DTXpress IV Mixer / Amp / Speakers Suggestions Please?
2011-02-13 by brinkerz128
Hi all! - First time post :) When I purchased my xpress IV, I bought a Legacy LE150MA to go with it. However! - I have since progressed on to seriously eyeing off buying a Yamaha EMX512SC Mixer/Amp (http://www.yamahamusic.com.au/produc...mx/default.asp) along with a pair of Yamaha C112V 12" PA Speakers (http://www.yamahamusic.com.au/produc...loud/clubv.asp). These will not be used for live gigging or similar of any sort in the foreseeable future. These are purely for really enjoying everything from Crowded House to TOOL whilst learning and having fun with it all. (Capacity to annoy the neighbours is clearly a bonus). This gear is all going to be played in a room essentially 4m x 4m or so, so realistically anything is going to have enough poke in a room that size. I'm obviously wanting to get this right as there'll be no going back in 6 weeks / months time to correct the purchase with more $$. I have listened to the Yamaha mixer I speak of with the A series 15" speaker 'in store' and they sounded brilliant to me - albeit just playing an array of audio tracks. It was only upon further investigation with another specialist PA supplier that they introduced me to the 12" speakers I've linked above as they felt they were a superior speaker and would provide enough bottom end for the bass, etc. The idea of a mixer never really occurred to me until I was downstairs recently playing my iPod through this Legacy LE150MA that I originally bought and thinking 'ok there's volume but it sounds generally pretty average'. And so a few tracks later, my daughter goes 'dad have you got a microphone?' .... and so I get thinking and wander into a large music retailer here where I was introduced to the Yammie's. Coupled with the right leads, the iPod through this system at 8 feet away was clearly STREETS ahead of the Legacy unit, there was the expansion and flexibility for Miss 7's microphone and Mr 5's (or mine!) addition of bass guitar or similar in years to come perhaps. Throw in the concept of their birthdays, etc in years to come and the 'mixer / speaker PA concept' was showing a lot of accommodating scope I thought yet still it's primary job was for when I did have the opportunity to go 'bye honey, have a good few hours with the kids!' and go disappear into (passed) youth a bit \uf04a Currently down here there is only $150AU between the EMX312SC (600w) & the EMX512SC (1000w) mixers when bundled with speakers, so as it's 'only 150' it kinds gets me thinking 'do I do it - to get it - then I've got it'. But equally if I'm not going to use say for example ' the upper 60% capacity' of the 312SC unit then I'm never going to use 'the upper 80% capacity' of the 512SC unit perhaps. And as such 150 is still 150 - you wouldn't walk around it if you saw it on the footpath - so why spend it if I'm never going to hear it. (But that reasoning is clashing with my get it / got it reasoning). And again, I don't want the kick bass to sound like dropping tacks on the floor. It doesn't need to blow the pailings off the fence but if I'm spending the $$ then a nice balance is important to achieve. I can't fully grasp how loud these will be but I'm inclined to think they're going to be MORE than sufficient! So the question(s) - Will these marry up nicely with the kit or is there something else I should be looking at in your (informed) opinions?? (I like the 5 year warranty with Yamaha and have only recently come across Mackie brand and others in my investigations.) Apologies for the big first post but your reading time and responses would be appreciated. Cheers!