On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:02:23 +0100, John Williamson wrote:

You *could* try going to a local car boot sale or market and buying some
cheap radio mics, but they will be (a) illegal, and (b) low quality.
Then use a small, cheap mixer and a second hand 50 Watt per channel or
so stereo amp, and a few speakers dotted round in boxes. That would just
get within your budget, but you'd then decide to go out and buy some
real gear when you heard the results. And multiple speakers dotted round
the room will need delays in the feed to the back ones, or the sound
there will be 'orrible.


Good sound isn't cheap when you need volume, and you need to allow at
least a watt of RMS power per person as a starting point.

Don't think Mr Stumbles needs "volume" just a bit of reinforcement,
though we don't know what "(where there's also a certain amount of
noise intruding from the rest of the pub)" actually means. Is that a
quiet lounge bar, a racus public or a six piece heavy metal band
going flat out?

I agree that £100 is not suffcient budget for two radio mics,
mixer/amp, speakers and wiring. Looking in the lates CPC flyers I see
all manner of cheapish kit, £50 for mixer/amp, speakers at £15, etc
but what this stuff actually sounds like is another matter. A trip to
Maplin where you can hopefully audition the stuff is not a bad idea.
Spend the money on the radio mics (in Ch70 "license free") and
speakers, these days virtually any mixer/amp of suitable power will
sound fine.

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Cheers
Dave.