Bits of Kit I use on the road

0:00 I can show you a bit of my kit

I can show you a bit of my kit. Right, these guys here, I've got two of these. They used to have four of the buggers. They're RC Event 6000s and they're full range cabs so they'll take one amplifier but then you can bi-amp them. And what bi-amp means is you need two amplifiers to run one speaker. If I bi-amped them, you have there, I think that's an 8 inch mid driver and then a 1.5 inch compression driver and the one amplifier would run those two speakers. And then you have underneath there, you can see two 15s and the other amp would run those too. But I just use them at the moment just on one amplifier. So inside there you've got something called a passive crossover. So you have the power coming in and then the crossover distributes the correct signals to these speakers. So like these guys here, you'll have the bass. So on your mixer where it says bass, that's what those guys will do.

That's the mid speaker there, and then that's the treble. That's the treble speaker. So I'll just pause this and we'll have a look at a bit more kit. Hold on. Okay, take this guy on the road with me as well. It's a dual CD player. I mean, very simple and straightforward. CD1 Exatronic. That cost in the UK about £160 thereabouts. Studio Master Amplifier. It's an AX3500. Basically that will push out 1100 watts a side at 4 ohms, so it's a nice setup but I shouldn't really have the amplifier directly underneath there. I mean it doesn't matter, but that guy if it does get hot of course then everything else gets hot and if you're doing a function like four or five hours on the trot you need the air to get circulated. So right let's have a look at some more kit. Okay here we've got

A PV speaker, it's a moulded cab and basically that just means it's made out of plastic. And you've got a 12 inch and a 1 inch compression driver. Now these guys here are very, very good. I bought two of these second hand from the music shop Midwells Music in Newtown so if you're watching this, alright Phil, good bloke there. And I bought the two of these for £40 which is about $80. The reason being It's because this is, well, this one's perfect. Everything works. But the other guy, the 12-inch driver, they're known as Black Widow drivers. That had blown. It wasn't working. So all you actually need to do with the Black Widow, the beauty about them, is the actual magnet screws away from the basket and the basket is the speaker part.

2:42 Uh, this guy here pushes out 450 watts a side at 4 ohms

So all I've got to do at some point is literally just get a new basket and then I've got two brand new speakers that, I think the basket's about £70 so it's not a bad sort of price for a couple of speakers but even that you see, having said that I can always use this one as a monitor which I have done previously. Okay we've got this guy here as well, I've got two of the Studio Masters and I've got one of these, it's a Citronic PPX900 Um, with that thing on the front of the fan. And there's, hello boobs! Uh, this guy here pushes out 450 watts a side at 4 ohms. And these guys are workhorses. I mean, I used to have a lot of these and I would run them continually all night at parties and raves and stuff like that. And they never got even hot. They never got even warm. I mean, they're fantastic amplifiers. I mean, you can see compared to the size of my hand.

5:50 Let's see if I can find something else to show you

Ok, now this is a washing machine. I take this occasionally on the road with me. The actual RPM of this can go up to 1100 RPM, so it does actually go really fast. The trouble is it's exceedingly heavy to get in the van and a couple of times I've taken it, I've still had the wife's underwear in there, so it's a bit awkward really. OK, here we've got what is known as, it's a projector, and the company is Optikinetics. It's a Solar 250. There's a newer one And this guy here is a bit of an old sucker, but I've got about eight of these. And I would say out of any lighting that I have, these are the most versatile and I'm not trying to advertise here, I'm just saying how it is.

These guys, you know, you can do anything with them. You can put an oil wheel on them, which is what I use. You've seen them a couple of times in the videos. Thank you for watching. It's, we're getting to a stage whereby I'm sure, you know, some guy will walk in with a briefcase and he'll rock the party for a thousand people. So let's see if I can find something else to show you. Okay, this mixer here is basically a chuck it in the back of the van before I go mixer, simply because, you know, if you're driving sort of 150, 200 miles away, the last thing you want is your mixer to blow. Just, or not work, just the same as the Citronic amplifier you saw. So I'll always take this guy with me.

It's got a crossfade, it's got the punch buttons you don't really need. It's got bass, treble and gain for the microphone. And it's got your cue so you can hear what's on the headphones or you can hear what the punters are hearing. Cue level and master volume. Yes, it's only got volume controls and it's only two channels, so either phono, turntable or CD player. But at the end of the day, like I said, if you go into a function and your mixer stops working...

You're basically buggered. So I take this, and it's never happened yet, but there's always a first time. But this guy here, it's hanging around the house, and you never know, it may come in use one day. So there you go. There's a little insight into the sort of kit I've got, which is a bit of a mishmash actually, and everything needs to be tidied up. And yes, Lisa, if you're watching this, I promise you I will tidy everything up. And by the way, Nicole, I love you. Take care. Practice and enjoy. Bye bye.

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