Re: Line array for 1500 cap venue
In a smaller market, though, what's realistic? We can't all be the 1400 cap 9:30 club in DC (with 8 Js per side and 3 B2s per side).
I spent many years touring clubs your size, typically lucky enough to be bringing my own desk through, and while I've been fortunate lately have been touring at a larger scale, I'm sure there'll be a day I'll do some clubs again. I'll be the most happy with a rig that's been well-maintained and properly deployed in the room, be it KF850s, Cs, Alpha, Vertec, and so on and so forth. I came into this industry running production in an 850 cap "theatre" in a smaller market that was one of the big rooms for the town and the small stop for tours hitting larger rooms. The rig was nothing spectacular, but was well maintained, well suited to the room, and sounded pretty decent. It was "fine" on the sub count, but could have used a little more, so I definitely recommend over-building the sub count.
I'm with a lot of other people here in pointing out that a rig is more than just the boxes that get bought. There's processing, amps, consoles, wedges, mics, stands, cables, subsnakes, power distribution, and so on and so forth.
