When is it cheaper to rent a DBX Condenser Microphone by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $19 day rate would be $114, but the weekly rate caps it at $113.

When is it cheaper to rent a DBX Condenser Microphone on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $375 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

Break-even duration

Equipment rents on three rates — a day rate, a week rate and a 28-day rate — and the cheapest one changes as the job runs long. This finds the two days where it changes, on a real listing’s real published rates.

DBX Condenser Microphone

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AV Event Rentals · Microphones

Day: $19
Week: $113
28 days: $375

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $114. On the week rate it is $113.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $437. On the 28-day rate it is $375.

The working

Whole weeks bill at the week rate; the leftover days bill at the day rate but never add up to more than one extra week; and a whole 28-day cycle never costs more than the 28-day rate. That is the rule, applied one day at a time.

Rental price by duration for DBX Condenser Microphone, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$19	$19	—	day
2	$38	$38	—	day
3	$57	$57	—	day
4	$76	$76	—	day
5	$95	$95	—	day
6	$114	$113	you save $1	week
7	$133	$113	you save $20	week
8	$152	$132	you save $20	week
9	$171	$151	you save $20	week
10	$190	$170	you save $20	week
11	$209	$189	you save $20	week
12	$228	$208	you save $20	week
13	$247	$226	you save $21	week
14	$266	$226	you save $40	week
15	$285	$245	you save $40	week
16	$304	$264	you save $40	week
17	$323	$283	you save $40	week
18	$342	$302	you save $40	week
19	$361	$321	you save $40	week
20	$380	$339	you save $41	week
21	$399	$339	you save $60	week
22	$418	$358	you save $60	week
23	$437	$375	you save $62	28-day
24	$456	$375	you save $81	28-day
25	$475	$375	you save $100	28-day
26	$494	$375	you save $119	28-day
27	$513	$375	you save $138	28-day
28	$532	$375	you save $157	28-day
29	$551	$394	you save $157	day
30	$570	$413	you save $157	day
31	$589	$432	you save $157	day
32	$608	$451	you save $157	day
33	$627	$470	you save $157	day
34	$646	$488	you save $158	week
35	$665	$488	you save $177	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 23 days: $375
Rental protection (RPP): $56.25
Service fee: $37.50
Estimated total: $468.75

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The numbers come from one operator’s published rates, so the tool needs to know whose.

Where these numbers come from

The rates are the operator’s own, read live from their listing. The arithmetic is the same best-price billing engine that produces 2Quip invoices — not a second copy written for this page — run on the industry-standard terms: a 28-day cycle, whole weeks at the week rate, leftover days at the day rate capped at one more week.

An operator can agree different terms on an individual rental, and a long rental bills per 28-day cycle rather than in one lump. So treat this as what the rate card says, and the operator’s quote as what you are agreeing to.