SUB-15-Subwoofer-Bass-DJ-Disco-PA-Sound-System-Karaoke-Party-/121074515256?_trksid=p5197.m1997&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D16%26meid%3D7399016568563806902%26pid%3D100016%26prg%3D1006%26rk%3D1%26sd%3D151026159844%26 and was thinking of adding them for some gigs I am planning to run. The main Ekho website isn’t great, errors in what’s written don’t inspire confidence. Some searches seem to relate these to Rokit speakers, and my DJ partner had some of their powered monitors and had issues with them.
Hard to go wrong with such little money gambled do you think?

I used to DJ in my bedroom with Vinyl – late 90s, made friends with a guy who was DJing in clubs using CD and I called it sacriledge at the time. It’s similar in my mind to how I got in to grunge and Nu-metal or rap metal while many of my friends considered new or different rock and roll to be sacriledge – they all stayed faithful to Iron Maiden, Judas Priest etc, while I moved on with innovative rock groups who did something new. It’s human nature, you have conservative folk who like to stick with what is familiar, and adventurous people who are willing to try or accept something new. No offense intended, but a sign of intelligence is considered to be willingness to try new things…

I have been using a pair of passive 200W Skytec speakers for several years, and while the horn/tweeter has blown a few times (usually when you go for a comfort break meaning some idiot has got the mic, or when I loaned them to someone) they are great for the money – I was doing small venue parties with them and only had a complaint once where the acoustics of the room meant they weren’t loud enough. I still use them in combination with the larger LD speakers where we have a big room to cover and they compliment the LD speakers well meaning together they give a well balanced sound in my opinion. I really can’t fault them for the price at all, like I say had them 3 years or more and working as a Mobile Disco/DJ. I use a Stanton M304 mixer and KAM KXR600 amp with them, when my business partner uses his mixer (one bundled with his CDJs) the sound quality is noticably poorer, I think because the levels from his mixer aren’t as high.

I also recommend Audacity, but I also use Goldwave – you can get it from Oldversion.com – it has some useful features like batch processing, filters and effects – it’s shareware and does limit you to so many operations per use of the software, then you have to close it down and open again.

It’s almost May and I had to wear a heavy fleece under my raincoat while cycling to/from work – I see Spanish tourists wearing heavy coats in July here too mind you