Panic! Advice urgently needed RE PA stage monitor

VellaJ · Aug 30, 2013

So I've just found out that we have a gig at the Wits Spring Party tonight, and the place has asked that we bring our PA. Surprise, Mofo!

Now this is ok, except we have no monitor because we're poor. We aren't being paid for it AFAIK so I don't want to hire one for R350, even if I can find a place with stock at this late stage. Do we think I could use my Ibanez TSA15 guitar amp as a monitor? It'll only be vocals, and in the worst case scenario, bass...

Suggestions? Help!

Psean · Aug 30, 2013

Check your inbox. I know someone who might be able to help out.

Psean · Aug 30, 2013

Do you guys have a PA and are only short a monitor, or do you have nothing?

DaFiz · Aug 30, 2013

Absolutely yes. I also do a fair amount of compromising... M drummer has access to a powered mixing desk and some Cerwyn Vega 15" speakers,
yet getting them here in the rainy weather is a problem. I use the 150W 4 channel PV mixer more often then not and for a monitor...
the Behringer 120W bass amp... and it makes a luvly monitor indeed ?

VellaJ · Aug 31, 2013

Psean wrote: Check your inbox. I know someone who might be able to help out.

Thanks, Psean, yeah we were only short the monitor. I was just a bit worried about borrowing stuff from people considering the number of drunk students at the gig.

DaFiz wrote: Absolutely yes. I also do a fair amount of compromising... M drummer has access to a powered mixing desk and some Cerwyn Vega 15" speakers,
yet getting them here in the rainy weather is a problem. I use the 150W 4 channel PV mixer more often then not and for a monitor...
the Behringer 120W bass amp... and it makes a luvly monitor indeed ?

Sounds like a good rig. Unfortunately the TSA is only a 15 watter, so I'm not sure it would have coped in the end after all. In the end, Music Mate Cresta managed to organise a good deal for me on a 200W powered QTX speaker, so I bought that. Frivolous perhaps, but at least we won't face the problem again, and it's a good piece of kit.

Thanks the the help, guys!