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Stage 7 Software & Gear Course 1 of 6

Amps, Speakers and PA

Intermediate 13 lessons · 1 h 24 min

The most watched gear lesson on the channel is about linking up amplifiers, which tells you how often this goes wrong. Matching amps to speakers, what bridging means, where to put the boxes in a big room, and the arithmetic you cannot avoid.

By the end of this course you will be able to

  • Match an amplifier to a pair of speakers without damaging either
  • Say what bridging does and when to use it
  • Set up an active PA and a passive rig
  • Place speakers sensibly in a hall or a large room
  • Work out what power you actually need

Lessons

  1. Linking up your amplifiers

    4:35

  2. Setting up an active speaker

    6:59

  3. Three ways to connect speakers

    3:19

  4. Plugging a two-way active PA together

    9:50

  5. What bridging an amplifier means

    5:58

  6. Speakers, amps and Ohm's law

    3:54

  7. What size speakers and amp to buy

    6:00

  8. Choosing speakers for DJ, PA or band use

    12:45

  9. Setting up a large PA

    5:55

  10. Speaker placement in a hall or gym

    8:49

  11. Setting a graphic EQ

    Optional 10:04

  12. Talking over the music on a microphone

    Optional 3:22

  13. Voltage switches - leave them alone

    Optional 2:52

The stages are the way through

Below this line is the back catalogue, newest first. Useful for browsing, but it is not a course - the videos are in the order they were filmed, not the order to learn them in. Work the stages instead: each one assumes the one before it.

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