...so from that point work started on another T60 and it was finished mere minutes before being loaded into the van and driven down to the club. The room is an interesting construction, it's rectangular but the middle section has a raised ceiling, no soft surfaces, all hard bare surfaces and multiple pillars as it's a basement with a 4 storey building on top. So we set the subs up in a few places and found that right in front of the stage yielded the best output, it was about 10' from the rear wall and in the section of the room with the raised ceiling. In testing volume was kept relatively conservative, the whole setup was whomping out 116db crystal clear at one point, absolutely no strained sounds whatsoever, it was beautiful. It was then turned down because that's a quite frankly ridiculous volume.
Fun was had with the DEQ2496 as for some reason it was RTAing the tops and one sub on one channel and the other sub on the other. Heads were scratched and the unit reset until we got to a point where we could RTA the system as a whole. Any ideas about that one fellas?!
Anyway things were tweaked and for the first hour I was shitting in in case something decided to kill itself. I really didn't have to worry. 3 of us played an hour each and we had Tom Demac headline the event, he was cruising at the same volume and then obviously thought 'fuck it' as he got into it and redlined the hell out of the mixer. Despite this it still sounded far better than any other system I've heard in that place... For a setup consisteing of 4x 12" drivers and some piezos it destroyed. The system held up superbly, the limiters on the subs at a somewhat conservative 40V and they were lighting every now and again. The only issue was the bloody Allen and Heath mixer I borrowed from work! Demac seems to favour a route of removing the bass from a mix and doing his work before bringing it back in, at one point though the bass dropped completely and the top end got rather light. I was stood at the bar and looked over to see one of my colleagues looking at the mixer so I quickly made my way across the dance floor to diagnose the fault. The bloody IEC had come loose somehow... Connection sorted and it was back to the tunes.
The only 'problem' with this setup is the fact it sounds far too clean. By the end of the night the volume was pushed and would've been at least the 116db we were playing with earlier and yet a couple of people said it didn't sound loud enough! On the dance floor you were being assaulted by thick waves of bass and the tops were stupidly clear yet it wasn't loud enough?! It seems people have come to understand that loud = distorted as hell...!
Basically the system destroyed that venue and I've got until August to build another pair of T60s and finish the other pair of premium driver'd OT12s that didn't get done for this event.
Bill as always your designs are perfection, if you were to ask me if I thought I'd be building pro grade speakers and running and event a couple of years ago I would've laughed in your face. I appreciate your work massively, as do my collective.
Next one is in August and I'll make sure to get a stack of video and loads of photos.
Promoting your own gig with your own made sound rig.