How would you like this speaker setup for your inventory?
- Thread starter MIXMASTERMACHOM
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I got someone that knows how to use a driverack. I never said that's what I want for a setup. I might get 2 more Earthquakes and that's it for me. That's to be able to handle a convention. The rooms they have their dances and main meetings in is a large ballroom. You have to have a super system to get the job done right.
We would use 8 subs with 4 tops.
8 matching sub and 4 matching tops??? otherwise it will sound horrible
Our system. We got the goods to get the job done right.So whose system will you be using????
Mix according to the gear you've told us you have you don't have the proper gear to get this done, you need 4 matching tops and 4 matching subs, Mixing brands, models styles of speakers leads to a horrible sounding mess, I hope whoever is hiring you for this gig is not terribly dissapointed
Trust me they won't be. If it were you they might. LOL Don't go crazy. Just joking.
If I were there they would witness and hear a properly deployed matched sound system tastefully set up by 1 professionally attired individual, not some random mess of mixed speaker making a horrible sound
Yes Bobcat, I don't get any inquiries that would require a concert type of PA system. I'm not in the festival PA rental business and don't wanna be! I'd more likely be peforming with one of the acts at a festival.
Mix .. you really need a DriveRack (or a digital delay) for even a single Earthquake. With a horn loaded enclosure, you have a relatively long chamber with the driver at the back end .. so if you straightened it out, the driver would be 5-7 feet behind the front of the cabinet. With that, you should be delaying the signal to the tops by 5-6 ms or you have the higher frequencies being heard BEFORE the lows .. making it sound muddy (or you need to place the CVs 5-7 feet in front of the tops).
I used to run a similar type of sub (Yorkville USCB1) and had a delay on the tops (Yorkville U15B) all the time.
So .. it doesn't matter how many you have .. the system NEEDS the delay (usually from a DriveRack or specialized crossover) to sound good.
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What Steve said...And I'll add when you start mixing types and styles of subs you get a whole other mess. It can be done but you really have to know what you are doing