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I think I found the right place to ask this question... I know nothing about audio equipment (except that I shouldn't buy Bose) and I need to buy a loudspeaker setup for my seminars. Here are the requirements, and I expect to get lots of laughs as you read this, but please, work with me on this. Any advice, recommendations or information is really, truly appreciated.
The ideal system is:1. Small and light as I'll be traveling with it regularly. Lightweight is really important.
2. Portable and sturdy with a good carrying bag of some sort; I may have to check it on the airlines (is this a really awful idea?)
3. Not too technically complicated since it will just be me setting it up and using it -- must be really easy to use (idiot-proof) with hopefully not too many cables and dials.
4. Capable of filling a large hotel conference room or very small theatre/performance space with an audience up to 50 peopleI'll be using it for my lectures (speeches) and will be hooking it up to a portable CD or MP3 player (Sony or iPod, probably). I need the speakers and mic and you-tell-me-what-all, and also recommendations on any device that I can use to digitally record my lectures so that I can burn them to CD from my computer.
Budget? My target is $500 (don't laugh) but based on what I learn here I can be flexible. I need to get this puppy this week.
--Lisa
Follow Ups:
Thank you to everyone who took the time to respond! I went ahead with the Fender Passport 150 and it works great! There sure are a lot of cables and knobs though -- if this is the simplest on the market then I'm glad I went with it because any more technical sophistication in the equipment and I doubt I'd deal with it very well. =) It says it's only 28 lbs. but boy, that feels heavy after lugging it down a Manhattan city block.This board was a tremendous help when I was beginning my research so again, thank you for providing such a great resource.
--Lisa
Try looking at the Carvin Stagemate system. I've wanted to have one of these for several years. I could have used it at a graveside service last year. Very portable and have supposedly been used to direct outdoor battle scenes in movies. I am not affiliated with Carvin in any way.
/www.carvin.com/products/mixer.php?ItemNumber=s400
Fender
You can use one mixer output for the loudspeaker and the other output for your recording of the lectures
Real easy
The mixer comes with a complete manual and is easy to run
LisaPlease note that the loudspeaker has a 10" high powered driver
in it. Musicians friend has a typo that its a 15" driverIts plenty powerful enough and will give you high clarity and
good dispersion into the room and its small and compact with a
carrying handle and perfect for a lady to carry :)Stu
Lisa
I believe you can do this with one powered loudspeaker on a tripod
It would have all the output you need for a small conference room
and you could use a small 4 channel mixer to input to it.
Then you could plug your Ipod/laptop/microphone/cdplayer into the mixer
You would simply have one self powered(amp built into it) 12 inch two
way loudspeaker and one tripod to put it on.
You plug your mixer in on the table and run one cable to the powered
speaker facing your audience. It would be small and do the job
you need done
Check these links10 inch two way powered Loudspeaker
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=live/s=speakers/search/detail/base_pid/601385/Tripod with case
http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/pshowdetl.cfm?&PartNumber=245-010&DID=7Mixer to plug your ipod and mic and laptop into
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=live/s=mixers/search/detail/base_pid/631237/Stop at a local music store to get the cable you need
from the mixer to the powered loudspeakerI know this setup would work and its airline friendly and small
and easy to setup
Find a little case you can use as a carry on to carry your mixer
its small..
Good luck
Fender makes systems that may be a fit with what you need. I've never owned one but these have a pretty good rep amongst musicians I know who play smaller venues and 'folkier' stuff than I do.Here is a link to a small Fender Passport system that weighs in at slightly less than 30 lbs and $400 (Musican's Friend is a catalog company).
I'm not sure if a mic stand and speaker stands are included.
Dave
Also, this may be stone-aged advice, but you may just want to record to cassette tape and then transfer it to your computer via your sound card at a later date. Tapes and tape recorders are cheap, rugged and easy to use.There are systems available that will record to a .wav format (I think Marantz makes one) and systems that can record to a .mp3 format. You can also set up your laptop to digitally record using something like Event’s Echo.
I tap off the board control room outs, and send it to my Sony Camcorder. 18bit PCM recordings are then dropped down to the computer via firewire. Strip off the video and you're left with great sounding MP3 stuff.
Tom
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