Turbosound Flashline

Re: Turbosound Flashline

Helge Dr. Bentsen said:
Looks like Turbosound is gearing up to compete with the big boys again :)

http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/turbosound_introduces_new_flashline_large_scale_line_array/live
http://www.turbosound.com/flashline_landing/index.shtml

Heard it at a festival this summer, sounded pretty convincing to my ears. Any thoughts?
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Are those the ones that have a bunch of folded horns in one cabinet? I remember someone posting a photo of a super-cool "cut-through" model somewhere. Anyone else remember the photo who can find it?
 
Re: Turbosound Flashline

Helge Dr. Bentsen said:
Looks like Turbosound is gearing up to compete with the big boys again :)

http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/turbosound_introduces_new_flashline_large_scale_line_array/live
http://www.turbosound.com/flashline_landing/index.shtml

Heard it at a festival this summer, sounded pretty convincing to my ears. Any thoughts?
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Was that at Øyafestivalen in August?

Turbo were one of the biggest names in touring sound with TMS3s and later with the Flash and Floodlights. As you said … it looks like they are getting serious again - now they are no longer part of Harmon.
I have some Flex Array, and since the FIR settings were released we have been extremely happy with them… excellent sound quality and lots of SPL.
I have not heard the Flashline but I am very interested to hear your impressions … at 149dB peak they are a very serious box, much louder than the Flex and I suspect sound even better??
 
Re: Turbosound Flashline

Familiar indeed. :-) In the interest of accuracy, the blue faced LABS are not recommended; they are required. The Flashline is only offered as a complete turnkey system. Processing, amps, racks, cabling, speakers, carts, flyware. The buyer only needs to provide an appropriate audio signal in analog, AES or Dante format. From all accounts, this looks to be a very exciting system at the top tier of the market. There is little doubt that this thing will have the horespower to get up and run with the best of them. The question of course is, "how does it sound?". I am very interested to hear some first hand reports. Given it's lineage, I would expect that it is going to sound very good.

Back to the amps. We are presently converting our Flex rigs over to the LAB/Lake PLM20000ks. We have been very happy with the performance of our Flex rigs from day one, but the FIR filter set and PLM amps really put the cherry on top of the sunday. Sweet.

and...on a totally different note...how do you post icons within your message? I tried to highlight the choices I saw and it showed up in my title. I tried to type in the symbols for a smiley face and thats what I got, and no icon. I'm feeling a little challenged.
 
Re: Turbosound Flashline

Steve Payne said:
I'm looking at Ease Focus Prediction Plots for a Flashline rig trimmed out a 40 feet (12 tops flown over 8 subs per side). 120db broadband, unweighted at 400 feet.
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When you say broadband, what exactly do you mean? 8kHz? Do they do separate processing on the long throw part of the array?
 
Re: Turbosound Flashline

Hi Bennett,

FWIW there are two versions of Ease Focus. Version 2 lets you select 1/3 oct at a particular center frequency, 1 oct, 3 oct’s or broad band
You can select the input signal as IEC 268, EIA426B or AES2 broad band (pink). You can calculate a 3D SPL map of the venue with multiple speaker sources using the GLL file for the particular speakers.
It can predict A weighted or linear as well as S/N ratios.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=banp-lQrcxA

Version 1 will not let you model the venue in 3 D and uses a much simpler acoustic definition of the speaker.

As a guess, the Flashline should about 10 or more dB up on the flex array with the same number of boxes.

Peter
 
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