Re: Behringer line array
Though I will reserve final judgement until I hear it, I fear that this line array will be the cause of frustration for me in the next few years. Just as with VRX, I am afraid that theaters will be sold a bill of goods by installers that the product doesn't deliver on. I will then be expected to mix on it. The venue production people will be confused by my refusal, and hours of time will be wasted attempting to educate them as to why this isn't an acceptable PA for my show.
Even if it sounds great and is built to last, I will try my best to avoid it as I have with all Behringer gear due to their business practices, which lack respect for patents and intellectual property.
I also like the barrier to entry of most line arrays. There is a certain comfort in the financial requirements of buying a line array or really any large PA. Of course this doesn't guarantee that the system will be deployed, rigged, or processed optimally, but it certainly is scary to think of a bunch of weekend warriors stacking and flying this stuff. It takes more education, experience, and knowledge to fly out a line array at the proper angles for the venue than it does to stack some trap boxes or fixed angle systems.
I get a certain comfort when a provider has L'acoustics that they have been "vetted" by L'acoustics. In theory, they have the necessary knowledge and experience to get the PA in the air safely and optimally. I know this is all in theory, but I have have never walked into a venue with Meyer, D&B, or L'acoustics brought in and scratched my head about the array.
For a while I was taking pictures of questionable arrays and was going to start a site called linedisarray.com but never got around to it.
