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This video is an in-depth look at the Mackie ThumpSub Go, Thump Go tops, and ProFX10 Go mixer. Discover how this fully battery-powered rig delivers professional sound and makes setting up for any mobile gig—from an acoustic ceremony to a DJ set in the woods—incredibly simple.
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00:00if you do mobile gigs you probably know this feeling you say yes to a simple event you show
00:05up to a lawn a dock a patio a beach and the client wants background music and then halfway through
00:12they ask for house or drum and bass or can you make it feel more like a party and you're
00:18standing
00:18there thinking my little battery speaker is not built for this i've been there way too many times
00:24so lately i've been testing something different hey i'm robbie sco and today we're digging into
00:29the mackie thump sub go a battery-powered subwoofer that lets you bring real low in to places you'd
00:35normally write off as vibes only i've been using it at waterfront festival an outdoor wedding on a
00:41patio uh maryland cocktail hour on the bay and even a wine event that made me wish i'd brought the
00:46sub
00:47with me so in this video i want to show you what the thump sub go can do in the
00:52real world how it
00:53locks in with the thump go tops and where the pro fx 10 go mixer fits into the whole five
00:59piece
00:59mobile rig so start with what the sub is how it works with the thump go and then i'll go
01:05through
01:05a few real gigs where this thing either saved me or definitely would have is the thump sub go so
01:10on a
01:10simple level this is a compact powered sub with a battery inside so you got a small footprint box
01:17real low end and a slot for up to two batteries so you can decide if this is a one
01:21event sub or an
01:23all-day sub with one battery i treat it like a solid four to six hour sub at normal gig
01:29levels with
01:30the option to to buy and add in a second battery separately now you're in that 12 hour zone for
01:35long
01:36festivals renegade sets or days when you don't want to think about power at all in the back you got
01:41some nice options so you got two inputs from your mixer source two xlr outs that can either pass
01:47everything full range or send a high pass signal up to your tops so the sub does the heavy lifting
01:52and the speakers can just breathe you got a phase switch for a quick does this sound tighter muddier
01:58decisions and output mode selector so you can run it as a mono hub or split left and right the
02:04way you
02:04want there is bluetooth built in if you want a super minimal setup but the way i've been using it
02:08is as the low-end engine for a small pa the real fun is when you pair the sub with
02:14the thump go tops
02:15thump go in my world is basically a little battery pa speaker with its own mini mixer you can plug
02:23in a
02:23mic an instrument bluetooth the track throw it on a stand and go when you drop a thump sub go
02:28underneath
02:29it it stops feeling like a loud portable box and starts feeling like a scaled down club system my usual
02:35wiring looks like this the pro fx 10 go mixer sends main outs to the inputs on the thump sub
02:41go the sub
02:42is set to send a high pass signal out to the tops then i run a pair of thump goes
02:46on poles above it
02:47and whatever voicing mode fits the gig usually music for general stuff sometimes the sub voicing if i'm
02:55outside and want a bit more correction mackey actually shows us almost exact layout in their diagrams
03:00mixer into one or two thump sub goes and then up into a pair of thump goes for a small
03:06club or bigger
03:07club depending depending on that's basically what i've been recreating on patios docks and random
03:14festival corners the first real test was actually at a wine event
03:23where i didn't bring the sub and i regretted it almost immediately i showed up with the pro fx 10
03:29go
03:29and a single thump go on paper it was just soft background music i started on piano and more rat
03:35pack style tune some frank sinatra stuff like that and they said oh yeah go go more modern so i
03:41leaned
03:41into deeper house and more dancey grooves the rig held up but i could feel the ceiling you know people
03:47were into it but the tracks didn't quite bloom the way they do when there's real low end so that
03:53was
03:53the first time i thought okay even at chill events having a battery sub in the car as an option
03:58is a
03:58big move then there was boogeyman's ball a music festival where i finally went full send with the
04:04battery rig so i set the system up near the water for a little shoot and a set two thump
04:10sub goes on the
04:11ground two thumb goes on poles pro fx 10 go in the middle no generator no extension cords running
04:18toward the water just batteries battery power normally in a spot like that you either bring
04:23a tiny bluetooth speaker and accept that it's just ambiance or you drag out a noisy generator and kill
04:29the whole vibe but here i could run proper dj tracks lean into the heavier bass stuff
04:39yeah this one's set up here with a synthesizer dj tracks played through the bluetooth connection
04:46and man just ripping with just that so if you want a real pa sound in a place where power
04:52doesn't exist
04:53this setup can actually do it at the same festival there's an acryoga workshop happening right near a
04:58louder stage the teachers had wireless mics but no way to cut through the noise so i brought the
05:02mackie rig over and set it up for them in this case it wasn't about big drops at all their
05:07voices
05:07sat on top of the ambient chaos and really get it close to that hip crease because that's what you're
05:12stepping into no backing track this time just clean amplification so everyone could hear the cues and
05:18the safety notes it's a good reminder the sub isn't only about dance music sometimes it's just about
05:24giving your pas enough authority to carve out a little island of focus in a messy environment there was
05:31outdoor wedding ceremony where i brought the full five-piece system again on this gig i had
05:35two vocal mics one guitar and my keyboard all running into the pro fx 10 go with reverb and some
05:43sweetening on the singer and the guitar
05:57the thump subs and the thump goes were out on the patio in outdoor space just outside the building
06:02that there was actually all right listen there was actually power near bay but the only thing i chose to
06:07plug in was my keyboard everything else was on battery let me tell you it was nice to not have
06:13to plug in five extra iec cables right because i all i had was my piano keyboard i said that
06:20to be
06:20honest i that going into a little anchor power bank just as one little thing i wasn't trying to drop
06:25festival level 808s during the valves but but the system gave me a ton of headroom and polish the guitar
06:32had warmth without turning muddy the vocals sat nicely above everything and if i needed to get loud
06:37for announcements the power was there at teardown there's a moment where i'm carrying a sub in each
06:42hand back to the venue and i'm not a power lifter you see me i'm not the strongest guy but
06:47it was
06:48totally manageable a sub in each hand and that matters when you're the one moving this all by
06:52yourself the gig where it really clicked for me though was a cocktail hour on the bay in maryland
06:56the cocktail spot was gorgeous right on the water and had absolutely no power none no maybe oh maybe
07:03if we run a cable 300 feet option normally i'd bring a smaller cocktail rig and just hope it was
07:08enough this time i loaded the thump sub go the thump go tops and the mixer into a single golf
07:13cart
07:13rolled out to the edge of the bay and dropped the full system they wanted chill music at first
07:19then asked for more modern dancey stuff as people loosened up because the sub was there the house tracks
07:25and modern pop actually felt the way they're supposed to people started dancing during cocktail
07:29not just nodding along looking back this is honestly one of my best cocktail hours all year
07:34part song choice part location a big part the fact that the system wasn't fighting for low end the
07:41thump sub go definitely earned its keep that night i won't go super deep on the pro fx 10 go
07:46mixer here
07:47but you know the mixer is the glue that makes the whole rig feel like an actual system it's a
07:51compact
07:51mixer that runs on its own battery with enough mic channels for ceremonies or small bands built-in
07:57effects eq and the usual routing you expect on a small desk for the wedding ceremony i was using its
08:02eq and reverb on the singer and for the dancing moments i could run my playback device into a stereo
08:07channel and treat it like a normal dj mixer path the nice part is it follows the same philosophy as
08:14the
08:14speakers you can stay completely off grade if you want totally battery power or plug in certain pieces
08:19where it makes sense and keep the rest on battery so after all that who does this actually make sense
08:23for
08:23from my experience so far thump sub go is a great fit if you're a mobile dj doing weddings corporate
08:30events
08:30pool parties private events or a busker a live performer who wants grab and go simplicity but doesn't want to
08:38give up real low end a duo or small band playing patios courtyards or small outdoor stages someone running
08:44festival side activations yoga workshops renegade sets where power is limited or non-existent or a
08:52creator who wants to film performance content in weird locations and have it sound like a show not a
08:57bluetooth speaker on the ground if all your gigs are right next to wall outlets you can absolutely get
09:03by with a traditional wired sub but the minute your work starts pulling you out to lawns docks beaches
09:09parks and random festival corners a battery sub goes from a nice to have to kind of essential for me
09:15the
09:15mackie thump sub go is not about replacing a huge club rig it's about having a serious low end option
09:21that can go wherever the gig or shoot happens to be without dragging a generator into the frame if you
09:27want
09:27me to get nerdier about routing gain staging or specific presets for different scenarios drop a
09:32comment and we can dive into that in another video i'm robbie sco go make something loud in a place
09:38that
09:38shouldn't allow it