Northern Beaches PA Hire winter roundup

This has been a busy an diverse winter for us with plenty of various projects under way from Bikram Yoga,  to Tour De France parties,  an plenty of projection advertising projects all happening with the regular weddings and party hire each week.
We won't be at Entech this year as I am away surfing the  Maldives this week.
Any enquiries please call lightstoparty.com.au  as they are running things in my absence.
Will be returning on the 4th of August
Thanks Joel 0407 49 89 70

Northern Beaches PA Hire and Flavours of Spain Autumn event Manly

Here is the Video of the Paella cooking competition in Manly Flavours Of Spain Competition which we organised the sound stage for in the Autumn.
a great fun day out with some amazing food

Hardware and General and Warringah Council team up with Northern Beaches PA Hire

Hardware and General Winter Expo

We ran the Audio recently for the H&g Winter xpo at the yard in Winbourne Ave Brookvale

the new Behringer B112W Speakers were employed for their first corporate outing with the  Behringer Wireless mic System.

It sounded great and the company were very happy with the price and power of the small system to deliver to such a large area commentary and background music for the 4 hour Expo from various suppliers in the area.

Warringah Council hires Northern Beaches PA Hire to run audio at recent debate

We used QSC K 12's and 4 wireless mic's to liven up a debate over Long Reef Surf Clubhouse, discussing the future of this iconic beach reserve, emotions were high and i was hovering over the mute button on the mixer for the 3 hour debate.

Wharfedale Titan 12d price markdown means Northern Beaches PA Hire can pass on savings to customers

Wharfedale 12d sale on now at Northern Beaches PA Hire

             Call  0407 498 970  or go to northernbeachespahire.com.au  

These are a great everyday workhorse speaker that are easy to use and sound awesome, punchy with tight bass and a 2 channel mixer on the back they are light weight but not on sound or value!   

Vinyl, CD, MP3 what is the difference when you play music on the Northern Beaches of Sydney

At Northern Beaches PA Hire  we are Vinyl lovers, Vinyl couch, Vinyl clothes and Vinyl records, since 1979 we have purchased the 45, then the 12" and always the gate fold album, coloured vinyl, picture disk , laser disk,  Beta Max, Mini Disk, you name it.

Napster, Wav then MP3  have all come and gone to a degree.

Now we have Pirate Bay, Ogg, Vorbis and Flacc

The future will be filled with new and amazing ideas and file formats, the question is when do you get off the bus draw a line in the sand and listen to the music.
Latley i have been loving Mix Cloud, jumping on and hearing some great tunes whether old or new put together by people who care enough to upload and let the music play, been some great sounds from Greg Wilson and Dj Vadim , along with Hong Kong Ping Pong, truly great music.

Have a look at this guy and make your judgment on the health of modern music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPxQsSRsVvw

all the best Northern Beaches PA Hire

The real wattage of rental speakers on the Northern Beaches of Sydney

Powered Party and PA Speakers hiring on the Northern Beaches of Sydney what do you get for your money?

A few years ago you could walk into Harvey Norman in Balgowlah and see these amazing sound systems made from genuine plastic that looked somewhere between  a Centurions helmet and a Star Wars Storm trooper advertising 1000 watts of peak power.

Many people bought these systems that have long passed into council collection folklore, as they were not what they claimed to be.
Since then we have had the D class amplifier revolution which first allowed the lower end and now the higher end suppliers to re badge from Continuous power (RMS) to Peak Power (PMPO), when advertising their amazing new products.
Peak power is the maximum level of power output that is measured during an observation period. Peak power here refers to the maximum amount of power an electronic component can possibly handle for an instant without damage.
Not something to try at home or in a hire environment, be aware some hire companies now advertise these figures and the number of people these (PMPO) systems can be heard by.
Not good when your hire company will charge you for damage to the 1000 watt (PMPO) speaker when your coverage is less than half the specified range or less. 

The term "Music Power" has been used in relation to both amplifiers and loudspeakers with some validity. When live music is recorded without amplitude compression or limiting, the resulting signal contains brief peaks of very much higher amplitude (20 dB or more) than the mean, and since power is proportional to the square of signal voltage their reproduction would require an amplifier capable of providing brief peaks of power around a hundred times greater than the average level. Thus the ideal 100-watt audio system would need to be capable of handling brief peaks of 10,000 watts in order to avoid clipping^{[citation needed]} (see Programme levels). Most loudspeakers are in fact capable of withstanding peaks of several times their continuous rating (though not a hundred times), since thermal inertia prevents the voice coils from burning out on short bursts. It is therefore acceptable, and desirable, to drive a loudspeaker from a power amplifier with a higher continuous rating several times the steady power that the speaker can withstand, but only if care is taken not to overheat it; this is difficult, especially on modern recordings which tend to be heavily compressed and so can be played at high levels without the obvious distortion that would result from an uncompressed recording when the amplifier started clipping.
An amplifier can be designed with an audio output circuitry capable of generating a certain power level, but with a power supply unable to supply sufficient power for more than a very short time, and with heat sinking that will overheat dangerously if full output power is maintained for long. This makes good technical and commercial sense, as the amplifier can handle music with a relatively low mean power, but with brief peaks; a high 'music power' output can be advertised (and delivered), and money saved on the power supply and heat sink. Program sources that are significantly compressed are more likely to cause trouble, as the mean power can be much higher for the same peak power. Circuitry which protects the amplifier and power supply can prevent equipment damage in the case of sustained high power operation.
More sophisticated equipment usually used in a professional context has advanced circuitry which can handle high peak power levels without delivering more average power to the speakers than they and the amplifier can handle safely.

Hire Companies often Offer Powered speakers please read below.

Active speakers comprise two or three speakers per channel, each fitted with its own amplifier, and preceded by an electronic crossover filter to separate the low-level audio signal into the frequency bands to be handled by each speaker. This approach enables complex active filters to be used on the low level signal, without the need to use passive crossovers of high power handling capability but limited rolloff and with large and expensive inductors and capacitors. An additional advantage is that peak power handling is greater if the signal has simultaneous peaks in two different frequency bands. A single amplifier has to handle the peak power when both signal voltages are at their crest; as power is proportional to the square of voltage, the peak power when both signals are at the same peak voltage is proportional to the square of the sum of the voltages. If separate amplifiers are used, each must handle the square of the peak voltage in its own band. For example, if bass and midrange each has a signal corresponding to 10 W of output, a single amplifier capable of handling a 40 W peak would be needed, but a bass and a treble amplifier each capable of handling 10 W would be sufficient. This is relevant when peaks of comparable amplitude occur in different frequency bands, as with wideband percussion and high-amplitude bass notes.
For most audio applications more power is needed at low frequencies. This requires a high-power amplifier for low frequencies (e.g., 200 watts for 20–200 Hz band), lower power amplifier for the midrange (e.g., 50 watts for 200 to 1000 Hz), and even less the high end (e.g. 5 watts for 1000–20000 Hz). Proper design of a bi/tri amplifier system requires a study of driver (speaker) frequency response and sensitivities to determine optimal crossover frequencies and power amplifier powers.

There is a lot to think about here and some of it can be dull call Northern Beaches PA Hire on 0407498970
if you have any questions or have been hired the wrong speaker for the job.

New Behringer Bluetooth Wireless speaker system hiring now at Northern Beaches PA Hi

Hire now at Northern Beaches PA Hire
Hire now at Bondi PA Hire

At Bondi/ Northern Beaches PA Hire we are a skeptical bunch we only use what we know and what has been reliable in the past with uncompromising sound quality and reliability.

JBL, QSC and RCF are our main brands backed up by the popular Wharfedale 12d party speakers with Ipod connection.

Galactic music phoned and said you must see and hear the new Behringer B112 Bluetooth 500 watt speaker system. After trying to put Tom off with various other priorities that could not be avoided he arrived, with the speaker, i set it up alongside the Wharfedale 12D and a QSC K10 to get a comparison.

Tom was not fazed and we went through a test of my two and then when it came time for the Behringer b112 he said "stop you don't need the cables its Bluetooth"! This threw me for a few seconds so i put the connection cables down and went to my Bluetooth settings on the phone , ther it was ready to pair, a couple of bleeps and we were synced, "this is too easy i was saying to myself".

And that was it i was playing my tracks from the phone with no annoying cables, and it sounded great, plenty of bass and headroom without distortion very impressive, i could also connect to the second speaker via Bluetooth with no link cables, my partner from Bondi PA Hire was impressed saying "Bye Bye Wharfedale's" and to be fair they do sound that little bit better maybe due to volume.

They are not going to replace the K10s, PRX 612's or The RCF HD 12's that we carry but for fun and ease of use these were great sounding boxes with dual mic or line inputs and EQ on the back too.

So if you are having a party and want to amaze your friends even have different music playing in different parts of the house or mansion then these are what you need, plenty of power to annoy the neighbours and keep the party rocking.

Hiring now at $50 per unit from us at Northern Beaches Speaker Hire or Northern Beaches PA Hire.