Hi, This is Ric of the Chicago Area Rock Band FRAYD.


Here is some information about our all Bose L1 ROCK Band.

Here is our member lineup and instruments played:

Ric Fray: Lead Vocals & Electric Bass
Sheree Fray: Electric guitar/Rhthym/Lead & Backgroud Vocals
John Pontrelli: Electric & Acoustic Drums & Perussion.

We've been playing with the Bose L1' systems for about two years. I originally bought one thinking I would just use it for my Vocals and only at practice. Then I tried the bass and electric guitar through it and loved it. Later we bought another L1 so Sheree could have her own because my voice would compete with her guitar since everything was in one system.

Now we run bass/lead vocal/e-drums into my L1 with 4 bass bins and her guitar in another seperate system. No problems, always sounds great.

Typical venues we play: We range from small pubs to medium sized rock clubs that can hold a few hundred people. The L1's have been able to cover all of them very nicely.

Everyone in the band loves the systems. They make rehearsal and gigging out a pleasure instead of chore where you have to force yourself to smile. We can rehearse longer and more often because we can play at a decent volume without causing our ears to ring. However, when needed we can crank the systems, for say a larger rock club. Our ears may ring a bit at the end of the night, but it is still much more bearable than any other traditional system any of us has played on before. We can literally have our stuff up and running, mix set and ready to play inside of 20 minutes......It would be less but I carry all of sheree's equipment,lol.

I bought the bose stuff because the site literature and videos basically brought up every point that I hated about playing out live in a rock band. The literature claims to solve all those problems. In my experience the bose L1's do what the site says they do. We get nothing but raves about our live sound from listeners and other bands.

My favorite thing is that we can crank them and be loud enough for a rock club or play a smaller pub and play at comfortable volume that doesn't have people running for the door because of excessive volume.

Here is a scetcher of our usual stage layout. Depending on how close a corner is the guitarist and I sometimes swap places.

Here is a link to My Stage Layout in The Sketcher

You can check us out at www.myspace.com/fraydmusic or www.fraydmusic.com

We recently added a bunch of video clips of us playing live with the bose systems.

[Ken-at-Bose changed title of thread to include band size and genre only]

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Hi ric,

Thanks for using The Sketcher!

Here is your Sketch.


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Quoting ric from The Sketcher

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The electronic drums go into my bose L1 with 4 bass bins. I also put my electric bass and lead vocal
into it.

We go direct with podxt lives and don't bother with guitar amps.

You'll notice the drumme is inbetween both L1's. A little loude for him at times, but that's the where he wants to be seated. He often simply uses earplugs when we play louder. This gives us the typical rock band set up with the drummer in the center behind the rest of the band. We can do this because he uses e drums. So, there isn't an acoustic kit that might be competing with the sound of the L1's. If we used acoustic drums still we would put them off to the side.

We just released our latest album on CDbaby. It's a full album of 12 original songs titled: Reprogram / Resurrection.

You can check out sound clips at CDbaby and purchase a copy if you are so inclined.

Check it out here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/frayd