...on both of the stages with live presentations the speaker system consisted of a pair of TWO EV sx250s on tripod stands right next to each other with the speaker grilles lined up flush in a pretty much straight line.
With the main source material being talking heads on one stage and some guy playing back loops and samples on a vibraphone sized thing covered with drum pads on the other I guess the comb filtering didn't make THAT much difference but Grampa makes the following observations and guesses.
In both rooms they might have needed wider coverage on the first two days of the show and those speaker actually WERE splayed to cover that angle.
On the third and final day (when I was there the strike of the "main stage" in room 2005 was already well underway) the smaller crowds needed less horizontal coverage but since four speakers were ordered and paid for then four speakers had to remain visible in case the organizers were paying attention and counting.
Me, I would have discreetly turned off the outside two boxes ;-).
PS: the best part of the guy playing the pads was when the cameraman who was shooting RIGHT IN HIS FACE stepped on and disconnected the power to the pad thingie, making things real quiet for a few minutes.
With the main source material being talking heads on one stage and some guy playing back loops and samples on a vibraphone sized thing covered with drum pads on the other I guess the comb filtering didn't make THAT much difference but Grampa makes the following observations and guesses.
In both rooms they might have needed wider coverage on the first two days of the show and those speaker actually WERE splayed to cover that angle.
On the third and final day (when I was there the strike of the "main stage" in room 2005 was already well underway) the smaller crowds needed less horizontal coverage but since four speakers were ordered and paid for then four speakers had to remain visible in case the organizers were paying attention and counting.
Me, I would have discreetly turned off the outside two boxes ;-).
PS: the best part of the guy playing the pads was when the cameraman who was shooting RIGHT IN HIS FACE stepped on and disconnected the power to the pad thingie, making things real quiet for a few minutes.
