HI,
New here. Still not shure what to get.
With the BOSE model 1 you get two mike inputs with feedback elimination already programmed in for any popular microphone you may use and 2 1/4 inputs for external music sources. I used a single in a bar where the owner wondered why I only brought in one speaker for his bar and if it would have enough output to even get across the dancefloor into the room. I had it at about 35% of full volume and he told me it was too loud at the bar (in the back of the room) Yea! It was enough. Oh…and no feedback all night even though it was 2 to 3 feet behind the singers. No need for stage monitors either.
I own a bose L1 model 2 with tonematch engine. And luckily for you…8)…I also own (half own) a yamaha EMX512SC powered mixer and 2 CV115 speakers (the matching club series speakers for the mixer).
Both are great. The Yamaha mixer head and speakers has done a zillion gigs, always sounds great, love the one knob compression, desk EQ and the 7 band graphic on the head work great…the mute button which mutes all bar the last couple of channels, so you can kill stage mics with the push of a button and still have your breaks music coming through.
Used it from solo to band gigs. (as a vocal pa) always worked great. Good, solid , great sounding, easy to use conventional PA system…at a great price…here in Oz the price of the bose stuff is cripplingly high.
That said, I also own and use a Bose L1 Model 2 system that I use when I do solo acoustic guitar/vocal gigs.
I have a very bad back, and cant lift the yamaha system, the guy I am a share in it with, keeps it and loads it in and out of gigs we do together.
the bose , I can manage.
The bose L1 system , for what I do , one guitar , one voice, is magnificent. I have never performed through anything that I have enjoyed as much.
I would probably recommend the Yamaha system to start with, if you can lift it, if you can transport it…
It will give you enough volume and thump to do the job.
If you can afford the bose, and a couple of B1’s to go with it…sure…
but for the price, the Yamaha is very hard to beat.
You would also, perhaps be able to hire it out to bands…
cheers
Wiz
The sound quality, portability and the marketability of the Bose name convinced a guy in his late 50’s he could transform a lot of public speaking experience and the life long avocation of mixing music, producing events and throwing parties into a money making business.
For what I do, weddings, banquets and some corporate work, it’s a no brainier!
There are many choices will sound better than JBL JRX and PRX lines. Bose will definitely sound better than the JRXs
Bose will sound better than any JBL up untill the VRX… then IMO it would still sound better… but some people might differ in opinion at that point (but not me- Bose L1’s rule).