We spent last week installing everything at the church. We were rushing to get everything ready for Sunday morning and didn't finish till late on Saturday. I forgot to bring my camera, so the only shot I took was with my phone before we were finished and only had two of the OmniTops hanging.
Due to our low ceiling height and wide room, we spread the four OmniTops across the front of the stage, splayed outward to hit the audience. We used our four existing QSC I-282H and mounted them horizontally, about halfway back in the room to catch the back rows (on a time delay). Bill suggested that we sell the QSC's and build more OmniTops to do the job, but the ceiling height was just too low for OmniTops. The T39's seemed to work best in the front left area (green boxes in picture). Surprisingly, they sounded better with the mouths facing outward vs wall loaded. I'm going to make a v-plate this week since I didn't have time last week.
For our processing, we're using the
Symetrix Jupiter 8. We didn't have nearly as much time to tune them as I would have liked. Since the Jupiter 8 doesn't have RTA built in, I used REW's RTA function to get everything somewhat flat. We were kind of burnt out from being there every night, so we got the EQ close and went home.
The first time that we were able to hear a live band through the system was on Sunday morning during the soundcheck. Overall, everything sounds pretty good, but the OmniTops still needs some EQ work to be great. We had plenty of compliments on the sound quality, so it's not too far off. The dispersion of the melded arrays really help out with the wide area we have to cover. The room we're in is kind of a nightmare for sound reinforcement and still needs work in the acoustic dampening department.
The T39's are a vast improvement over what we had, but ideally we need at least two more. We tried the subs in a few different locations, but they sounded best in the spot I mentioned earlier. They sounded REALLY good when corner loaded in the mid-left corner, but it would have made that section of people go deaf from sitting there. For the first hour that we had the T39's on, we kept having to wipe them down because of the ceiling tile dust that was falling on them.
We're going to stop by a few more times this week to dial everything in, so I'm confident that it will sound even better this Sunday.
Congrats on the build! With my t39 I rattled the Insulation "fuzz" strips between out of the crossbeams in my basement!
