Solo acoustic musician needs new PA for corporate/wedding gigs
I have a budget of about $1000-1500, I’d like to stay close to $1k if possible. I perform acoustic guitar and sing without backing tracks, and would like to know about options for speakers to amplify my setup. Usually performing for about 75-125 people and in rooms varying in size from banquet halls to small dining areas. Mainly needing decent sound dispersion for larger areas - not sure if I need multiple speakers or if one speaker + my amp can do the job - they have been fine so far but I know it’s not ideal. I currently use a shitty alto powered 10” speaker to amplify my fishman loudbox artist guitar amp. I know it’s bad, I need some options for a better speaker setup. My amp has a DI out and I just send an xlr out to whatever sound system I need.
I have a few considerations -
- Sound quality - I’m coming from bottom end alto speaker and it’s gotten me a ton of gigs.. so I want to upgrade and make it sound as good as possible but also don’t stress too much about top of the line because this little speaker has gotten me throughyears of gigging already. (my amp and guitar setup sound phenomenal, all of the eq is done there.)
- Control and convenience - I like the idea of controlling volume and some eq from my phone across a corporate/wedding space so I don’t have to get up to mess with things.
Honestly don’t know what I’m missing, so if there are other things you recommend considering I’d love to hear them.