Hi William, I've taken the topic off the mailing list and emailed you personally about it. Hope you find it!!! Might have gone into Junk or Spam as I need to sort out my rDNS records with my ISP, uuuuh :-) Kaya -----Original Message----- From: William Yang <[email protected]> To: 'SunRay-Users mailing list' <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Jul 22, 2009 3:36 am Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] How long have Sun Rays been around? It's a TAPCO mixer (a Mackie company?). If we had a bigger budget, I'd have picked a real Mackie :) We use it mostly as a powerful and high quality portable PA system for music and voice (hence the wireless headset mic). The Sun Ray lets us stream internet radio or other music available on the network with minimal power usage. The large LCD monitor lets people use it to give presentations, or a small group could watch a movie (they would hook up a laptop of course). The Sun 24" monitors are S-PVA, which makes them super-wide viewing angle; good for both of those purposes. Otherwise it functions as a handy mobile kiosk too, and we did use once to get a drumroll sound effect during a conference luncheon. We are actually looking to make it easily convertible to record sound; Sun Rays record audio fairly well we've found, although we haven't really tested it over the wireless yet :) Besides its "practical" uses, sometimes we just wheel it around the halls during special times of the year for fun. The other thing you don't see in the picture is that there is a "sister" cart. We have another wireless transmitter that we got a guitar plug for, except we plug it into the mixer so there can be two carts separated by a good distance that are blasting in sync. Using x11vnc allows us to control the Sun Ray remotely if we're really blasting and can't walk near it, and the serial port on the Ray lets us monitor the UPS too. Watch out for your 500 watts…our 200 watt kit is enough to occasionally make the security staff upset, although the students and even teachers love it! If you've got a Sun Ray 1 series…play with the bass adjustments in utsettings, with and without external speakers. I was pleasantly surprised the first time I did. Hope this isn't getting too off topic here! William From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 6:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] How long have Sun Rays been around? I know those monitors :-) the speakers on the uwave Alesis Monitor 1's :-) very nice and what is that an Alesis USB mixer, Mackie or Behriger??? What on earth to you do with?? Definitely not sound recording I hope.... lol Actually having said that when I am more setup and don't live with my parents I will probably stick the Ray into my Soundcraft Notepad mixer and use my JBL Control 1's and/or Spirit Absolute 4P monitors with it..... give or take about 500 watts of audio power all getting produced by a Ray... aaaah the possibilities are endless!!!! P.s. Sun you see you have some young enthusiastic students around, how about hiring us for something??? You make the Rays rock, we'll make em take the roof off :-P Kaya -----Original Message----- From: William Yang <[email protected]> To: 'SunRay-Users mailing list' <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Jul 22, 2009 12:41 am Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] How long have Sun Rays been around? Speaking of playing music… http://www.tjhsst.edu/admin/livedoc/index.php/Image:SunRay_Music_Cart.JPG Not the best picture of it, but if you look around carefully, you see a UPS on the very bottom, 2x100 watt speakers on the middle shelf, and a wireless bridge in the gap between the monitor stand and the Sun Ray (I won't list the more obvious things in the picture :) ). It'll last a couple hours unplugged, at a decent volume, too. William
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