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<blockquote data-quote="Dan Mortensen" data-source="post: 106490" data-attributes="member: 2826">Re: Endfire sub array under a stageI did an endfire arrangement under a stage this summer which worked very well. It was three Bag End D18Elf speakers per side, laying on their sides underneath the PA hang bays, spaced 5&#039; facing forward and delayed appropriately. The deck was just under 4&#039; clearance to ground, and the stage sides were open all around. We half-assed stacked plywood behind the stage to try to cut the rear bleed even more, but of course that had minimal effect.We tried doing a single array of all the subs, but felt the side coverage was lacking, and so went with two L-R arrays and lived with a power alley.They were there the whole summer, and sounded the best I&#039;d ever heard those subs sound, which was really good. We taped the seams in the deck so water didn&#039;t drip on them, and had them sitting on plywood on the ground.They had been stacked in previous years three high on their sides on each side of the stage, which caused lots of complaints from behind the stage, and had no where near the throw that this configuration has.It was a little noisy directly above them, but there were really no complaints from the artists who were over in the middle of the stage, largely; certainly stage spill was no more of an issue than it had been with the three-high stacks.Thanks to another directional sub thread on this forum, which is where I got the idea. There were some posts in it that showed rows of subs facing each other and tightly packed; I could never get that to work, but what we wound up doing was easy and effective.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dan Mortensen, post: 106490, member: 2826"] Re: Endfire sub array under a stage I did an endfire arrangement under a stage this summer which worked very well. It was three Bag End D18Elf speakers per side, laying on their sides underneath the PA hang bays, spaced 5' facing forward and delayed appropriately. The deck was just under 4' clearance to ground, and the stage sides were open all around. We half-assed stacked plywood behind the stage to try to cut the rear bleed even more, but of course that had minimal effect. We tried doing a single array of all the subs, but felt the side coverage was lacking, and so went with two L-R arrays and lived with a power alley. They were there the whole summer, and sounded the best I'd ever heard those subs sound, which was really good. We taped the seams in the deck so water didn't drip on them, and had them sitting on plywood on the ground. They had been stacked in previous years three high on their sides on each side of the stage, which caused lots of complaints from behind the stage, and had no where near the throw that this configuration has. It was a little noisy directly above them, but there were really no complaints from the artists who were over in the middle of the stage, largely; certainly stage spill was no more of an issue than it had been with the three-high stacks. Thanks to another directional sub thread on this forum, which is where I got the idea. There were some posts in it that showed rows of subs facing each other and tightly packed; I could never get that to work, but what we wound up doing was easy and effective. [/QUOTE]

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