THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULDN'T USE THIS SPEAKER FOR ALL EVENTS

DJs, behind me I have five different speaker configurations that we use here in my company Fusion Sound and Lighting for all the different events we got. And I just want to debunk the myth off the get-go. There is not a one-size-fits-all speaker that can work for everything from your small get-together ceremony cocktail all the way up to a 500, if not a 1,000 person event. And that's what we're going to go through in this video right here is the fact that there are different speakers, different tools for different jobs. And that's how you need to approach the speakers and the configurations that you purchase for your own personal DJ setup or even your own company. So let's get into it. So I'm not going to go necessarily through each speaker configuration that we have. I'll go through it a little bit at the end. But we have five different kind of speaker setups that we've landed on in our company as kind of our flagship speaker arrays that we are taking to the different types of events we do. I would say we probably can cut it down to four though. But I want to talk about in general, guys, when you guys are considering your company, what you do for events, you need to look at what is the 80% that you do. And a lot of DJs I talk to don't even know what the 80%. How many people are you DJing for on average? Is it 100 people? 120? 150? 200? And then also what is the size space we're DJing in? Is it a huge space? Are we looking at big banquet halls that could probably hold 300 to 400? But you know, you're doing a lot of 200, 100 person events. And then also clientele wise, what are they expecting? Are they expecting in your face bass? Or are they expecting just a good quality sound setup? Honestly, most of the time clients don't actually know. That's where you need to consider buying your first and your main speaker setup. And then consider the auxiliaries that you might need down the line. And do you even need to own them? Because a lot of this stuff, if I didn't run a DJ company with multiple different types of events, we're doing 200 plus events a year right now. And we do everything from big corporate to small stuff. So we need the variety of speakers you see behind me. But if I just looked at my personal DJ events, I need a sound system that can do 200 people solid. I also need a ceremony speaker that can do ceremony solid. And if I ever needed bigger stuff, like when we go to do these big high school dances, I would rent it. I would contract out a different company to rent that bigger speaker configuration. So many people get it wrong that you can buy a one size fits all speaker. You can't. This, let's just look at our example right here. This is the LD Maui 44 G2. One of my favorite speakers possible that literally is out there. And it was honestly one of the winners in the speaker wars. Really go watch speaker wars to see the different comparisons of the different speakers we had. But from a price to output standpoint, it's really freaking good. But this thing caps out about 200 people. It's just a little shy of the output level I like for my events, which is why I went with a little bit bigger. But this speaker, of course, when you go over 200, it's going to struggle. And you might be able to do 250 and get away with it, but you'd be fine. But for 100 person ceremony, you would use something a little bit smaller. And a lot of times on the smaller side of things, you're using speakers that you bought originally when you first started. When we talked about the Exeton 1503s, you know, that's a great intro beginner level DJ speaker, or even EVZLX15 is a great intro speaker that you can use for ceremonies when you first get started. So you guys got to build your systems around what it is you need. And yes, old school speakers, we can use a 15 inch top and subwoofers. For smaller events, we can just use the two tops. I think that school of thought is over. I used to use the JBL SRX15 tops with the VRX18 subs. And every time I went to just bring the two tops, I was always missing bass because I lost the sub. So I think in nowadays, one, column arrays are in. That's the new thing. And we now have high power column arrays. So really, guys, the biggest thing is thinking about what is the tool you need for the job. So let's go through some of the tools that I have here and why I chose them for our company. And a lot of it just comes down to we do the speaker wars that we've been filming for you guys. We've been doing it for years here in our own warehouse with our own speakers, listening to our buddy speakers. We just never put it on YouTube. So we have five different speaker arrays. And really, you can break it down to four different ones. And they all fit different niches. And even for you guys that say, you know, you're going to buy this big RCF NXL 24 or 21 inch sub. That system doesn't sound as good for like 100 person wedding. When you're running that thing at like 10% output, this 28 sounds better. Because this speakers like this. They like to be at that 50% plus volume mark. They don't sound as good at low volume because the drivers aren't able to fully move. So let's start with going through all the tools I need in my company and explain some of the thought process that goes behind them. And going to be honest, a lot of the thought process behind a lot of the speakers we got is different for every single person in every single company. There's some considerations on just in general, brands and the things you bring in in terms of a maintenance and how readily available they are in your area. One thing I like to always consider with the speakers is what do the speaker or the DJs around me, what speaker companies are they using? Because in a pinch, if I need another speaker, I need another sound system. I want to use something that is familiar to me. Especially when we're talking some of the bigger stuff. If I want to like pair a bunch of subs or I want more tops like the RCF NXL 24s, I got a buddy here that owns 10 of them. So if I ever needed more of them to do a large corporate scale event, I have the same speaker to basically get bigger. A lot of people in my area have the 44s, they have the 28s. So that's kind of why we went down that route. Also brand kind of loyalty across the board. If you choose one or two brands, you're using similar interfaces. It's easier to train your staff on them. There's a lot of benefits that come with that. And also if you're at the scale that we're at, if you're buying a lot of speakers, you can become a dealer. So you don't even have to be a dealer to sell to other companies, but there are minimum speaker orders that you have to place. Like we have to be spending $10,000 on speakers every year. We're able to do that with our company because we are expanding so rapidly. But also we do sell them on both lighting USA as well. It's part of the caveat. So that's kind of why we chose the speaker lines we did with RCF and our LD systems because we're also dealers RCF coming soon. So let's go through why I bought all these different speakers. This speaker is probably one of the longest running speakers in our lineup. And as far as I know, it's actually discontinued right now. So if you want an LD Maui 5 Go, go buy them right now. They're on like Sweetwater and stuff. I know of being an LD dealer, they've discontinued them. I can't get any more of them. So I'm already kind of looking at other options because it's discontinued. I'm hoping LD comes out with a new option. I know they, I think they just came out with the, uh, the NE12. So the NE lineup is kind of their new battery powered lineup. We might be going with something different. I like the EV stuff. We'll see. But ceremonies, I need battery. I need battery powered across the board. Ceremony, cocktail. I need it to be super quick, super easy to set up and be battery powered because that limitation of battery or of power really strict, makes it so hard to set up at a lot of outdoor ceremonies. A lot of cocktail spaces are outdoor. The battery of this is amazing. It's six to seven hours of battery. This top on this thing is solid for small things. This speaker is an eight inch sub. It's got a little array here. It's very portable. It's battery powered. And that's what it needs to do for me. In a cocktail ceremony situation, I just need something to be able to put some sound there. And typically I'm only looking at about a hundred people that I'm actually shooting this music for. Ceremonies can get a little bit larger. So I might need a second one, or I might need to use my bigger speaker system. But in general, this tool right here works really well because it is a battery powered tool. It puts just enough output of sound to do that small event. And it's really good at background music and it sounds phenomenal. Those are why this speaker is a great tool for us at our arsenal. Moving down the lineup, I'm just going to talk about these two together. This is the LD44 and the LD28. And honestly, the LD28 is my favorite of the two because it is more versatile in our company and is an amazing tool. I made a full review on this on the speaker. There's a whole digital mixer version of this that makes it even better. This is such a versatile tool in our arsenal to do events. This speaker right here can also do a cocktail hour. Now it needs power. So, you know, for mobile DJ events, it's not as great. But for corporate events where we need cocktail speaker with a wireless microphone plugged into it or maybe a podium mic, this thing's awesome. And the mixer version also works really well for that. It also has plenty of output to be comparable to some of these other speakers in a backfill, side fill situation. It maybe is not going to be the main speaker in a large corporate event where it's the main ones right on stage projecting the main volume. But it does really good at complementing that main system in side fill, backfill and outfill positions. It also works really well at school dances for outfill positions to keep the sound going around because in different events, we're putting sound in different areas at different levels. In a school dance or a corporate event, a lot of times we need louder sound on the dance floor area and quieter sound on the outside so people can hear all the announcements. I can't say enough about this speaker. It has great output. It sounds phenomenal. It has solid bass. It's just really versatile. I mean, we do corporate events where we bring four of these because it's like a long 300, 400 feet long event fashion show and we only need the sound to shoot about 40 feet. It doesn't need to shoot far, but we need to go really wide. So this also has a very wide dispersion. We can put four of those together. Just an amazing tool. And then even on the DJ side, if you're a DJ and most of your weddings are 100 people or 120, 150, which is what most of our DJs in our company are doing. Myself, I'm doing more of the upper end weddings, more of the 200 person plus, 150, 200 plus, or I'm just dealing with higher end clientele that expect a little bit louder of a sound or, you know, they might be a little bit specific to the EDM niche. So that's why for my personal events, I actually choose a little bit bigger of a speaker just because of what it is. But I do weddings every year that I take this sound system out to and all of the other four DJs in our company use this system right here for all the weddings. They take two of them. Now, when they get a wedding that is, you know, 120, 150 plus, they bump right up to the 44s. These are traditionally Marcellus speakers. These are the speakers that I use for the longest time because they fit that really good niche of 150 to 200. I still love them. They're still amazing. Marcellus uses them for all of his weddings. They give you extra bass. So if you're normally a heavy bass DJ, you DJ a lot of EDM. This sub is honestly, arguably in this lineup as one of the best sounding subs that's here. And it's just a little bit louder than this guy. It's a great tool. Basically, honestly, if you look at these two, these two tops sound almost identical. This one just got more bass. So if you need that, it's a great tool. In our company, these tools all fill different places and they're really great. Now, the one speaker setup that I would say is kind of not necessarily needed is this one right here, which is my personal new DJ setup, which is the RCF AX15 with the NXL 14 top. These two right here could fill the same gap. They honestly can. This one just gives you a little more output on the tops. The subs are arguably about the same, but it just gives you a little bit more output on the tops, which I personally like to be able to cut my mic through the volume. And it just gives you a little more high end. As we continue down our lineup, now we're getting into what I would say, nearing big boy territory. Because the speaker arrays, the tools that you can use for your events continue. There are more options. There are more things that do bigger events. In our company, we cap out at about, you know, 600 to 1,000 people. And a lot of times when we're talking 1,000 people, it's a corporate event, and we're able to use like six speakers to accomplish that. Or these guys. This setup right here, this is the RCF NXL 24 MK2s. This is the LD 21 inch subs. You could also use the RCF 18 subs. I just personally like these 21s a lot. We got two of them right now. Two more in transit to be here. Because these subs are phenomenal. And you really want to have dedicated 18 inch and 21 inch subs when you're talking this realm. Because the amount of bass you need for a prom is different than a corporate event. Even though the amount of people is the same, the amount of bass is different. Proms love a lot of good bass. So four of these stacked together is amazing. Does a lot of good job on bass. Corporate events, I only need two of these. I don't need it to be over the top bass heavy. This is where we get into kind of building out your bigger arrays. But as you can see, each one of these has a different purpose. Whenever we're talking an event that's 250 plus, maybe 300, we're instantly going to this speaker. Because these two of these tops right here can easily do 600 people. Believe it or not, I was shocked and we've done them before. If you go watch on Both Lighting USA, a combo, we did a corporate event where we brought the sound for my boy Brian B. And we literally only used two of these tops and two of these subs. 550 person DJ dance floor and it rocked the damn party. It was incredibly loud and we projected it through the whole entire venue with just those two tops. I personally would have liked to have had some outfills, but there was budget constraints. That's what we ended up working with. But the tool did absolutely amazing at what it was supposed to do, which is be loud enough that it can cut through 600 people talking and make sure that everyone is heard. The subs is just a matter of how much bass do you want. And two of these do phenomenal. If you put four of these together, holy crap, you got yourself an earthquaking bass heavy event, which is perfect for a lot of the proms we do, which are most of our proms are 300 to, we have I think two or three proms now that bring 800 to a thousand kids, sometimes more depending on the year, even in homecoming, they bring a thousand kids. It's insane. But like I said, beyond this is tools that I don't need. We built out our arsenal to handle 80% of all the events that we do. We do quite a lot of corporate events where we bring these speakers out. These go to, I think 30 to 40 events a year of the 200, 30 to 40 events, get these big speakers, which is plenty of what we need. It was worth the investment in getting this tool. Now we do do two events a year right now, one or two events a year that have over a thousand people. It does not make sense for me to add to my arsenal, a tool that can do over a thousand people at this time. That is when we're talking about concert PAs. That's when we might be able to get away with a bunch of these. We might rent more of these NXL 24 tops. So we have more volume or we might rent concert line arrays and bring in line arrays. We might need eight plus subwoofers. You know, we only have four. This is the considerations we need to make with our speaker setups when we are building them. And like I said, the overarching theme here guys is each speaker is a tool. That tool is a tool in your toolbox that you can use to do great sound at different events in different applications. Knowing the room size, the environment, the amount of people and the end goal are the four things you need to consider with your tools. How big is the room? Because room size changes a lot. How many people are we trying to play music to or speeches to et cetera? What is the environment? Are we indoors? Are we outdoors? Outdoor, you need more speaker than you do indoor. And lastly, what's the goal? The goal of a prom, like I said, is completely different than a corporate event. We can have a 600 person corporate event that is nothing but a gala and everyone just needs to hear speeches. We really don't need a single subwoofer for that event. A prom wants bass heavy music. We might need four subs. Each tool is different. Each tool has different applications. The 28s are a side fill speaker that compare with these other tools over here to help make our sound better. I need everybody that's literally in this industry to really consider what it is you use for your events. And honestly, sound is the most important thing at our events, good quality sound. And the way you get good quality sound is not by trying to get a one size fits all system. I personally tried to do it and I can tell you it failed. It was not great. The sound quality was drastically different at an event with two tops than it was with subs. And that has led me down the rabbit hole of this right here. There are different speakers that are different tools for different jobs. And that is the lesson for today. Hope you guys enjoyed it. Leave a comment down below and let me know what speaker tools are you using.