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Re: Onstage monitoring

2001-10-11 by wagner84@yahoo.com

Hey checkup on the Roland KC-500
www.ricksmusic.com
its a 15" keyboard AMP (these a recogmended for edrums) anyway the 
15" speaker and the horn driver are what it sounds like you need, the 
KC-500 offers theses! Check it out.

John


--- In DTXpress@y..., davidoz@f... wrote:
> Any suggestions as to a good onstage monitor to use.
> We are currently using a foldback wedge with a 12" speaker with a 
> horn driver.(Unknown Brand) 
> While this wedge is good for vocals and other instruments the 
dynamic 
> range of the Drum sounds often exceeds the speakers capabilties 
> (especially when more than two voices are used at once)plus the way 
> this wedge colours the sound is not too good.
> They say front of house sounds really good but what I get is pretty 
> ordinary. 
> We run a mono house mix, output from the DTX head of course is mono 
> and the return from the desk to foldback amp is the same. 
> I also get 2 Keyboards(Roland Epiano + Synth), vocals and 
songleader 
> into this monitor.
> We now don't have a big onstage sound (this was one of the reasons 
> for getting the DTX)so all I'm really looking for is something that 
> will give a decent drum sound without the need to blow everybody 
else 
> away.
> Any suggestions??

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