Bose PAS L1 System

[facingwest]

Anyone ever use one? For the past year, I've been running through one and absolutely love it. The sound is out of this world and the way it fills a room is remarkable. No need for a monitor either. You hear crystal clear exactly what the audience is hearing. This year I'm going to save up and get one for when I come home to visit.

[lonewolf]

Anyone ever use one? For the past year, I've been running through one and absolutely love it. The sound is out of this world and the way it fills a room is remarkable. No need for a monitor either. You hear crystal clear exactly what the audience is hearing. This year I'm going to save up and get one for when I come home to visit.

Aren't they supposed to be super-portable? Why not bring yours with you?

I haven't seen one up close. Is that an array of small speakers or is the column some kind of full range direct radiator? No horns?

[songsmith]

Small drivers... uses line array effect to great success, although the sub box is a necessity, and I'd get 2 for most music. For a solo guy, the system can't be beat in a room the size of the Hitching Post. It seems to take a little while to get used to not having seperate zones (house sound and monitor sound), and the sound doesn't reach around corners into side rooms as well as 2 speakers on sticks would, but the single point source keeps things cleaner in live, echoey rooms, and setup time is, oh, 30 seconds.----->JMS

[lonewolf]

For solo, I have used this "new" single point, no monitor idea for about 16 years now. I have always placed my system behind me and used it for monitors as well. A high quality condenser or headset mic eliminates feedback problems. I have always used some variation of EV stuff and never had a problem with sound quality.

My solo audio system now consists of a 20lb. 4 space shallow rack and two 36lb. EV SXA360 powered cabs capable of an average SPL of around 130db at 1W/1M. I array them on the floor and put the rack on top of them.

There are three power cables, two 3' line cables, a mic cable and a guitar cable which can be completely set up and ready to play in about 2 minutes.

The lights have one power cable and one midi cable and take another few minutes to set up.

[facingwest]

I wondered where this thread went to. heh

The system is extremely portable and has a bunch of different things it can do. The one at Irish Kevin's has 2 bass enclosures and fills the room nice. The only time I have to turn on the mains in the house is whenever the room is completely full. Rather than killing my ears with the Bose, the house sound is only to fill things up a bit.

The speakers are full range and there aren't any horns. It evenly disperses the sound or to the best of what it's designed to. The best thing I like about it is I get to hear exactly what the audience is hearing. It helps when running two loop stations. One for guitar and one for vocals with various samples I can recall with a footswitch. I love tripping people out with 3 part harmonies going and there's one person standing on stage. Sometimes I cross my arms and stop singing. It's funny to see the look on someone's face whenever you do that.

The system also has presets to work with just about anything you throw at it. Even though it has 4 channels, you really only get a good control over 2 of the 4. We run a Mackie board into ours and it works great for that.

[lonewolf]

I love tripping people out with 3 part harmonies going and there's one person standing on stage. Sometimes I cross my arms and stop singing. It's funny to see the look on someone's face whenever you do that.

That's not fair.

If I stop singing during a 5 part harmony, nothing comes out.

So John, would you say that with this system (without horns), electric guitar solos would sound a lot better and not as "brassy" as thru a horn-loaded enclosure?

[facingwest]

Everything sounds crystal clear, very warm, and there isn't any hiss like you would get from a horn.

Sweet Emotion and Free Fallin are the tunes I usually do that on. I joke with them sometimes and tell them I'm Milli Vanilli. At that point, I have to show them that it's me doing everything. I just ask a person's name in the audience and say "Hi _____, have I ever told you that I like to repeat myself over and over again?", then hit the loop.