Amp rental

[kerplunk182]

hey hey i'm kinda new to this equipment rental thing and i was wondering what's the price range for renting amps for a day or 2? Like say a marshall halfstack or a tube amp. Enough to amplify a school hall. And do i have to provide my own transportation for the big ass amp? O and which studio's rates are good.

 

[van_halen]

can try dan enterprise?

 

[patrickeatworld]

i rented some equipments from fourtones before, transport provided. 2 guitar amps, 1 bass amp and a drumset. 550dollars in total. maybe you can try calling them fourtones? haha

 

[kerplunk182]

patrickeatworld: whoa. Tight budget man. What amps were they anyway?

 

[MadWerewolfBoy]

Try luthermusic works for a bench mark on the prices. They are quite reasonable. Alternatively, you can also try to get equipments from mike (mikemann) from... mikemann studios! =D

 

[patrickeatworld]

two marshall(s) and uh, ibanez if im not wrong. try to negotiate with fourtones?

 

[kerplunk182]

any other recommendations? Preferably a cab+head Need the amp for 2 days (sound check on the previous day) And of course reasonable price that my school would pay. Note that the amp has to project throughout the school's enclosed air conditioned hall.

 

[Gr3yF0x]

boons give good rates if when you rent for more than a day.

 

[kerplunk182]

the aunty at boons is quite scary. but no harm calling

 

[shredrat]

Hi.Does your school pay for the rental fees of the amp?

 

[soft]

kerplunk182

Actually, you dont need a big big guitar amp to fill the whole hall. You should use a microphone to pick up the amp's signal and send it to the hall's main speakers. This way, you can 'mix' the sound better between the guitars, bass, vocals and drums.

* dont use a 60" LCD to present your powerpoint project when you can use the hall's projector instead.

 

[Z3r0_G]

That's if the school bothers to actually go mic up the stuff.

 

[MadWerewolfBoy]

There's some wisdom in what James has said. However, You would like to check with your school FSV people and find the specs of the house PA/Loudspeakers/monitors.

Some schools havea tight budget for these kinda stuff so the equipment might not be able to handle concert volumes for the hall well.

Take for example, CJC... Everything is so freakin budget, my hall's 4 loudspeakers will peak even at puny volumes, it will never be able to handle a rock concert for 30 mins before blowing (as quoted by fellow FSV peeps). For our annual Rockefella concerts, we have to rent external instuments/amps as well as sound reinforcement (PA, 4 loudspeakers, 4 subwoofers and 3 monitors) cause our house shit is just crap. Even the sound engineers didn't want to connect and utilise the house PA for some sound reinforcement cause it wasn't worth the trouble.

One thing to note is, you can't judge a speaker's power by its size cause my sch auditorium's loudspeakers are definately not "small". and Bose's cute small speakers are definately not "weak".

 

[niteblade]

its quite ex to rent equipment

my school paid a few hundred just to rent a mixer and stage monitors

im not really sure about exact figures cos i wasnt paying but its still gonna cost abit

 

[jupzones]

be prepared to pay, good equipment does not come cheap.

it's best if you can get the school to fund.

i had an event in my school last year with an external sound crew, they brought their own pa system to mic up the amps and everything they provided.

the cost was 1k a day, but it was definitely worth it as all the bands sounded great.


amps provided were voxac30 and roland jc120 if im not mistaken.

 

[visa]

i strongly reccommend boon's. one of their amps' electrical plug burned out, and they replaced it immediately (drove a replacement down straight away) no questions, no extra charge.

awesome fellas

 

[loneeurope]

SOFT is right.

Firstly you have to check out the setting of your school hall - size, equipment available, then determine what is best. The volume between the drums, amps must mix well. or else it will sound crappy...

 

[kerplunk182]

Um. There won't be drums. Just guitar and vocals. I can't check what the equipment in the hall is cause they're closed for construction. But from what i can remember, their PA speakers are peavey tho.

 

[Godspeed64]

i strongly reccommend boon's. one of their amps' electrical plug burned out, and they replaced it immediately (drove a replacement down straight away) no questions, no extra charge.

awesome fellas

Lol.. The fact that the plug actually burned is disheartening isn't it?
But quality service!

 

[soft]

If just guitar and voice, you definitely can do with a small amp. What do you use at home? Just point a microphone at the amp and feed it to the hall's system. Just make sure the hall system is not "under renovation" too.