Music Gear Needed for Playing Live Acoustic Gigs 

Great video! Just wanted to point out a couple of things. You don't need a "speaker" cable to go from a mixer to a powered speaker. Speaker cables are heavier gauge to carry signals from a power amp to a non-powered speaker and are not shielded. Using that kind of cable in this instance can introduce outside interference/noise. In your case, a mic cable, which is shielded and balanced and better at rejecting interference, would be the best option to connect the mixer to the speaker. Similarly, for the connection from your Fishman unit to the board, a mic cable would be a much better choice. It is a balanced signal and will handle longer runs without signal loss that you get from "instrument" cables, which are not balanced. Hope that helps!

I like the tc helicon play acoustic for guitar fx and vocal fx. Opens a whole new world for vocals and solo gigs.

Love what you’re doing man! Keep being awesome!! 🔥🔥

This is great! I have played acoustic gigs for many years, and I too now have the ToneDeq. This is a super video for folks just starting and wanting to understand what to do, as well a good review for experienced folks. Nice one!

Thank you for making this video.. this was really helpful 😊

Man you're just my go to when it comes to gear info, setup, etc. Such great videos all across your channel. Cheers buddy!

Hi jason, Rick here. I really loved your video on eqip. I have palyed in a bluegrass band for the past twenty years. But get this we were doing cover gigs like Metalica, Led Zepplin, the Beatlles long before anyone else out there started it. But I now want to just be on my own with my fiancee', I might add sings it all, and do what I love doing. Oh I am 60 years old and yes still a rocker. Thanks again for a great video.

Great video for someone starting up or going on their own in the acoustic venue..it is a lot different than a full band gig for sure.. . Nice job Jason! You have covered all the bases and with quality equipment. I just came across your video and you have a new subscriber.

Very helpful and well done video. Thank You!.

Great positive video! Thanks a lot!

Love your metal stuff … 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

This was so helpful thanks!

Great job bud! Just found your channel. Thinking about solo gigging soon.. keep up the good work!

Very helpful and informative. Thank you man

Great video, many thanks. Dave.

Thanks for the help man 🤘

thanks brother. I love this

Great stuff my man.

Perfect thank you!

Thank you very much for the great, honest, and fun video! :) you are a good speaker.

Jason, recently came across your channel. I like your laid back delivery and not the over the top delivery some RU-vidrs seem to love. For low number of inputs, the Bose T1 or T4s are great little mixers. Small, and they have comp, EQ, verb and delay and their ToneMatch settings so you can just plug the guitar straight into mixer and it sounds good. Also, I'm a big fan of the Audix OM series of mics. The OM-2 is the same money as a 58 and the OM-5 is about the same as the Beta 58.

Thanks, this was very informative

Great video.. thank you!

You are just awesome Sir

So helpful thanks very much.

dude I've been looking at this exact speaker and mixer combo! what are the odds! great to see its working well!

I really enjoyed your presentation and style ..

Super helpful video! Looking to invest in a ToneDEQ now. Thanks for the suggestions!

This content is really helpful! Cool :)

After years of humping gear I reckon I have finally got my rig perfected. I have a 90 dollar round back six string with a Bolt on neck, strung with Daddario light gauge with a plain 017 swapped out for the wound g, a $19.00 rechargeable wireless headset mic, a $35.00 transmitter and receiver set for guitar, and a $175.00 portable p.a. speaker with a 15 and a M.r. horn built-in reverb. One load in. Speaker on wheels, guitar case under arm, triangle guitar stand in hand set up time is two minutes max, and I get paid at the end, can just about load out before they realise I've knocked off. Wish I'd done it sooner. I don't even need to plug in to power if I don't want to. Powered speaker runs off two self contained 12 v batteries, last for about 6 hours, haven't run them flat yet. Use all rechargeable batteries in the remotes. Lasts a whole 4 hour gig. Minimal cost and hassle free. Just saying. Thanks for the info Jas, rock on. G.

hey bud. great video! im using the the same equivalent equipment. great for small venues. i do have a second speaker. i play acoustic gigs in southern New Hampshire.

Very informative! 😎👍🏼👍🏼

Thanks I’ve just starting out playing with back tracks and this really helped now subscribed and I’ve hit the bell and liked your video

Great video.. thanks loads

Hey dude! Steven Cash here from 1999...harvest days. Congrats on the awesome channel! I just happened to notice it when I searched 'acoustic gig setup'...I gotta say i was surprised to see you doing acoustic gigs haha! You could always melt any electric fret board! Great video. I enjoyed seeing your gear. I didnt do much w musici for quite a while but I'm learning songs and thinking about doing a singer, acoustic guitar gig type deal.

Nice job. Really helpful.

Hey Jason great rundown of your gear. I might suggest an extra cable or two as backup in the event one gets damaged or is not working and extra battery for the acoustic guitar pre-amp.

I have been looking for this type of information for some time, you pretty much nailed every question rattling around in my head. Thanks so much! Would ask one other question though, what APP (if you use one for your set list/tabs etc.?

Thanks brother

Thanks for the gear inventory. Can you add a quick set up connectivity section to this. What connects to what for different sound options and venue types?

Death metal and solo acoustic. What's next for Jason Stallworth? Opera? Maybe move to Mongolia and take up throat singing? Lol. Just seems like very different ends of the rock and roll spectrum. But if you pull them both off well, mad respect.

Thank you! This has been really helpful! I do have a question… or several 😅 I have the Behringer Europort PA system. Does this cut out some of the gear I need, like the DI box and mixing board? Or would those individual pieces be better to have?

Hi Jason, it would be need a stand for the speaker? Sometimes maybe a little stage. I am willing to do it too and definitely your video is very useful. Thank you so much for giving details about it.

Need a little cart to load it all on! We aren't all that jacked to carry that bigass EV speaker. Hahaha!!

Jason, great video. Thanks. Question, what is the difference between what the mixing board is doing as opposed to the pre-amp? This is all new to me.

Nice summary of the essentials for a one man band. 😎 Let me offer some more tipps and some teenie weenie little corrections. Microphones can be seen as the first EQ stage, as they have different characteristics. So it‘s not the „more power“ of the Beta versions (as that can easily be adjusted with the gain control on your sound board), but what the mic actually does for you frequency wise. For solo musicians the old type of sound board is kinda outdated, especially when space and flexibility is an issue. Remote controlled mixers like SoundCraft’s UI- or Behringer’s X-series are what you may want to consider. They not only offer all the outboard stuff you may be carrying around, like that awkward DI-board, an extra player or guitar FXs, but they also let you store your settings for all the venues you may be repeatedly playing at. In addition to dynamics processing, they offer gates and feedback suppression, which come in handy especially when the corner in which you have to set up is acoustically not that ideal. Your speaker already can be remotely controlled, so why shouldn‘t your sound board offer this? FXs, like chorus, reverb, and some delay types, don‘t make a lot of sense without stereo capabilities. And besides, we (and the people in our audiences) have two ears… 😁 Last but not least - monitor speakers next to your computer workplace should point at your ears and shouldn‘t be hampered by barriers next to them. Get rid of them - and the results will be a lot better. 🤓

Very helpful video! Thank you Dana White!🙂

That Fishman is nice!

I live in Churubusco, In. I can throw a rock and hit Sweetwater. So very cool.

Jason, Just a quick question my friend...Out of curiosity why did you select the 10 channel Mackie mixer over the smaller channel mackies? I know they make 4 and 8..are you using those extra channels for something else(Like recording) or does the 10 channel have additional features the others don't? I like the Mackie mixer and don't want to leave any stone unturned in my selection of which to buy. Again, thanks for your video..Very helpful.

Nice tips sir

So inspiring, sometime simple setup, or less gear is better

Good information. How do you not get feedback on your guitar? Also if you are connecting the Fishman DI box to your mixer what settings do you use on each of them?

What effects pedal do you recommend for octave/ bass effects when looping ? Very good content brother

Great video, great channel!

Looks like your using a speaker cable from the mixer to the powered speaker. It will work for the most part but you might run into a situation where you have a 60 cycle hum. Really need a line/instrument cable instead of speaker. Very informative video. Thanks

I bought a set of 100 dollar powered monitor speakers, two Powerwerks PW50 small PA speakers, a 100 watt Yamaha subwoofer, a four channel Yamaha mixer with basic effects, two chorus pedals, a cheapo but fun PockRock effects pedal for comedy songs so I can have drums and fuzz effect on my acoustic, very impressive cheap Shure copy SM-57 & 58 mics that are 98% as good (after around a dozen stolen Shures...now they can steal a 20-30 dollar mic), plus I already have a Sennheiser vocal mic. Those cheap Shure copies are as good as any I`ve used besides the Beta 58 and Peavy mics. Plus I got a Dean Koa wood acoustic electric and an impressive 89 dollar Ashthorpe acoustic electric as backup and alternative tunings. All this for well under 1000.

Cheers

Just a tip that I use Jason. If you can get your hands on a Zoom A3 guitar efx pedal it also has mic/phantom input. For a soloist it is the perfect little efx / mixer DI. Although I don't think it was ever designed for vocals that said but I've been using it for years with zero issues. My setup is very basic QSC K8 2000watt, Boss RC30 looper, 2 x A3 Zoom. I actually only ever use the one A3 Zoom but I realised it's best if I have a back up and because they stopped making these I went a purchased another one second hand.

I would add mackie pro fx in the title in case people are searching for that. More hits to your channel and potential follwers

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I’m playing my performing my sister’s first dance song at her wedding next year and am researching what I need to buy in order to perform. I found your video super helpful! I’m very uneducated on guitar gear and tech. I was wondering about how you plug your gear into your acoustic? Do you need a pickup or something else?

What do you think about running an acoustic through a Neural DSP Quad Cortex instead of the ToneDEQ?

Hi Jason! Thanx for the info! Question! Backing tracks or decent drum machine ie Zoom Rythmtrak RT-123? I have watched guys doing backing tracks, and it's leaning towards Kareoke and it loses the the uniqueness and spontaneity of a live solo gig.

I am curious - would an electric guitar (instead of an acoustic) work for a one man band show? I am thinking of switching to electric very soon but I still want to play small sessions in pubs.

Is there an effects pedal for my voice that can make me do metal screams better? If you have ever listened hed PE, the Jared the singer uses some kind of effect, are you familiar with this?

Was wanting to know about using a stage monitor thru the board.

Playing a wedding soon. I can just plug in to my Amp right?

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Playing in small space for only few friends and family. I need speaker for vocal and acoustic guitar using mic not pickup, any advice? Thanks

I been lucky that most places I play have a small p.a.

So speaker instead of amp for the guitar? What about speaker for voice and amp for guitar? Or you really dont need the amp?

One good thing about your Mixer is the USB connection, you can use your laptop for backing tracks, whether your using your Acoustic or Electric guitar, imagine the possibilities..!! 🎸🍻

If you have Bluetooth on your board and Bluetooth on your speaker you should be able to avoid connecting your speaker and board with a cable, I think.

Do I need the DI box if I'm playing an acoustic-electric guitar?

Would I need all of this if I’m just starting out playing live?

dont need it Bose L-1 easy lean & mean and sounds GREAT

What is that, a Nissan Pathfinder? I got me a Rogue recently

Promotional considerations in exchange for products, (reviews? Or how much did you pay for gear?).

Mr. Stallworth, I've been bromance crushing on you for years now, I'm in love with your music, and how self sufficient you are. I've got 300 bucks, what can I use as a beginner live vocalist?

Looks like the board has HiZ inputs so no need for a DI 🙂

You pick up a powered 12" speaker like it's an empty cardboard box lmao

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Man that’s expensive it sounds like 🙁

Where’s the acoustic gig?

Are you also a professional wrestler?

I'm starting to feel extremely confused about what I need just to SING live .. because every 'singing live gear' or 'vocal gear' video I look up either discussed guitars .. or singing with a guitar .. like, bruh

Very useful - a real insight to the life on the road - gigging!