Here's the gear shots of my band, Dream Overkill at our first gig with the KPA rigs:
Shaun's rig consists of a Power Rack into an unpowered Yamaha CBR 10 cabinet. This cab is a new offering from Yamaha and is only about £175, making it a really good choice for an FRFR rig. He is using a Line 6 Radio system (Relay G30 that used to be on his old pedalboard) velcro'd into the base of a 4U rack box with the KPA.
My rig is using the Yamaha DXR10 powered cab (Easy to see because we had left the stickers on!). At 1100W it has plenty of power available. Also in the rack is a Line 6 Relay G55 rackmounted radio system. We play pretty loud and both rigs push out enough for our needs and balance pretty well.
Note: The DXR 12 system does have more power, so has more headroom available but BOTH can get to high volumes.
We also both have Foot Controllers. This particular venue is very small so we didn't need the Radio systems but wanted to test everything out in a good friendly place!
The Sound Guy was a bit unsure about the KPA Main Out being linked direct to the PA system, but was happy to try it when we told him we had set the feeds to -16dB and unlinked them from our Master Volume so we could turn up or down our speakers without affecting the feed to the PA.
The Gig was a great success! Everybody said it was the best sound we had ever had in this place (The Winchester Gate pub in Salisbury-great little venue with good beer) and the Sound Guy was amazed and totally won over. The sound in the room was just awesome! Both cabs spread the sound much wider onstage than we used to get with our guitar cabinets, so onstage sound was better for all of us.
Mr Kemper's little box of genius just keeps on winning people over!
Pics by John Egremont