Is a PA system good for playing music at a party?
Question:
I recently got and appartment, and I am want a music system that I can plug my ipod into and that gets pretty loud. I have a system like that i bought from best buy like 3 years ago. but its more for personal use, instead of a party like setting.
Is a PA system good for this kind of thing?
Answer: I would say no, no way what-so-ever!
PA's are comprised of amps and speakers (particularly) made for enhancing and magnifying the voice, not music. If you've ever noticed, some PA's will only have those V shaped speakers on tall stands, made to project the voice above the crowds heads, what IS that?
You need a SOUND SYSTEM, my friend. Something with 3 way speakers, plus sub-woofers. You need tweeters for the high notes and woofers for the lows, you need mid-range for the voices and an equalizer to modulate it all.
It's my opinion that if you want your party to fail, go ahead with that PA and I'll bet you'll hear more grumbling from the 3 people who stayed than you will hear music. LOL
Home recording can be an entertaining and rewarding pursuit, but it may also turn into a rewarding business! Only one or two years back, studio quality recordings were only done in sound-proof studios with thousands of clams worth of equipment. There are some basics to be absorbed, though. First what do you need? You can spend a ton of cash on gear that you don't really need. I recommend that if you're just starting out, you don't buy any of it. The least expensive and easiest way to get studio-quality recordings is with a computer that was made in the past...say...10 years (this being 2010).
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Then you want to take a look at software. You'll need a multi-track recorder and a sound editor. You'll be able to find software for free that compares well in quality with the big and dear brand names. I recommend trying Audacity, which coincidentally, is BOTH a multi-track recorder and sound editor in one. It's absolutely free and can be downloaded from the open source playground Sourceforge.
After you have your software, do some recording save it as mp3 or wav format, then put your earphones on and turn the volume up. Listen for hisses and clicks in the final version, and notice how far you have got to turn it to get it loud. If there are plenty of hisses and clicks, this is sometimes known as a 'dirty' or 'noisy' recording. Hear me now and believe me later...NOISE IS PUBLIC ENEMY #1! And it is always with us. Many programs will edit out the noise, but when they do they can also adversely affect the over-all quality. Why? Because in editing out the noise, it also filters out part of the signal...the stuff you WANT! The less noise you have to deal with, the better noise-reduction programs work. I know that sounds obvious, but look at it this way. Noise reduction can completely eliminate soft, low-volume noise without leaving any audible yuckiness. But as the percentage of noise in the audio goes up, the yuckiness that is left behind gets worse and worse.
That is the reason why it is so vital to try and get as clean a recording as possible the 1st time around! Prevention is the key. See my article on fighting noise for more information on that. One reason I recommend starting out with a $5.00 PC mic is that by learning to get the least amount of noise from that thing, you'll know how to get the best out of every mic you ever use after that. For now, you can help yourself out by getting the mic as close to the sound source as possible, and trying to record in as quiet a space as possible.
Once you have recorded your audio, listen to it in head phones, ear-buds, or on speakers. Actually, do all 3 and notice the difference. After that just save the audio as either an mp3 or wav file (there are lots of sound formats, but those 2 are just the most common). Use the mp3 for audio you want to put on the web. Use the wav for burning CDs on your computer, or for adding audio to video, etc.
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