Friday, September 16, 2011

Various Kinds of Public Address Systems

  The simplest of all public address systems includes a microphone, a mixer cum amplifier which is modestly powered and is actually a mixer and an amplifier which is housed in one cabinet and at least one loudspeaker. Simple sound equipment hire London such as this that provides power ranging from 50 to 200 watts is usually used in small places like churches, bars and school auditoriums. A CD player, radio or other kind of sound source is connected to the PA system hire that you opt for so that the music plays through the system.

 

Public address systems are characteristically made up of input sources, signal routers and preamplifiers, amplifiers, monitoring and control equipment as well as loudspeakers. By input sources one means the CD players and the microphones that supply sound input to the PA system hire that you choose. The input sources are passed to the signal routers and preamplifiers that decide the zones to which the audio signal is passed on. The pre-amplified signals are thereafter sent to the amplifiers. Based on the regulations in each country, the amplifiers might amplify the audio signals to speaker line level of 50V, 70V or 100V. The control equipment checks the speaker lines and amplifiers for any faults before it gets to the loudspeakers.

 

Some public address systems might have speakers that can cover a whole campus whether it is that of a college, university, industrial site or an outdoor complex like an athletic stadium. In order to broadcast sound to locations out of doors, horn loudspeakers are often made use of. For events at large venues like pop music concerts, you need to choose a more sophisticated PA system hire to provide reproduction of live sound. For a concert setting, you normally have the main system and a monitor system each of which consists of microphones, mixer, amplifiers, speakers and sound process equipment.

 

If you choose a PA hire London for a live concert then you will have a line array speaker system besides subwoofer cabinets. The main PA system hire also called the Front of House or FOH and which provides the audience with an amplified sound, usually has several powerful amplifiers that drive a series of huge, heavy-duty loudspeakers together with subwoofers which are low-frequency speaker cabinets, high-range horns and full-range speaker cabinets. While a big club might make use of 3000 to 5000 watts of power for the main speakers, as much as 10,000 watts or more might be used for public address systems for an outdoor concert.

 

All public address systems have a promise for audio feedback which happens when sound from the speakers gets back to the microphone after which it gets amplified again and goes through the speakers once again. If you opt for sound engineer hire besides the PA system hire, he will take the necessary steps to make sure that directional microphones are not pointed in the direction of the speakers, lowering the onstage volume levels as well as gain levels where the feedback is happening by making use of a parametric equalizer, notch filter or graphic equalizer.

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