Re: Living History?
I would not automatically say that. We don't have any photos of the rest of the venue-ie seating area, so we don't know how deep the crowd is.
He did say there were delay stacks further back-so we may be looking at just a small part of the audience.
It could be that the VOT on stage are intended to cover the area in front of the FOH position and the stacks up on the towers to cover further beyond.
Those are large horns and therefore will have pattern control down pretty low-ie keeping the sound where it is supposed to be.
Having the bass cabinets up front would provide bass for the crowd and having them elevated would reduce the bass level for those seated close to them-so you have a more even bass through out the crowd-without killing the people down front.
Since there are chairs set up-I as also assuming that this is not a in your face kicking rock and roll act-but could be wrong.
I would assume that the VOT on stage would provide enough level for the intended area. I didn't see anywhere what the act was or style of music.
Of course there are a lot of assumptions going on here. but I still hold that the system may have been just fine for the intended usage. Hard to say without more details.
