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Re: What does one do without prediction software?As Ryan stated, the safety and rigging issues come first, but as far as the sound it seems to pretty much become trial and error with no real way to predict the results in advance other than to mock up the scenario and adjust and measure until you get an acceptable result. After doing that nultiple times for a particular product you may start to get a sense of how it behaves as an array but you'd probably still want to verify it.One of the major potential advantages of a line array is being able to be configured and adjusted to fit an application and venue, but because of how line arrays work the resulting performance of the array represents a much more complex interaction than for a typical two or three splayed box array. Companies who don't offer any array prediction software for their line arrays seem to either a) think typical users of those products are not capable of properly applying such software and prefer to have them tell you what to do, b) do not understand the practical applications of line arrays or c) are perhaps more interested in selling products rather than offering solutions.
Re: What does one do without prediction software?
As Ryan stated, the safety and rigging issues come first, but as far as the sound it seems to pretty much become trial and error with no real way to predict the results in advance other than to mock up the scenario and adjust and measure until you get an acceptable result. After doing that nultiple times for a particular product you may start to get a sense of how it behaves as an array but you'd probably still want to verify it.
One of the major potential advantages of a line array is being able to be configured and adjusted to fit an application and venue, but because of how line arrays work the resulting performance of the array represents a much more complex interaction than for a typical two or three splayed box array. Companies who don't offer any array prediction software for their line arrays seem to either a) think typical users of those products are not capable of properly applying such software and prefer to have them tell you what to do, b) do not understand the practical applications of line arrays or c) are perhaps more interested in selling products rather than offering solutions.
