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Re: Bose L1

i've always been interested in these, but they're very expensive and I find myself wondering
 
- how useful they are if just one member of a band has one for personal sound/monitoring onstage.
 
- How they work with a number of signals going through them - using them as a kind of PA in themselves - instead of the one per musician approach.
 
- it's a lot of setting up and taking down if you are playing as part of a multi-act line-up.
 
I'm still not entirely sure of the differences between the L1 models 1&2 - looks like the model 2 uses more efficient drivers(?).
Are they so good that they are worth the investment. You could buy a pair of good powered FOH speakers and a couple of wedges & more for the price of one of these!
 
Thoughts, experiences?
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 5:38 PM
Subject: RE: Bose L1

I’ve been using a Bose L1 with two subwoofers in my live & looped solo blues/jam act since 2004.  It’s a great system.  When on concert stages with sound reinforcement, I just tell the FOH guy to plug into the Bose line out, not needing a monitor.  The Bose subs do not have a long throw, but they will get a bass or kick out into a small area (I do have a JBL 18” powered subwoofer for extra large rooms, but rarely use it).  My system is the original L1, so it is bulkier, taller and heavier than the one shown on your link.  I do about a hundred solos a year (along with 150+ band dates) and I’ve never wished I was using something else.

 

I get compliments on the sound at every gig.  I run my guitars through a Vox Tonelab, my kickdrum is a Porchboard Bass and I use two EH Micro Pog pedals for octave adjustments to create bass sounds—all this goes into a Mackie 1402 VLZ3 and loops through an EDP.  The Bose spreads the mid and high frequencies in an amazingly broad pattern.  Also amazing is the fact that the linear radiator is set up about three feet behind me, with an SM 58 vocal mic right in front of it, yet never feeds back.  I hear what the audience is hearing, which is a great help when making one-man-band loops with six or eight layers of bed and solos on top.  Can’t recommend it enough.

 

dave

 

 

www.microwavedave.com

 

 

From: JASON CASKENTTE [mailto:jcaskenette@rogers.com]
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 10:31 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Bose L1

 

I'm thinking of sending my loops through a Bose L1 PA system has any body ever used or own one before?