Re: Heavy speakers, to fly or use a tripod?
Yeah but I have been going around and around for years looking for a solution to the same problem.
Outside I am still with scaffolding and indoors using 10 space shock racks as spacers.
I also paid $500 for a set of balanced tilters for larger SOS rigs.
People seem to ignore the cost of safely aiming in the portable PA world.
I sat and listened and hated the way the mains were hung for the first 6 months I was working in the club. I finally went and figured out what I thought was needed to do it right, called polar focus and the quote for proper rigging with the splay, trim, and tilt I wanted was 3/4 of the value of the speakers. I fixed the splay with some straps and spacers ($14), the trim is OK but not great, and the tilt will never be right.
Point the speakers at the people is an easy enough concept but to do it easily, cost effectively, and safely seems to be a pick 2 of the three situation. Since I am not budging on the safely part all the options I have seen are either not easy or not cost effective.
Even Mike Pyle's very nice totums which would be great indoors are probably $600+ per speaker when the parts are added up.
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