Hello from South Carolina

[tizlaney]

I am glad to be a new user on the forum.

For the past several years I have been checking out this site and have finally decided to take the leap into the BFM world and build me a set of subs. I believe I read the entire thread on the "old" DJ Forums site many years ago; I was just never quite ready to take the leap.

My story is one that should be rather familiar to many DJ's; it started with the high school garage band that had lots of talent but no direction. After several gigs we discovered that maybe it just wasn’t meant to be. However, I was always the guy with the music (lp's, 45's, tapes, cd's, now a hard drive) at parties so naturally it was an easy decision to start DJing for some extra cash.
I free lanced using my cars stereo system in high school and into college I evolved into spinning the tunes on whatever sound system was available at the party. So naturally it was an easy decision to buy some pro audio (actually it was not even close to being "PRO") gear at the ripe age of 21.

My first speakers were Tosh 15's, I purchased them out of the classified ads and met the guy at a gas station. I paid somewhere around $100 bucks for them, I added a pawn shop peavey amp, pyramid mixer, and Gemini cd players, some microphone cables for speaker cables (yes seriously, they had the correct ends on them) and I was ready to go.
10 YEARS , and many equipment purchases later, I am still at it. I have evolved from the dual Gemini CD decks – through SL1210’s with Serato, to Denon 3700’S (still miss them) to my current configuration of Numark NS6 with Itch. I will save my current sound system (Mackie and EV) for a later post with my question on subs.

I DJ mostly for weddings, reunions, school dances (not many), and community festivals (maybe 1 or 2 a year), and several social dance clubs. The crowd size ranges from 50-300 and rarely up to 500. In my spare time (not much) I am remodeling my 90 year old craftsman style home and when I can get away from that I enjoy kayaking, riding my motorcycle, and building furniture. I spend my days selling ABB Automation and Control products and engineering/programming services to various industries and municipalities in the states of FL, GA, SC, NC, TN, and VA.

I look forward to learning and participating in this knowledgeable community!

[Chris_Allen]

Hi and welcome the forum.

You can go a long way with what you have, I think there was more for me to learn in setup and positioning but building a pair of T48's certainly helped.

Do you own the plans or are you in the decision making process? The full CD is well worth the money.

I suppose you will choosing between the T30, T45 and T60 for your weapon of choice.

[tizlaney]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I am looking to build a set of Tubas. My questions is Tuba 24's or Tuba 30's ?

Here is my post on that issue:
http://billfitzmaurice.info/forum/viewt ... =1&t=20613

[Gauss]

Welcome. There's more than amazing speaker plans here, also a lot of sound knowledge. You can spend long hours reading stuff that will actually help you do a better job.

Here's a way to get instant improvement: Buy speaker stands for the tops so you can get the subs out. Now stack your subs so that the cones are within two feet of the wall. We did this with my friend's non-BFM PA and the results were obvious.

[Grant Bunter]

Hi tizlaney,
G'day and welcome to the forum

[doncolga]

Hey man. Welcome! I don't think you'll go wrong with any sub selection here.

[tizlaney]

Thanks Guys and I do have stands. The venue for this pic is notorious about setting up stuff in your way; to the immediate right of my speakers (opposite of my table) is where they put the cake, in both corners they ended up setting up cocktail tables.

Here's a way to get instant improvement: Buy speaker stands for the tops so you can get the subs out. Now stack your subs so that the cones are within two feet of the wall. We did this with my friend's non-BFM PA and the results were obvious.

Luckily I have started discussing this with people when they book this place.

[Grant Bunter]

It's all good, plenty of people set up just like that pic.

What a lot of people don't understand is, while it looks good aesthetically, it's actually causing frequency cancellations in the subs output band.
Splitting subs requires distance. 2 subs need to be more than 56 feet apart to not cause cancellation at 40Hz, and further still if you're getting lower than that out of those cabs.

If you can't point them at a wall or corner, at least have them together, side by side. Use one of your stands to hold up the other top on the other side. It looks different, but sounds better.

And try this one day (even at home), put your tops vertically stacked, with HF horn to HF horn (ie top cab upside down). This increases HF output...

[Gauss]

I hear you on venue layout -- at one wedding reception I had, there was no dance floor or place for a DJ. We had discussed layout, but the DJ/Bride plans get trumped by venue/Bride plans. So, I asked what they would do, and they planned to pull tables to the side and put the dance floor in the middle of the room. Tables packed together where I needed to set up my lights. In the end, I solved the location issue using the balcony, but I had to rush to make every thing work on time.

And my sub often ends up somewhere near the DJ table, on it's side to avoid being seen, which often leads to way too much bass for me by the end of the night.

[escapemcp]

And my sub often ends up somewhere near the DJ table, on it's side to avoid being seen, which often leads to way too much bass for me by the end of the night.

Corner loading may help you to get the subs out of the way in some situations, and you get the extra output that this brings for free (see placement thread sticky).