Re: Purpose of having a small array facing the stage?...
Hey Guys,
one way to deploy this type of setup using line arrays for sidefills and "spot" wedges, is to engineer the focus of the arrays to not overlap in the middle, maybe even a little "hole"
If they overlap you have the classic comb filter ripples and uneven frequency response.(feedback central) With no overlap as your artist approaches one side he walks out of the field of the other side. When he's exactly in the middle the center fill wedges take over, you could also delay their arrival time, but if your artist moves around it can get complicated.
Also having different signals in different sources can help the artist to hear things better. Many times multiple wedges can help instruments from crowding each other out.
As an experiment setup a pair of wedges as a stereo pair and put Snare in one and voice in the other, then compare this to snare and voice in both wedges (Kudo's to Dave Rat on this one)
hope this helps,
ferrit
