Talk:Live sound reproduction

what would u need for PA system? when djing in a culb —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.83.68.90 (talk) 12:21, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi, at bare minimum, you would need 2 PA speaker cabinets capable of handling high power levels, a power amplifier and a simple mixer (for going between CDs, records, etc.). For better bass response, you might want to rent a "powered subwoofer" to separately amplify the bass parts of the music.NatMor 17:30, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Delete?
agreed on the generic and duplicate properties of this article, not to mention its low quality. propose deletion --drmartini 22:35, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Sound reinforcement / PA system
I have done live sound for a number of years. I was never aware of any distinction between "sound reinforcement" and a "pa system" of the type implied in this article. They are both means of amplifying the sound.

It's true that different venues and types of events have different requirements, but people would use either of these terms as appropriate in either a church or rock concert setup. (i.e. I ran the PA system at a church, I read the Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook while I was learning to mix monitors for rock concerts). Both terms apply to both settings. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.92.38.186 (talk) 4:42, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

I would say that the article's definition of sound reinforcement system and PA are backwards. When I think of a traditional PA system, I think of something used in a meeting room or church with a focus on amplifying the spoken word. When I think of a sound reinforcement system, I think of something more modern designed to amplify musicians as well the singin voice. In a PA system intelligibility is most important. In a sound reinforcement system loudness, fidelity and coverage are most important.

Robert.harker (talk) 20:52, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Way too Generic
This article is way to generic. The opening sentence is a run on and needs to be re written. The defining of the terms "PA" and "Sound Reinforcement" are also too generic. A sound reinforcement system is only meant to be unnoticed in Jazz and Classical genre's, in contemporary music the SR system also enhances the live sound as well as amplifying it.

A good example of how far to generic this article is the section that specifies that a 19" rack is the ideal rack to have a the FOH position. Many different quantities and sizes of racks are used at FOH are used and defining a specific size is irrelevant to the topic.  I suggest this article be rewritten to include more about larger systems and be disambiguated a bit. --PM - PhilyG talk 18:18, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Should this article be merged with Sound reinforcement system?
As the above comment mentioned this article is not very good. In addition to being generic, it is also not very complete. The Sound reinforcement system page covers much of the same material and is much more complete. I recommend that anything covered in this article be merged with the Sound reinforcement system article and this page be deleted.

Robert.harker (talk) 20:58, 10 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I am in agreement and feel that this should just be deleted as pretty much everything in this article is in the Sound reinforcement system article. That one has been expanded much further, though needs to be cleaned up quite a bit.  Any other thoughts from anyone else? --PM - PhilyG talk 07:25, 23 January 2009 (UTC)


 * On further thought, since no one has really been discussing on this page until my above post, I am going to go ahead with the merger. Feel free to put it back if anyone feels this was not appropriate. --PM - PhilyG talk 07:40, 23 January 2009 (UTC)