laidback

My experience with Unity cabinets was that they sounded wonderful, but lacked the edginess (probably distortion) that many people equate to loudness. Especially in a punk situation it seems you'd want that "harshness" when you're pushing the system. I'm really curious to hear more about how they sound when they're pushed. I was giving serious thought to replacing my EV SX500's with them, but the EV's just sounded more "rock-n-roll." I have installed Unitys in a church and the client and I are both very satisfied with them.

Speakers: 4 EV SX500+ 15" 2-ways. 2 Community CSX60 4X15 subs. 4 Yorkville NX20 12" 2-ways. 2 Yorkville E12 moitors. Power: 4 QSC RMX1850, racked together for FOH. 1 RMX 1450, 1 RMX 850 and 1 Yorkville AP1200 racked together for monitors. Mixers: Spirit LX7-24, Mackie 1604VLZ. Processing: 1 ART HQ 231, 2 ART HQ215, Lexicon MPX100, DBX166XL, Behringer Quad comp/limit/gate, Aphex Aural Exciter (don't recall the model,)Denon CD/Cassette player. We also have a Behringer powered box mixer and a gig rack with a Spirit 12 channel board, PLX1602, DBX 215 EQ, PV CDS Compressor, and Lexicon MPX100 all racked together. We put the whole mess together using SX 500's for tops and Community's for subs running off the 4 RMX1850's for festivals. We use the Yorkvilles for monitors for larger shows. The gig rack gets used for my acoustic 3-piece with NX20's for tops and E12s for monitors. In addition we do some corporate rentals, using whichever components seem best suited to the job. I'm pretty happy with the gear overall. I'd like to replace the subs, but they do get the job done. If I were starting over, I'd go with a narrower-angle 12" top and better subs and cross over higher than now, but honestly the system sounds pretty good and gets plenty loud. So far everything has been extremely reliable, but we have enough stuff that we could handle a pretty major failure and keep going. A word on the Aphex: We had serious issues getting the "thump" we wanted. The Aphex resolved that problem efficiently and cost-effectively. It can certainly be overdone, and I guess you could get there with some creative EQ, but the Aphex makes it simple and it can be adjusted on the fly to get what you want. Our rig is set up with all 4 of the 1850's in bridge mode running into 4 ohm loads. We're in South Carolina, and we've run this stuff under some pretty hot conditions. They've never given us a moment's trouble. We are careful about clipping and never let the tops clip.