Tips From The Field

Purchase your own amplifier and wireless microphones.

• • An AMP will cost < $100, and a pair of mics will cost < $100.
  • Two Mics – one for the primary caller, the other for the standby caller
  • make sure you have EXTRA batteries for mics!
  • Place your speaker(s) IN FRONT of the caller (reduce feedback)
  • if you get a complaint that people can’t hear, FIX IT. If they can’t hear you, they won’t bid, and that doesn’t help you!

Note To Self – Get fifine extra receiver and second amp to put in back of venue!

Let’s hear the coins – use glass(?) or metal plates for the quarter collection plates on the tables.

• • We use tin pie plates with thin cork feet:
  • Metal sounds almost as good as glass when raised off the table (hence the thin cork feet)
  • Metal dropped doesn’t break
  • Pie Tins are “low rise” so our coin collectors can see if there are any coins to be collected.
  • Pie Tins “Stack” – you can store 20 of them in a small box!