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<blockquote data-quote="drew gandy" data-source="post: 51091" data-attributes="member: 880">Re: Monitor Horn Dispersion; 90x40 or 40x90 settings?One thing to be clear about is that a typical wedge with a 12&quot; or 15&quot; is going to have, more or less, a round pattern from it&#039;s lowest frequencies up to just below the crossover point.&nbsp; In an &quot;economy&quot; wedge this will likely be well above 1Khz and even above 2Khz.&nbsp; So, the pattern flip that Ivan shows will have different ramifications with a smaller horn and a crossover to a woofer.&nbsp; The other anomaly is what happens to the pattern when you put a box on the floor.&nbsp; There will be notches in the response that result from the sound coming off the front of the box and bouncing off the floor (and potentially the ceiling in some venues) that will affect the sound at a performer&#039;s ears as well as at the vocal mic. And there are other things that happen when a speaker comes into proximity with a boundary.&nbsp; All these different factors help show why there is sometimes very little practical difference between cheap and expensive gear.&nbsp; Sometimes it&#039;s not about which hammer you use but the fact that you&#039;re using a hammer at all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="drew gandy, post: 51091, member: 880"] Re: Monitor Horn Dispersion; 90x40 or 40x90 settings? One thing to be clear about is that a typical wedge with a 12" or 15" is going to have, more or less, a round pattern from it's lowest frequencies up to just below the crossover point. In an "economy" wedge this will likely be well above 1Khz and even above 2Khz. So, the pattern flip that Ivan shows will have different ramifications with a smaller horn and a crossover to a woofer. The other anomaly is what happens to the pattern when you put a box on the floor. There will be notches in the response that result from the sound coming off the front of the box and bouncing off the floor (and potentially the ceiling in some venues) that will affect the sound at a performer's ears as well as at the vocal mic. And there are other things that happen when a speaker comes into proximity with a boundary. All these different factors help show why there is sometimes very little practical difference between cheap and expensive gear. Sometimes it's not about which hammer you use but the fact that you're using a hammer at all. [/QUOTE]

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