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In Reply to: School Audio Systems... posted by tpcarter on December 11, 2006 at 20:16:55:
You have a few things to consider, In terms of sound re-enforecment you will need something that is going to withstand the rigors of life in a school and also be as flexible as possible. I purchased a system for our school last year, we purchased a Mackie CFX12 MkII 12 channel mixer with onboard effects...reverb, delay, etc. This is a full featured mixer that has 8 mic preamp/ line inputs, stereo 1/4 inch in/out, sub out,RCA in and out, channel eq and a 9 band main eq...all on a very small and portable unit. With this we run a pair of powered Mackie 1521Z speakers, 400watts, very rugged, and sound quite good. Whats nice is it is all very simple...one mixer, two XLR cables and two speakers is a complete system...plus mics of course.
as for recording i would not rely on the same system for PA and recording....you could record from the output but you would be recording the mix intended for the room and not for recording, of course you could use the mixer as a discrete recording console without the speakers but then you would have no room mix. Simple may be the way to go for the recording, two good condenser mics into a two channel recorder, DAT, or Hard Disk, any number of digital formats...
with two well placed mics in the room you will get good results. To do better will require miking many instruments independently and recording to a multichannel recorder, then doing post production work afterwards. We kinda went somewhere in the middle, we have a Digidesign Mbox which can run from a laptop and accept two mics or two 1/4 inch ins and record into a 32 track mixing environment of pro-tools which is nearly identical to the pro version used in the studios, all for around $500. Lots of options...let me know if you need any further help, be glad to share my knowledge.
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