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Regular Stereo Receiver/amp with seperates!

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In Reply to: RE: Bass vs. keyboard amps posted by Handle on November 21, 2008 at 12:13:50

My wife's cousin's daughter was having her Bat Mitzvah at some dive on Long Island. They knew that I was into audio and asked if I could bring some equipment for a sound system ( they went overboard on the location and food but forgot about music). The system I brought was a regular but older home theater unit (Yamaha RX-V1400), Portable mixer (Tascam 414), two Alesis amps (RA-300), two older speakers (dB Soundfield V - which I had previously replaced the crossover circuitry), and two mics (cheap Samsons incase someone wanted to emulate Roger Daltry), and my laptop loaded with tunes.
Laptop headphone output and mics went into the mixer. Mixer line out went into the Yamaha. Yamaha preouts went into the two amps and thence to the speakers.
This set up was enough for a very large hall with about 300 people and enable those into karaoke. And it all sounded very good when finally set up using the Yamaha YPAO system and seperate sound level meter.
With a couple of Art phono preamps (or if your turntables have internal amps) there are plenty of options within the HT unit. For my neighbors birthday party (50th) the week after Thanksgiving, I'm using the same set up as above, but including one turntable, one CD player, and a DVD player (they're bringing the digital projector).

Edits: 11/26/08

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RE: Regular Stereo Receiver/amp with seperates! - smcdonie@uwsp.edu 07:31:33 12/02/08 (2)
FYI
Your mixer is a pre amp out

You said you ran from the mixer to a Yamaha integrated then pre amp
out to amps...

This is redundancy

Run headphone out to the Mixer and from the mixer into the amps and eliminate the Yamaha from the chain
- RE: Regular Stereo Receiver/amp with seperates! - Mudcat 04:36:44 12/04/08 (1)
  The reason I ran everything into the Yamaha was to keep all conections in one place. Because, not mentioned, was there was also a DVD player and Widescreen monitor plugged in. Yeah, your're correct in that I could avoid the Yamaha. But I was also easier to to use that to control overall volume - Ask someone to turn up/down the volume they'll automatically twist the big knob without looking vs staring at the mixer and wondering "Hey what's this button do"
  - RE: Regular Stereo Receiver/amp with seperates! - smcdonie@uwsp.edu 08:32:32 12/10/08 (0)
    The mixer master volume is simply a slider
    Your probably adding alot of noise you dont need in the chain with
    all the gain structure you have going on with everything
    The DVD player can run into the mixer along with everything else
    
    However, its your gig, and its your rig.............
    :)

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