Opinions on equipment+acoustics on large rooms


Hello gurus.

I would like some advice in selecting equipment for playing
music (mainly international folk) to an audience of 100+ people in a large room (60L x 30W x 18H), puplic school type
with cement block walls and no carpeting.
How many watts RMS am I going to need?
What kind of speakers? Any ideas to improve acoustics in such a room?
Would hunging curtains on the wall behind the speakers help?

Thank you in advance.
diavlos

Showing 1 response by cornfedboy

unless they're all gonna' dance, you need to figure out how to plug in 100+ pairs of head phones. alternatively, you can issue everyone in the audiance an acoustic panel and have em' hold them up, arms outstretched, whilst standing around the optimal perimeter (establihed by trial-and-error); anybody remaining after the panels are handed out should be able to hear ok. and dance, if the spirit moves em'. fact is, you probably ain't gonna' get this space to sound very good unless you hire a pro sound group to set it up. -cfb