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Anyone know a shop in Dublin to buy a PA system?

  • 08-08-2018 6:07pm
    #1
    hatrickpatrick
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    Looking for a PA system for an outdoor gig next weekend. Left it foolishly late to get one so I can't really afford to risk buying online and not getting it in time - are there any stores or suppliers in Dublin where one might find PA systems? It's for an outdoor gig so I reckon I need somewhere in the region of 700-1000 watts, but crucially I'm looking for a package that includes a mixer or audio interface. Everywhere I've found seems to sell speakers, stands, etc but nowhere seems to have a full PA package.

    Essentially I'm looking for a setup into which we can just plug two vocal mics, an acoustic guitar, and a keyboard, and away we go. If we must source pieces of equipment separately and put it together ourselves then as a last resort that's cool, but surely it should be possible to buy a PA system with all that included? You can certainly hire them easily enough in Dublin, so buying one doesn't seem like it should be too difficult?


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  • #2
    endacl
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    Obvious question:

    Why not just hire or borrow if you just need it for one gig?


  • #3
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    endacl wrote: »
    Obvious question:

    Why not just hire or borrow if you just need it for one gig?

    Hoping to organise a bunch more gigs in the near future, renting a PA system each time feels like money down the drain in that context. Finding someone to rent one from seems to be very easy, buying one not so much.


  • #4
    maccored
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    you'd need two full range speakers, an amp, a small mixing desk, speaker stands, speaker cables and mics/mic leads. PAs are made up of the components as you can make so many variations. somewhere like X music would have everything you need, or have a look on adverts for something cheaper (since its going to cost a few grand or more for a new PA)


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