Recent content by Paul OBrien

There was a night club in my small hometown that hosted bands fairly regularly up until about the early '90s, the house system was W bins, front loaded mid horns and big ole HF horns stacked from floor to ceiling on either side of the stage. Apparently the rig was all DIY including some of the...

Yes you could use the driverack to process that PA and it will do a much better job of it than the analog crossover once you have everything dialed in. I see 2 different 3-way stacks there... so 1ea 218/mid/high in each stack, best not to mix different boxes together and try to use it as shown...

Do they look something like this? If so these are very old now... like from the 70's or 80's

The capacitors in a power supply will store a charge for quite a while after AC is removed so it's good practice to disconnect from the wall first to let the powersupply discharge through the device it is powering.

Certainly you don't need to a PA line array in your house, but you may like the sound of a PA style cab with large high efficiency drivers powered by high quality home audio amplifiers. I have always felt that it takes big speakers to produce big sound and clearly I'm not the only one as there...

I had previously brought a pair of double 18s into this venue and I have seen others bring 2 or 3 times that into it.. and I gather that is when it started to become a problem. There are several ways to approach sizing of a system in a venue but one of them is playing to the dance floor only...

I have never met a DJ that plays down to the PA system, in my experience it doesn't matter if the sound system consists of a pair of speakers on sticks or giant flown array with a small mountain of subs, the DJ plays exactly the same way and will mercilessly overdrive the big system as bad as...

You could connect the instrument directly to the mixer, route it to an aux output only and send that back to the bass amp.

If the unit is "practically brand new" why aren't you filing a warranty claim?

What are the internal dimensions of the boxes and what size and how many ports are there. If it turns out they are tuned to 35-40hz like most then there are many drivers that could be used and all of them are higher performance than the old JBLs, but it's actually possiblle to go too far with...

Yes I have the EV EKX18sp subs. If I'm doing a large room I use the matching EKX12p's at FOH and the ZLXs get moved to mons or delays or cocktail room depending on the needs of the event. The EKX are on par with the PRX8xx series which can get quite a bit louder and sound more controlled doing...

I have 4 of the older ZLX12p models without BT.. which I wouldn't have any use for anyway. These have been stone axe reliable which is really important for rentals. Mine get used with subs most times and honestly that is how they perform best, the cabs are a bit too flexable and heavy bass...