Re: Peavey Versarray?
Hi Eric
Just a suggestion – In its day the Versarray was good box especially for the price, but have a look at some of the new stuff that’s available first. The bar has jumped up quite a bit in the last few years. You may find you need far less boxes to achieve the same SPL and the net cost isn’t that bad.
The Versarray is only rated 129dB peak for the lows, & 124 dB peak for the highs (version 2 may make about 4 db more for the HF but it’s not clear from the website) - that’s not much in 2012! http://peavey.com/assets/literature/specs/00584090_15.pdf
For example, the baby new JBL 4886 is rated to 136db peak. http://www.jblpro.com/catalog/support/getfile.aspx?doctype=3&docid=1453
We have just purchased some db Technologies T12s to do our non-rider stuff. From what Evan said (which is supported by the numbers above) its sounds like you would need about 3 a side to equal about 8 of the Versarray …FWIW the T12’s are powered and list at about $4K each (Google search for price).
There is also a fundamental problem with the Versarray – you cannot really use a reflex loaded 12 in driver past about 500Hz if you want serious line array performance, certainly not at the frequency we are talking about, it will work but you will pay a price (L-acoustics have a paper about this that I can’t find at the moment). As good as he is, not even Phil will be able to correct for this.
