Making A jam Room! Lights,Pa,Mixer,Power

[mehvar]

At the moment i'm constructing a jam room for my band to practice in...

i m gonna get a PA and a mixer so that we all can connect to it..and the drummer wont need mics cuz its gonna be a small enuff room ...
what i wanna know is... which mixer to get...6 channels is enuff ...and which PA to get ....i m thinking the PA should be atleast 300 watts....

and whats the deal with powersupply..dose the PA and mixer..fit in the same outlet? which normal amps (and other appliances) plug in to ?
help will be appriciated...

i ve already setup around 12 switches in the room ....6 on 1 side of the wall and the other 6 on the opposite of the wall, so that it doesnt matter where the people are standing they have a switch...for theri pedal or w/e

anyother PRECAUTIONS??? and dont worry abt soundproofing....
and other advice wud be great....
this is the first timei'm making a jam room and know lil abt mixers..and all ...i just know what they are and what they do ..
HELP :D

[moaner]

power amps, mixers, PAs, amps, all take normal wall sockets, but it's best to avoid plugging too many large amplifiers into the same socket through splitters.

[mehvar]

power amps, mixers, PAs, amps, all take normal wall sockets, but it's best to avoid plugging too many large amplifiers into the same socket through splitters.

yeh i wont worry abt that cuz i ve got like lots of sockets...there will only be 3 amps...(bass,2 for guitar) altogether i have like ...12 input switches..

[airborne50caliber]

To avoid interference you should have all the audio equipment connected to one wall socket and branching out in a star system.

[headshrinker]

300 watts should be fine, we used to use a 100watt Pa at first and that was fine. We now use 800 to give the vocals a push over the drums when practing but we use it live too but i would think 300 wud be perfect for practing.

[moaner]

To avoid interference you should have all the audio equipment connected to one wall socket and branching out in a star system.

If you're going to do that, no kettles.

Hairdryers, fan heaters,electric radioators. No joke, some 4 ways might have 3A fuses in them.

[airborne50caliber]

If you're going to do that, no kettles.

Hairdryers, fan heaters,electric radioators. No joke, some 4 ways might have 3A fuses in them.

Yeah, fair enough. But its the ideal way. Here we have fuses in appliances as a pose to in plugs and splitters, so that helps.

[Aes820]

Most big venues use 3 phase power supplies. One phase for the lighting, one for the PA and one for the band equipment.
Or maybe 2 phases for the lights and one for all the audio gear, depending on the scale of the lighting rig.
So, essentially, there's one common ground in the power supply but yet three seperate power supplies.
That's the wonders of 3 phase.

But for us folks with our relatively low powered gear, just running them off normal wall sockets is fine.
It's always a good idea to use those power strip boards that cut out when you run them over 10 Amps or whatever.
And of course there's the fuse in your house's meter box that'll blow if you overload anything. So for the most part you should be right.

But check each individaul components power consumption rating (differnt to power output) if you are concerned.

Remebering that power consumption in watts divided by voltage = current drawn from the wall supply.

For example: an amp that consumes 500 watts off a 240 volt power supply will be drawing 2 Amps of current.

[10571z]

i really dont think for a jam room power will be a problem. And i dont see the need of spending 100's if not 1000's on lights for a jam room?

[fuzzyhair]

i really dont think for a jam room power will be a problem. And i dont see the need of spending 100's if not 1000's on lights for a jam room?
He could proboably just find some track lights for cheap.