Susan:

Here are four pieces of advice coming from twenty years of performing with a small sound system:

1. Buy quality. Our Sunn system has survived about 2000 gigs with only minor repairs (which we did ourselves).

2. Buy light. Remember you will have to carry this stuff for (hopefully) many years, up and down stairs, onto and off of stages, into and out of your vehicle, etc.

3. Buy simple. Unless you want to spend more time as a technician than a performer, get something that's simple to connect, simple to use, and simple for you to understand.

4. Buy capability. You seem to know what your needs are today but what about tomorrow? One of our biggest regrets is that we only bought four channels because that's what we needed at the time. Now we need six and could use eight. Plan ahead.

Bev and Jerry