Yesterday, for the first time ever, I used my PA to carry spoken word to the masses.<\/p>\n
Set it up in the middle of a park in the middle of Pioneer Square, and a rally (the seattle radical women something or other ;-)) used it to speak.<\/p>\n
It was a really bizarre experience. I mean, this thing sits in my basement, and I use it all the time in the band(s) that I’m in, but I’d never used it for spoken word before.<\/p>\n
It covered a crowd of 300 people, pretty adequately.<\/p>\n
I don’t think it could do 1000 – towards the back of the crowd things were definately getting kind of quiet – but still. Bizarre.<\/p>\n
I actually spoke, for about 30 seconds – having a kilowatt and a half behind your voice tends to give you excessive confidence. P. says that what I said wasn’t even vaugely on topic, but seemed like a lot of people liked it anyway. Or else they thought they better cheer for the guy who busted his butt to get them sound – who knows.<\/p>\n
Anyway, setup only took about ten minutes, not bad at all. I plan to continue offering my amplification services to rallies.. <\/p>\n