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Powered speakers blow, I can attest. The KC400 is the amp you need and you have it. I'd hit the gym and take some creatine if I were you because you are going to be disappointed going with powered speakers. Yeah they're lighter, but way more bulky, more trips to the car, more cables, more outlets needed, weaker sound (no body), and a pain to use with multiple keyboards. I had the worst time of my life gigging with powered PA speakers. They just don't sound as good and aren't as flexible as having a keyboard amp with DI's to go out to FOH and the KC400 you have is excellent. I use both the 400 and 600 now depending on the gig and haven't looked back. Takes me about 10 minutes to set up and break down. I'd look to strengthen myself up a bit and try to put some casters on it like they have on the KC600, they make a world of difference plus you can stack stuff on the amp and roll it it all in on one trip. Easy peasy.

You do realize that Marinelli is genuine and creating real content, don't you? Beato creates marshmallow fluff and clickbait all while heavily pushing ads for his arpeggio and ear training courses and his double cutaway Gibson down your throat in his attempt to be the next Mr. Beast, Dude Perfect, PewDiePie or Dobre Bros. His condescension and smugness are cloying and nausea inducing. "But he's introducing the world to the genius of Donald Fagen and his judicious use of Mark Knopfler on The Most Complex Yacht Rock Song of All Time." Yeah, no, Beato is still a grifter trying to pry those greenbacks from your inflation decimated paypal account.

K9EID, SK. RIP. 73.

Now Marinelli is a youtuber I can get behind, routinely putting out intelligent and interesting content. This is what youtube should be.

Beato saying that Cristopher Cross' guitar solo is the greatest ever speaks volumes. How can anyone take him seriously. Clickbait titles, top ten lists, he's a youtuber no more no less, a 70's rock version of Sam Sulek or Liver King. The jock sniffing around here from people who repost his videos is pathetic. He's not even keyboard related. He's a guitarist influencer. Matt Johnson plugs his samples but that's okay. His videos are great and helpful. Beato pushing a $100 ear training course exploiting the spawn of his mail order bride and pushing an overpriced $2000 pelham blue Gibson is disgusting. There is no way any sane person can compare the pandering pablum Beato uploads to YT to the material Matt Johnson posts. Just because Beato claims that your favorite yacht rock song is the most amazing song ever composed doesn't mean he is God. Far from it, brother. #panderstoboomers

Beato sucks. Beato is in love with Beato and that comes across strongly in his videos. Very smug, condescending, and patronizing. Typical boomer thinking their opinion is supreme. I remember seeing this guy back in the day exploiting his kid to get views and shill his perfect pitch ear training course. Now he smacks you in the face with all that gray hair and throws on the knee pads when interviewing musicians. I don't get why these big names like Keith Jarrett and Burton gulped the kool-aid and went on his channel. What is wrong with them? Why can't they see through his bs? And his greatest this and that videos are all 70's music, he's a boomer trying to evangelize his old lame music to the masses. Hey Beato, Steely Dan ain't the be all end all of music, deal with it, you're time has passed. And that blue gibson that he shamelessly pimps, come on man. He needs to be canceled. Hopefully some Diddy type stuff will come out about him and he will go away. He doesn't hold a candle to Matt Johnson as far as education goes. Johnson is awesome and genuine. Beato is a phony trying to game the youtube system and scam his fans on that overpriced LP junior type guitar.

The Roland KC220 is perfect for the type of gig you're talking about. It's light, inexpensive and stereo. Me, I'd go for two KC400's stereo linked that mainly for the extra power, bass and flexibility it you should ever play bigger rooms or join a band and need one for stage monitoring. But the 220 is golden for this type of work. You are going to be disappointed going the powered PA speaker route like these guys are saying, especially going with something cheap like Alto or Harbinger. PA speakers are too cold and directional. The current batch of Roland KC amps are warm and sound balls out amazing. You can't go wrong picking a Roland, worth it every time.

This one is a lot of meh. We already have the Jupiter X at a decent price. Unless this Behringer is way cheaper, I don't get it. Can't see this being less than $1,500. Kind of pointless now.

Totally unnecessary. Always remember that nobody likes a hot dog lightbg. You should be playing left hand bass, you playing keys in the right and weak ass bass in the left is hurting the band. A split with a bass patch is going to sound better than the single handed tone you are getting out that bass. Showing off like that doesn't impress anybody. I play keys and cover bass too. 80% of the time I am playing left hand bass. For the other 20, I play a real P-bass with two hands (songs where I'm not playing keys). No way you getting any decent articulation or tone playing that way. C'mon man, you can do better.

Fixed it for you.

This IEC thing comes up all the time when new keyboards come out. Most come out with external power supplies, deal with it. I've never forgotten an external power supply at home or at a gig, never had one fail on me except the original one I had with my Fizmo but that was a Fizmo issue that fried the power supply. I'm just getting tired of all these boomers here complaining about external power supplies banging the IEC drum. Imagine the silent cries from the silent generation what is was like before the internet when keyboards moved from having hardwired power cables to IEC cables. "What if I forget my cable at home?" Oh no the travesty. Are we all just going to be playing through KC500's with it's hardwired power cable, when the KC600 is much more advanced and better sounding just because some random dolt forgets his IEC cable at home? It seems to be a boomer thing. There's a lot of great gear with external power supplies, mixers, synths, modules, pedals, to pass on technology because of it is idiotic. In this forum where everyone is using electronic keyboards it doesn't make sense that half the forum are luddites. I can see if I was on pianoworld but this is keyboard corner. External power supplies bring a lot to the table, big upside, from lighter keyboards to being easily replaceable without a service visit. It's 2024, get with the times.

Look up sell out in Webster's and you'll find a picture of Dave Grusin. Utterly banal and GRP Records is even worse. This "music" is best forgotten.

Okay boomer.

The Zoom L8 Livetrak is sweet and sounds like exactly what you need. Eight channel mixer/recorder. They have 12 and 20 track versions if you need more channels. I've been using it at home to run my keyboards to PA speakers and also for home jams with a guitarist and drummer. Easy to use and records great too. Not too expensive.

Les' album with the Jazz Crusaders was awesome too along with his work with Lou Rawls. McCann is on my Mount Rushmore of soul-jazz pianists. I love him. He flat out ate Ramsey Lewis' lunch AND dinner. RIP.