With apologies to the OP, I'll go a little further down this road for a little more clarification.SethRocksYou wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 8:24 pm
I recall reading that you never really got around to dialing those in. That you pulled them from service before the band got a sour taste in their mouth for DIY gear... or something to that effect. Is it at all possible that you just fed them too much bottom end, or more than would be in typical recorded content that the OP is interested in reproducing? Do you feel a Jack 110 would perform better in bass and kick monitor duty?
What I never got dialed in was the honky-ness of the mids in the vocal range. It's important to define the job of monitors in the particular situation. A typical stage will have a live drum kit and amplified instruments - so the monitors have to be able to cut through to be heard. The WH10 can certainly do that as that's what it's designed to do.
However, on a stage that is quiet - which was the case in my band at that time (Edrums and guitar and bass running direct), the attributes that allowed the vocals to cut through on a regular stage were not pleasing when trying to achieve a more balanced sound out of the monitors. The farting out of the bass and kick would certainly be more prevalent with live music transients than recorded music, but that wasn't the area that needed more dialing in. So, there were two different issues in what I was using it for.
As far as feeding them too much bottom end, no that wasn't the problem. i was giving them what they needed to sound balanced, but yes we wanted to get some decent response below 100hz.
Would a Jack 10 fare better than a WH10 on drum monitor duty? That goes back to the question of what you are putting in it. I do believe it would fare better with full range content and the whole band mix than the WH10, but I wouldn't ever ask it to pull that duty. If it's just vocal content - then the WH10 would be fine. Neither of those are suited to a full band, full range mix of a band at a live gig volume. To get enough bottom end to please the drummer and the bass player - and me as well, we went back to the direct radiating Yamahas with a 15 and a horn. That's a place where those harmonics probably really helped with the perception of power on the low end.....especially being only a few feet in front of them.
All of that is why I eventually built this as a drum monitor.
I no longer use it at shows as most drummers are happy with the Yamahas - which are much better than they are used to getting and I don't have to haul the T24. Plus, I don't want to give it up as my garage monitor.
There's always more to picking the right tool than just SPL charts.
Bottom line is that this project is so ham-strung with the size/weight/low power parameters that it's like taking a knife to a gun fight. You just do the best you can. If there is a cart involved with hauling it all around - then build a Jack 15 - it's bigger and heavier than the Jack 10 or 12, but lighter than the Omni 12 or 15. I have built one of those for bass duty and it booms pretty danged good with a 2515 and 75 watts of power.