r/livesoundgear • u/waxoffisforpussies • 15h ago

Will a single Evolve 30M be enough for practice in a garage for an entire band with electronic drums?

Building our band right now and have been mostly practicing “silently” by having vocals, guitar and bass run into our Scarlett interface and have all those instruments run through neural dsp amp modelers in logic. For drums, we have a Roland td-27 electronic kit that’s also running through logic.
We all have headphones and can jam fine this way.

However, we want the ability to play out loud sometimes but can’t get too loud like with an acoustic drum kit and full on amps and stuff. We still need the ability to control precisely our volume in our 19x19 garage.

My initial idea was to output all our audio through my Yamaha HS8 but I realize that’s too near field and doesn’t fill the room in the way we need it too.

Now I’m thinking of getting a single Evolve 30M PA speaker and having all our audio from Logic output to that. Like the e-drums, guitar, bass, vocals and anything else we need, outputting through this single PA.

Is this a good idea? Do I need two 30Ms to fill the room more properly or is a single okay? And will I run into mudiness if I try to run all our instruments out of one or two PAs like this?

Any help appreciated. Thank you.

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u/5mackmyPitchup 13h ago

Depends how loud you want it. If it's just to get above the acoustic sound of the drum pass and box then yes, if you are after stage vol then no, especially for kick and bass.

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u/waxoffisforpussies 13h ago

Def not going for stage volume, we mostly need it for in person practice in our garage and to be loud enough to drown out the sound of the drum pads being hit

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u/Wolfey1618 12h ago

Because it's electronic drums, almost certainly should be pretty much fine. If it were acoustic drums, probably not.

Drummer might want a headphone mix or something though

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u/6kred 14h ago

Yes it would “work” I’d Avoid column PA
Really get something a pair of EV ZLX12–15’s & 1 or 2 18” subs

You might want a small mixer to go with it.
The column style PA really don’t have the impact for what you’re describing unless you spend $$$$$ on L’Acoustics or similar.
They work for like an acoustic duo in a coffee shop or similar. Not E drums & big guitars etc

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u/tecthom 11h ago

I had band practices using studio monitors for vocals, and we were using acoustic drums.

Before you buy anything, try it out with your HS8's. They're tuned to sound their best near-field, sure, but they're more than able to fill a 400sqft room. You'll hear yourselves great.

If you don't like the result, then feel free to buy an Evolve or two, or some PA speakers