So stupid!

[John Chiara]

I am having a quickly heated discussion with local promoters/provider about the inappropriate deployment of head high stage stacked line arrays. Any advice when the provider asks me head on why I am backing this opinion. I would include a pic but my phone won't do it. I'm sure you can visualize the setup. 3' high stage with 4 small line array boxes all facing straight out. 30 feet back you can't see or hear the top end of the system. Talent booker is a friend and is dismayed at how bad the sound is and wants to approach those in charge and try to get a solution. Politics are involved.

 

[Rob Spence]

Which are you in favor of? I am confused.


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[John Chiara]

Re: So stupid!

Which are you in favor of? I am confused.


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Sorry. Thus venue is perfect for a stacked trap system, which is what was there last year and which is what I would have used.

 

[Ben Lawrence]

Re: So stupid!

Might be a little too late if the system has already been specced accepted and deployed.

 

[John Chiara]

Re: So stupid!

Might be a little too late if the system has already been specced accepted and deployed.

There was no real spec. This is a municipal bid situation with no specific technical requirement in the proposal. They assumed they were getting the same setup as last year.

 

[Brad Weber]

Re: So stupid!

Is it the high end being blocked by the audience or is it going over their heads? How would a ground stacked trap array on the stage differ that much? Maybe some pictures would help.

 

[Kemper Watson]

Re: So stupid!

Seems to me the array is firing into the first row. Needs to be more than head high..

 

[Matt Lillie]

Re: So stupid!

Get out your fancy LED flashlight, hold it where the stacked rig is and have people walk around in front of it. Then ask them if the light gets blocked or if it can still be seen at the back of the room.

 

[Bennett Prescott]

Re: So stupid!

I bet it's all pinned at zero degrees, too.

Bennett Prescott's One Piece of Advice for Line Array Deployers: Never Use Zero Degrees. Never.

That one simple rule will solve the majority of funny HF lobing problems in throw and go deployments.

 

[John Chiara]

Re: So stupid!

I bet it's all pinned at zero degrees, too.

Bennett Prescott's One Piece of Advice for Line Array Deployers: Never Use Zero Degrees. Never.

That one simple rule will solve the majority of funny HF lobing problems in throw and go deployments.

Right on Bennett. Flat as a pancake. I find it a great way to make 4 expensive small line array boxes sound like a crappy 90* trap box.