What good are your favorite artists if you can’t hear the concert speaker system that projects them? The more one thinks about sound, the weirder it becomes. It can’t exist without air, and you can’t hear it unless it’s close or loud enough, so it’s practically a resource – an important one, at that. Without it, we can’t laugh at the cute babbling of babies, enjoy the trilling of famished house cats or, perhaps most significantly, listen to music.
What speakers do concerts use? Among other sound equipment, an excellent concert speaker system is at the core of every great musical performance, allowing artists to display and celebrate all they have to offer directly in front of an excited audience. If you’re hosting a concert or planning a festival, we can show you how to find speakers with the highest volume, best sound, longest lifetimes and easiest setups.
What Makes a Concert Sound System Effective?
Speakers at concerts have the important job of projecting sound to a large audience, which includes the people in the back. But there’s more to this job than volume. Especially among speakers of the lowest quality, high volume is more likely to generate plenty of distortion. Also, from a logistical perspective, speakers should be easy to set up over the course of a tour, and they should endure decades of usage.
Let’s take a look at some of the speakers’ most important qualities: volume, quality, automation and longevity.
Volume
At small events, a simple loudspeaker may do the trick, but the biggest venues require the loudest speakers. Favoring a high-quality speaker over a loudspeaker can increase max volume by 50%. You should think twice before using a cheap speaker for a large or outdoor event, especially considering potential background noise. For optimal volume in big areas, max values among best speakers clock in at around 150 dB.
Quality
Without the right equipment, as volume increases, quality may decrease. The higher a speaker’s max volume, the greater the range within which that speaker can produce high-quality sound. Cheaper, older speakers generally produce more distortion no matter how low the volume.
The best concert speakers provide exceptional volume, quality, automation and longevity.
Automation
Before a concert, setting up speakers can take time. Crews need to adjust speakers correctly before placing them on the stage. If further adjustments are necessary, crews need to take the speakers down for fixing. But modern speakers often exhibit electronic capabilities so that crews can use remote controls to make adjustments from the floor of a concert hall.
Longevity
Speakers don’t last forever. They worsen as they age, and the cheapest ones don’t last long in the first place. If you’re planning on buying or renting speakers for an event, try to find the ones in their prime. The best speakers should last for decades if not a century.
What Makes Other Sound Equipment Effective?
If you’re planning a concert for all artists from EDM DJs to rock bands, you’ll need to rent a digital mixing console. Conventional equipment provides 40 to 80 digital input channels, while the best consoles can have up to 128 to maximize flexibility even for the most complex performances.
With dozens of auxiliary cables, hundreds of equalizers and effective full processing matrices, the best mixing consoles can accommodate vast differences in audio quality such that audiences can easily hear singing voices alongside loudest instruments.
Such performances may also benefit from high-quality subwoofers to maximize bass enough to feel as well as hear the music. Every legendary event needs some bass. Imagine Billie Jean without bass.
What if I Don’t Know How to Set Up My Concert Speaker System?
If you don’t know anything about the best speakers, don’t fret unless you’re a guitar. There are some rental vendors who have their own representatives travel and show crews how the technology works, no matter how advanced it is.
Don’t settle for vendors who won’t show you how anything works. If a provider of sound equipment is any good, there will be representatives who’re willing to go on tour with a band to set up equipment at every venue.
The best speakers are the easiest to set up. Quick rigging will allow you to set speakers up easily, and you can control them with a remote once they’re up there.
Why PK Sound Provides the Best Concert Line Array Speakers
A technological pioneer, PK Sound offers the best concert speakers whose maximum outputs boom at 145 dB or over 150 dB. And no matter what notes instruments play, the frequency response of these speakers ranges from a deep 40 hz to a whopping 20 kHz. PK Sound builds equipment with users in mind, so speakers are intuitive and easy to set up. They can also last for over 100 years.
PK Sound is at the forefront of sound technology. Not only do PK Sound’s concert speaker systems have a reputation for being the quickest to set up, but they’re adjustable through digital means once you install them on the stage. You won’t have to take them down to adjust them.
As a member of the PK Alliance, STS Concert Sound is an expert at using this equipment. We experts can vouch for the effectiveness of PK Sound’s different devices, whether we’re talking about sound mixers, speakers or subwoofers.
STS Concert Sound is proud to be a member of the PK Alliance.
STS Concert Sound Presents Top-Quality Speakers for Rent!
As many speakers as there are on the market, only a few can make for a truly memorable performance. Great music deserves genuine concert speaker systems that produce effectively loud and beautifully crisp sound. Prevent delays with amazing equipment that’s actually easy and intuitive to set up.
With PK Sound’s state-of-the-art speakers, STS Concert Sound has flooded concert halls and festivals with music by Cheap Trick, Styx and more.
Whether you’d like to rent speakers, mixing consoles, subwoofers or array modules, we send technicians to teach available crews how everything works. Our guides have followed entire tours to provide consistent setup assistance.
If you’d like to host an unforgettable experience for the rock snobs in your audience, STS Concert Sound knows what makes them tick. To get started, please feel free to give us a call, shoot us an email, follow our socials, or fill our online form.