First Outing With OTOP 12 JARRAY

[cave]

Hi folks, hang in there for review of my first gig with the otop12 jarray.

My church held a convention for an average of seven thousand participants over the last three weeks in three different locations in Ghana. 14th to 31st August 2014. I won the bid to provide sound for the event so I decided to rent a friends system (tasso 960 series and CVR 218 subs). My friends father who happens to be a seasoned audio engineer, went along with his team to set up their stuff. I set up the Otops on the side to provide fills to compliment the tassos since they were set up high to provide coverage for an open field about 20x40meters wide in front of the main stage.

The tassos played quite well together with the cvr subs. My friends father was amazed at the Otops clarity in mid range and highs when I a/b the Otops against the tassos. He kept giving compliments to the design. We had to deploy delay stacks to fill the dead spots under the canopies at about 40 meters from the stage and another set of cvr full ranges 80 meters from the stage. I decided to split the Otops up into four stacks of two cabs. They were amazing at the job. I really love the output so much because they silenced my competitors.

I Eq'ed and crossovered the cabs in my speaker management system as shown in the jpegs below. I must say the boxes sound awsome. I have a project this week and will use the Otops only for tops. I will get you comments on that project soon.

[Arben]

Looks like a very nice build, very pro looking

[Chris_Allen]

I agree - very impressive.

[BoostFab]

really like your clean rigging hardwares, and the grills

[cave]

More Pictures

[J_Dunavin]

[DJPhatman]

Sweet work there, cave! Can you give a comparison to the array cabs in the pictures? How did a stack of 4 OTops sound against a stack of those other cabs? Power to SPL, overall impressions, any comments from others? Please share as much information as you can, or care to. Thanks and congratulations on a well-thought-out build.

[cave]

Sweet work there, cave! Can you give a comparison to the array cabs in the pictures? How did a stack of 4 OTops sound against a stack of those other cabs? Power to SPL, overall impressions, any comments from others? Please share as much information as you can, or care to. Thanks and congratulations on a well-thought-out build.

Type......................................3-way full range
Frequency Response.............80Hz-16KHz (one enclosure)
                                               40Hz-16KHz (eight enclosure)
LF System.............................2¡Á12" cone.  Horn-loaded
MF System...........................2¡Á10" cone.  Horn-loaded
HF System............................2¡Á2" voice coil compression driver.
                                               Horn-loaded
RMS Power Handling ..........LF£º800W£»MF£º600W£»
                       HF£º300W
Peak Power Handling ...........LF£º1600W£»MF£º1200W£»
                       HF£º600W
Impedance.............................LF£º2¡Á8¦¸£»MF£º2¡Á8¦¸£»
                                              HF£º2¡Á8¦¸
Sensitivity (1W/1M)............ LF Single Enclosure£º102dB
                                              MF Single Enclosure£º106dB
                                              HF Single Enclosure£º110dB
Max. SPL........................... ..LF£º132dB£» MF£º138dB£»
                       HF£º142dB
Diving Mode............. ....... Bi-Amp
Recommended Amp..........I1  for  2pcs  HF
                                              I3  for  2pcs  MF
                                              I4  for  2pcs  LF
Recommended  Controller..TASSO DSP360
Dispersion.............................80º H¡Á6º V
Horn throat size..................1"(25mm)
Voice coil size.....................2"(44mm)
Dimensions HWD(mm).......384¡Á1145¡Á750
Shipping HWD(mm)........... 470¡Á1235¡Á835 (0.48CBM)  
NW/GW(Kg)........................124.5/130.5

It wont be fair to compare the Otop 12 Jarray to the specs of the power of the Tasso 960s above. those are really huge cabs but in clarity and throw the Otops really shine. I had to use them as delay stacks under very large canopies and they really did shine through.

[cave]

A friend of mine who never believed in DIYs was stunned by the perfomance of the boxes he wants to use them for his next gig. He couldnt believe his eyes and what he heard coming from the such small cabs. He went full circle around the boxes serverally just to figure out how that perfomance was possible.

[Bruce Weldy]

A friend of mine who never believed in DIYs was stunned by the perfomance of the boxes he wants to use them for his next gig. He couldnt believe his eyes and what he heard coming from the such small cabs. He went full circle around the boxes serverally just to figure out how that perfomance was possible.

Just tell him that you sprinkle magic dust on 'em.

[cave]

Thanks for the compliments I will post a Google map depicting our coverage area soon

[88h88]

Man those look so good. Congratulations.

[PulseMan]

Hi Michael

Good work there my man and your cabs look great too.

PulseMan

[cave]

Hi Michael

Good work there my man and your cabs look great too.

PulseMan

Thanks Bro, lots of inspiration came from you. We have more to talk about.

[markandersonsa]

Nice work cave. Neat.
BT W Love your country. Ghana is a tropical paradise!
Beautiful beaches.
A beach party with your J Array....... Now there's an idea!