If you like the idea of line array's check out this:

https://www.electrovoice.com/product-family.php?id=242

Sweetwater has it priced at $1,599.

This is new to me, I didn't know EV had jumped into that space. I know Bose sounds great, my problem with them is I think they're overpriced. EV has a great rep in the biz too. They seem to fit into the old formula 90% of the best for roughly half the money. This is the other EV system I was talking about, a pair of ZXa1's which are 8" with their sub:

https://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audio/electro-voice-zxa1-90-powered-pa-speaker

https://www.samash.com/electro-voice-elx...jRoC9y4QAvD_BwE

The ZXa1's continually get good reviews from the players on the Keyboard Corner forum for reproducing a good acoustic piano sound which it difficult for lots of PA's. If an AP sounds good virtually everything else will sound good. They all say these put out pretty decent bass too. You could try these and see if you needed the sub or not. Otherwise I would really give that new Evolve 50 a shot because it's much less than the Bose. I know EV makes good stuff and it has a 12" sub so I would bet it sounds great.

As for your tracks, back when I had a duo and we had a casino gig I used Biab tracks. The issue with them was room acoustics. What I mixed at home didn't work at the gig and the problem was bass and drums. The mix had them too loud or too soft depending on room acoustics. My sax player used his PA which was a pair of passive 15" Eons driven by a Yamaha powered head. Overkill for many places but sounded great with lots of headroom. The Yamaha head has a 15 band EQ on it which a pair of the older EON's need because they can get boomy if you're not careful. I was having a hard time getting the tracks to sound like I wanted until I remixed them. That gig died about 8 years ago and I've only played in full bands since.

Bob


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