Mobile DJ You Must Buy a Good PA or Your Event Will Fail!

0:00 It's about buying a PA system

Alright, this video is hopefully going to help you save a lot of money and also save your business and save quite a lot of embarrassment. It's about buying a PA system. During the course of this video I am not once going to mention the name of any PA company, OK? That's not what this is about. This is about making you decide for yourself to get the best system you can. Now first of all, if you're a mobile DJ and you've spent a couple of hundred pounds on your controller, pretty good. You've spent a couple of hundred pounds on some lighting, yep. And then you think, well, two, four, another two on PA, we're good to go. Well, you're wrong. You're very, very much mistaken because your PA system is the end product. You know, you go from A...

B to C. C is what the public will be listening to. In other words, if you have not got something that sounds good, then it doesn't matter how much you've spent on the rest of the kit. If the end product is not giving out the information it needs to, in other words, the music is loud and it's of good quality, then you've wasted your time. Put another way, you could have spent 5 or 6 grand, if not more, on the best CDJs in the world. You could have spent the same amount on lighting, but if you think, well, you know, I've spent 10 grand on all that lot, I'll just spend another 500 on a decent PA system, then you're an absolute bloody idiot. Your PA system is the basis of your mobile system. Without a good PA system,

2:19 At making you believe that that is 500 watts

You can indeed go on the likes of eBay or anywhere around the web and you can buy a set of speakers for £100, euros, dollars, whatever, powered as well. And on that system it will say 500 watts of power. Now you're thinking, well 500 watts, that's pretty good, that's going to do a couple of hundred people. You're wrong. Because companies are very clever. At making you believe that that is 500 watts. Did you know there's RMS, there's peak power, there's PMPO? There are numerous other ways of explaining what 500 watts could be. So this is what you need to look out for. Very simply. There is more to this but I'm going to try and make sure this video is short and sweet and to the point. Always look for the RMS because that is the sort of power that the speakers should be able to do continually all night without fail. Also, make sure that you go for a good company, a good make. So before you buy, ask people what do they use? What have they used in the past that's let them down? What have they used in the past that has just kept on going on?

And on and on and on, and never failed them. Also, if you think about it, if you're going to buy a set of speakers that are powered as well, and you're buying them for say 200 pounds, dollars or euros, you've got to ask yourself this question. That's 200 pounds to manufacture them, to get them delivered, for them to be sold. Also, 200 pounds for the driver. The box, the amplification, all of those bits for £200 and you're buying two of them. So that's a hundred pounds, euros or dollars each cabinet. That's, it seems to be too good to be true. Well, you know what? It is too bloody good to be true because if you're going to pay peanuts then expect to act like a frigging monkey and also expect the sound to be terrible.

But, this is the pinnacle of this video, alright? You've just bought yourself a set of speakers that have cost you less than a cheapskate second-hand car with one month's MOT that's going to fall flat on its arse halfway down the road after you've just bought it. So you're halfway through your gig and someone asks you to crank up that dubstep or drum and bass and you turn it up only to find all you can hear is people going what's going on and silence and then a boo boo hiss because your system has stopped working you don't want that to happen because not only will you look a complete dick you won't get any money for the night and you know what the way social media works someone's on their phone

Thank you.

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