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<blockquote data-quote="Tim McCulloch" data-source="post: 141503" data-attributes="member: 67">Re: Infocomm???I think it&#039;s easy to forget just how &quot;bad&quot; big 3D arrays of trap boxes could sound, too... and that properly designed and deployed arrays of those same boxes could sound pretty darn good.&nbsp; Tom stuffed all of that into a box or 2 and made it play nice with all the pieces and parts.One of the more popular proprietary rigs was the ShowCo Prism® and (limited production Prism II®).&nbsp; I worked a bunch of it as a stagehand and never developed a liking for the way it sounded.&nbsp; Many folks thought of it as a &quot;rock &#039;n&#039; roll rig&quot;.&nbsp; Yeah, it got way loud and had a penetrating quality that some liked... for the time, put a lot of SPL into a fairly small box and had sophisticated processing to do vertical beam steering (along with some internal inclination/declination of transducers) that was quite the thing.&nbsp; But most of the time what I heard from them was unpleasant.Another rig that I liked much more was/is the EV X-Array, but it takes a patient and skilled system tech or it&#039;s no better than the Prism.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure how it&#039;s processed now or what presets/training/EASE tools come with it.&nbsp; I remember when one of the big Holiday shows carried X-Array and the system tech basically started with a core coverage area that he kept the same for arenas; another for theaters, and built on additional coverage for each individual venue.&nbsp; It seemed time consuming and various adjustments to loudspeaker suspension components gave opportunity to hang stuff wrong and not catch it until the rig was going out...&nbsp; But when well designed it sounded pretty nice, certainly better than anything I&#039;d heard come out of a Prism rig.In a nutshell:&nbsp; The ability to create interference within an array of portable, commercial loudspeakers pre-dates the line array by at least 20 years.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tim McCulloch, post: 141503, member: 67"] Re: Infocomm??? I think it's easy to forget just how "bad" big 3D arrays of trap boxes could sound, too... and that properly designed and deployed arrays of those same boxes could sound pretty darn good. Tom stuffed all of that into a box or 2 and made it play nice with all the pieces and parts. One of the more popular proprietary rigs was the ShowCo Prism® and (limited production Prism II®). I worked a bunch of it as a stagehand and never developed a liking for the way it sounded. Many folks thought of it as a "rock 'n' roll rig". Yeah, it got way loud and had a penetrating quality that some liked... [I]for the time[/I], put a lot of SPL into a fairly small box and had sophisticated processing to do vertical beam steering (along with some internal inclination/declination of transducers) that was quite the thing. But most of the time what I heard from them was unpleasant. Another rig that I liked much more was/is the EV X-Array, but it takes a patient and skilled system tech or it's no better than the Prism. I'm not sure how it's processed now or what presets/training/EASE tools come with it. I remember when one of the big Holiday shows carried X-Array and the system tech basically started with a core coverage area that he kept the same for arenas; another for theaters, and built on additional coverage for each individual venue. It seemed time consuming and various adjustments to loudspeaker suspension components gave opportunity to hang stuff wrong and not catch it until the rig was going out... But when well designed it sounded pretty nice, certainly better than anything I'd heard come out of a Prism rig. In a nutshell: [B]The ability to create interference within an array of portable, commercial loudspeakers pre-dates the line array by at least 20 years[/B]. [/QUOTE]

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