Musician Gear & Tech Discussion

My father is building a home theater system in his new home. Since it will be sound proof he wants to use the room for playing music and dancing as well. So now I am tasked to find a sound system suitable for watching movies, listening to music, as well as playing instruments. I was told that it is not a good idea to use one system for both purposes. What do you guys think? I don't have an opinion on that yet because I don't know what is needed for a home-band sound system. If you guys could educate me a little bit that'd be great.

Any suggestions please?
What brand is good?
What kind of system is needed?
What devices are essential?

I imagine there needs to be a sound mixer of some kind?

Thank you all, and Merry Christmas!

My father is building a home theater system in his new home. Since it will be sound proof he wants to use the room for playing music and dancing as well. So now I am tasked to find a sound system suitable for watching movies, listening to music, as well as playing instruments. I was told that it is not a good idea to use one system for both purposes. What do you guys think? I don't have an opinion on that yet because I don't know what is needed for a home-band sound system. If you guys could educate me a little bit that'd be great.

Any suggestions please?
What brand is good?
What kind of system is needed?
What devices are essential?

I imagine there needs to be a sound mixer of some kind?

Thank you all, and Merry Christmas!

The larger Klipsch or JBL THX systems will do the job. You just have to remember that when watching a movie your settings will be in the "THX surround mode" and when playing a band through the system the mixer will go into the stereo input of the the system and the system needs to be set at stereo.

Hi RG,

Thanks for your reply. Could you possibly give a summary of how the system would be designed? Like how the instruments would eventually be connected to the speakers? And the theater system design as well?

Thanks!

RG is right. Home theater and live music are different animals with different needs. A very high end system could do both at a much higher cost. $20K maybe??

Gear list:
A quality live music mixer for instrument and mic inputs
A bunch of mics cords & stands
A Home theater receiver
Separate amps for front speakers, surrounds and subs or powered speakers. (HT receiver won't cut it)
Speakers designed for live music: JBL, EV, Klipsch (big $$)

These guys know much more about such things as I for sure.

But me ... I'd probably just drop a nice powered mixer like one of Carvins compact into the room with a few monitors.
Jack the " TV / Stereo " equipment trough the 1/8th" stereo inputs and run my instruments and mic's as I normally would.

I play the stereo through my mixer quite a lot. Tweak the EQ a bit ... sounds great.

Then if you wanted to take the band outside or to someone else's place just pop a few plugs and your on your way.

Ive run one of my preamps into my home system, Im not sure how that work for a full band, to me they are two different animals.


Good Luck

Ok Let me clear this up:

The Klipsch system can handle anything a Full blowen PA can do in your living room. The system can be resessed into the walls for a very pleasing custom installation which will make the wife happy. Any mixing board can be pluged into the controller pictured in front of the woofers.



The same thing can be done with the JBL system pictured below.



Both systems can produce up to 132db of sound in a avarage size living room.

Also, when you are running the mixing board through the controller ONLY the "two main front speakers and the subwoofer" will be operating.

If you need me to install the Klipsch system for you I will only charge $80,000.00 per hour and a all expences paid two week vacation in the Vergin Islands.

this would do it just fine...


http://www.ebay.com/itm/BOSE-L1-MODEL-1 ... 3cc0663995

You could do concerts with this system



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Or this is a little cheaper and does the same thing on a smaller scale.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bose-L1-Compact ... 589171f929

this would do it just fine...


http://www.ebay.com/itm/BOSE-L1-MODEL-1 ... 3cc0663995

You could do concerts with this system



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Or this is a little cheaper and does the same thing on a smaller scale.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bose-L1-Compact ... 589171f929

My father is building a home theater system in his new home. Since it will be sound proof he wants to use the room for playing music and dancing as well. So now I am tasked to find a sound system suitable for watching movies, listening to music, as well as playing instruments. I was told that it is not a good idea to use one system for both purposes. What do you guys think? I don't have an opinion on that yet because I don't know what is needed for a home-band sound system. If you guys could educate me a little bit that'd be great.


I really don't want to rain on your parade but you do know that the Bose system converts the low freqs to square waves and the high freqs are converted to notch filter waves. Its bad enough that electronics mess up the wave forms but its really bad when a speaker system screws up the wave form even more.

this would do it just fine...


http://www.ebay.com/itm/BOSE-L1-MODEL-1 ... 3cc0663995

You could do concerts with this system



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Or this is a little cheaper and does the same thing on a smaller scale.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bose-L1-Compact ... 589171f929

My father is building a home theater system in his new home. Since it will be sound proof he wants to use the room for playing music and dancing as well. So now I am tasked to find a sound system suitable for watching movies, listening to music, as well as playing instruments. I was told that it is not a good idea to use one system for both purposes. What do you guys think? I don't have an opinion on that yet because I don't know what is needed for a home-band sound system. If you guys could educate me a little bit that'd be great.


I really don't want to rain on your parade but you do know that the Bose system converts the low freqs to square waves and the high freqs are converted to notch filter waves. Its bad enough that electronics mess up the wave forms but its really bad when a speaker system screws up the wave form even more.

Would you mind chewing that again and spitting it out in English ?

I really don't want to rain on your parade but you do know that the Bose system converts the low freqs to square waves and the high freqs are converted to notch filter waves. Its bad enough that electronics mess up the wave forms but its really bad when a speaker system screws up the wave form even more.

The results are one of the clearest sounding systems you can get for both home audio and live music.

I wouldn't recommend them for a room full of standing people (bass won't get through) or in a room with a balcony (sends out a 7' wall of sound) and, yeah, a room full of JBLs might be better for a band.....but for the price, the space, the portability, and quality of sound in a small room, the Bose are the best system you could get for what he's looking for.

Period.