Musicopratik Studios upgrades with QSC
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“We have five rehearsal rooms, ranging from 15 by 15ft to about 20 by 24. We also have a recording studio with a prep area, and the CP12s went in all of them,” Mainville continues. “Since we started in 2005, we’ve owned many major brands of powered stage monitors except QSC. But when it came time to upgrade, we decided that the QSC CP12s sounded way better than any other option.” Musicopratik contacted SFM, the exclusive Canadian distributor of QSC, who collaborated with the facility on installing the new CP Series.
“With previous speakers, we always had problems with singers being able to hear themselves in the mix with the rest of the band,” he notes. “That would lead to the inevitable volume wars. Since we got the CP12s, we’ve received a lot of good comments from singers, who now say they can hear themselves much more clearly.”
Mainville also noticed a detail that set the CP12s apart: their quietness. “We recently owned another major brand of powered monitors - one of the biggest,” he recalls. “Their amount of white noise was just awful, and their rep said this was probably because our electricity was dirty. When we switched to QSC, they were much quieter, with a noise floor I’d describe as below average. And we didn’t have to do anything to our electricity.”
So far, Musicopratik has purchased 26 of the CP12 speakers, and Mainville predicts there are more to come. “We also do sound system rental,” he says. “We’re not competing with huge rental companies, but we think of ourselves more as the mom-and-pop corner store for our neighbourhood, where a lot of musicians live. Because the CP12s are so compact and lightweight, and have such a nice shape, they’re ideal for our rental business.”
(Jim Evans)
