Re: Line array for 1500 cap venue
Bingo.
I also find it a bit disingenuous for folks who need "big boy box" output specify a compact line array "because it will cover better". Sure, you get finer gradation between elements, but if it doesn't put out enough sound, it doesn't matter.
We have a venue where we hang 4 - 4889 from lifts. No rigging points for audio. Trim height of 14.5' is limited by the 10' overhang that covers the perimeter of the room where about half the audience is. We have to shoot under that overhang if the audience is going to hear the show. Because of these 2 factors it is not possible to trim @ 24' (where I'd like to be, and hang more boxes, too). It also means that more work is required of the front fills. Sometimes architecture requires compromises that we don't particularly care for.
I've spent a lot of time trying to do things "right" and I still do, but after almost 30 years in the biz I know when I'm not going to get what is right. My job as system engineer is to hand over to the BE a rig ready for his/her tuning, sufficient for the genre and venue, and that works with the compromises presented by architecture, band gear, set, video, etc.
The rest of you can piss and moan about this, I'm going to spend the boss's money and get another 16 4889.
