MikeLascuola wrote on Tue, 10 April 2007 10:10 |
Good points all. Of course you want to have a spare for a single point of failure.
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A spare, or a well thought out fallback strategy for equipment failure.
Sometimes, just going PC (or CD player) to tops can get you through the night, if you have all the cables you need, and you know how to use the speakers. No ideal, but it works, and the clients/dancers will get their money's worth.
I have experienced failure in various components. Mostly the people on the floor never know. The only time it was obvious was when I left the (rented) mixer at home. Went PC to active speaker, then cable to the second active speaker, and away. The "obvious" part was when the mixer arrived and I had to shut down the music to put it into use.
A bit of thinking can provide alternatives to carrying expensive but unused gear. If the gear is generally very reliable and locally available (or an equivilant is available), then put the money into better quality gear instead of duplicates.
Having said that - I had a couple of threads on crossovers, comparing Behringer to dBx. What was really surprising was that there were more dBx failures reported in the discussions than Behringer failures......