Amps

[blademaster]

I dont know if anyones done this thread before but oh well. Is there any good place to get monitor amps in tucson, az or even online mor mail order, anything. i'm not really sure about what specs are needed.

 

[AVGuyAndy]

There's plenty of online mail-order places? What is the model of your monitors?

 

[BillESC]

The first thing to do is determine the spec's you'll need otherwise you'll either over buy or under buy.

Find out the RMS rating for the cabinet then select an amplifier with twice the wattage. It's a good place to start.

 

[blademaster]

what cabinet? We put ours in a little cubby to the left of our board below there is no cabinet or case of any sort just them scrwed into 2x4s

 

[AVGuyAndy]

What's the RMS rating of the speaker?

 

[blademaster]

Forgie me for being naive "RMS"?? I can find out tonight from the manual but i dont know off the top of my head.

 

[Mayhem]

what cabinet? We put ours in a little cubby to the left of our board below there is no cabinet or case of any sort just them scrwed into 2x4s

Cabinet is another term for a speaker box. Probably not as widely used today but still one of the terms for a speaker box.

 

[BillESC]

I apologize for being old...

We always called speakers cabinets.

 

[AVGuyAndy]

If it makes you feel better, I call them cabinets and I'm 18

 

[propmonkey]

i heard them called cabinets all the time and sometimes jsut cabs. i guess its a dying term

 

[VipermanGTX]

A dying Term..........hardly, i'm an 18 year old FOH engineer and i don't know what els to call a Speak cab, other then a CAB. "hey, dude, put this speak-on in that cab over there" i mean......... these terms thave been used since the dawning of the Sound board and are still used today. Who the hell is going to say, "Hey nince speaker enclosure!" no one. One simple word...CAB.




^that is by far the stupidest yet not so pointless Rant i have ever done.

 

[Mayhem]

I hear them called boxes, cabs, stacks, specific names (W's, horns, j-bins, traps etc), their actual role (sub, low, mid, mid/high etc) as well as their model numbers.

Guess it depends on where you were tought/work.

 

[blademaster]

OK, well then. thank you for the help in me be less knowledgable, but the model of the current amp were using is a Peavey CS200X Amp

 

[blademaster]

i know that we are using hotspots and floor monitors but i dont know the models

 

[blademaster]

The specs for the Hotspots are "Galaxy Audio Hotspot 16ohms nom. imp." The floor monitors are "Yamaha imp 8ohm model #SM10H 11-OAK"
Here is the actual specs from Gakaxy Audio
http://www.galaxyaudio.com/galaxy/galaxyPRODUCTS.html#HOTSPOT

 

[AVGuyAndy]

I would just buy all new everything. That system sounds really...not good.

 

[blademaster]

The system its self actually could run alot better if i could convince my pastor and the lead tech to run using subgroups as well as getting that other monitor amp