beatdat
Senior Member
My band has found a new rehearsal space, and I'm looking for suggestions on a suitable power amp to buy that will handle vocals well.
The room itself is about 18' x 22', with 8.5' ceilings. We have 2x 15" Yorkville speaker cabinets that we will use as the main vocal speakers, and 2x 12" Yorkville speaker cabinets that we plan to use as floor monitors. The 15" speakers were bought new in the beginning of this year, and the 12" speakers have been around for some time (they aren't ours, but belong to the other band sharing the space). The mixer we'll be using is a Mackie 1402 model that is about 20 years old and in pretty good condition.
We need a power amp to handle the four speakers. Our music is hard rock, and our singer wants to make sure that any amp we get will be powerful enough to handle his vocals, plus any back-up vocals - it would also be nice to have the headroom to comfortably add another instrument into the mix (eg. keyboards, acoustic guitar, etc.), should the need arise.
Any recommendations on a good power amp that can handle all of this? I don't have much experience with this, so I'm hoping some of you can help me out. We're in Toronto, ON, and Long & McQuade is my go-to store for most of my musical needs, so something they sell would be easiest for us to check out. But, we're also amenable to buying something used.
Thanks.
The room itself is about 18' x 22', with 8.5' ceilings. We have 2x 15" Yorkville speaker cabinets that we will use as the main vocal speakers, and 2x 12" Yorkville speaker cabinets that we plan to use as floor monitors. The 15" speakers were bought new in the beginning of this year, and the 12" speakers have been around for some time (they aren't ours, but belong to the other band sharing the space). The mixer we'll be using is a Mackie 1402 model that is about 20 years old and in pretty good condition.
We need a power amp to handle the four speakers. Our music is hard rock, and our singer wants to make sure that any amp we get will be powerful enough to handle his vocals, plus any back-up vocals - it would also be nice to have the headroom to comfortably add another instrument into the mix (eg. keyboards, acoustic guitar, etc.), should the need arise.
Any recommendations on a good power amp that can handle all of this? I don't have much experience with this, so I'm hoping some of you can help me out. We're in Toronto, ON, and Long & McQuade is my go-to store for most of my musical needs, so something they sell would be easiest for us to check out. But, we're also amenable to buying something used.
Thanks.