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I am just curious about what speaker/monitor/amp setup everybody uses for live performance situations with their px-5s...(not interested in your other keyboards...just how you get your px sound out to the crowd)

Currently, I am using a Motion Sound amp that I really don't care for and may sell...thinking about running stereo sound if I can figure out what to buy...suggestions are very welcomed!

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Small 200-watt powered stereo 4-channel mixer, with built-in reverb/echo effects and efx sends, independent hi/low eq for each channel and graphic equalizer for master control into 2 10" speaker cabinets with hi-freq. horns and ducted bass ports. Phantom powered inputs for mics-let's me connect one key in stereo plus 2 mics or 2 monophonic keys and mics.  Also can use this for connecting computer audio/CD if I need to provide "canned' music for a venue. Fills a 50 x 100 room no problem. Picked up the entire system for a little more than 200 bucks. Used to use a Fender Passport portable system. didn't have as much bass (I think the largest speaker was a 6") but could fill my school's gym/auditorium to the point of pain (I was often tempted especially during "talent" shows I had to set up :P) had phantom power and better eq controls-hi/mid/low, master. I think it was a 6-channel. I used it set up multiple mics, my keyboard and again, canned music I needed for my shows. Probably overkill for small venues but only weighed about 50 pounds and closed up quickly into one suitcase style PA and a setting to kill inputs for mic-overs (using mic would kill other audio channels-handy for big venues).

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I use a Fishman Loudbox 180 watt amp that has 2 input channels. The amp has a DI out for each channel and a mix out that I use to send to my in ears. I play fiddle on the other channel. My in ears have 2 channels as well, so the sound man will run a house mix to one channel and my mix will be in the other. This way I can turn myself up and down on the stage without yelling to the soundman. The Fishman Loudbox 180w will fill most medium sized venues such as the casinos I perform in, and it weighs a whopping 29 pounds. Most of the time, I don't use the amp except for the inputs and outputs, but it is nice to be able to play if something happened to the sound system. Also, I use the amp to check my sound before each performance, because I'm always earlier than the soundman, and as we all know, there are no speakers on the px-5s which is a good thing for me since I crave light weight items to take with me on a gig!  :)

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Until recently, a pair of EV ZxA1s, now a Center Point Stereo Spacestation V.3 + a Behringer B1200D Pro Sub. I feed a small Alto mixer or a Samson SM10. I monitor onstage in stereo and send a mono feed to FOH when necessary using an aux feed from the mixer into a direct box - just in case the ground needs lifting. Stereo out of the mixer into the sub, filtered at 100Hz, then to the SS  V.3. I loved my EVs, but the stereo image onstage is much more satisfying with the Spacestation. Highly recommended. 

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B.J.Love, please expand about the space station v3...I read the Sweetwater reviews, and it seems too good to be true... is it really that much better than everything else????

There is a HUGE thread about this amp on the Keyboard Corner. Most of the people who have tried it are blown away about how well it works for them.

 

http://forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/forums/18/1

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