Members Tomm Williams Posted December 10, 2013 Members Share Posted December 10, 2013 A local theatre group asked me to suggest some replacement speakers for their venue. They want to replace their aging (and junk) Carvin 2x15" cabinets. The venue is approx. 60' wide x 120' deep x 30' ceiling hardwood floors, concrete walls and ceiling with limited treatment. They have the ability to fly the cabs at about 12' off the ground, fly points are located about 3' in from each side wall. The budget is $3000 for the pair.Their productions are the usual theatre thing, canned music (occasionally live) and headset actors running around. Volumes are usually modest,their seating arrangement has the closest rows about 25' from the stage, they might benefit from a lip fill also. I believe the seating capacity is around 250-300.Suggested cabs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted December 10, 2013 Members Share Posted December 10, 2013 This is the type of venue that I would look at one of the longer column based line arrays. I have used this and in music mode is an ideal mustical theatre solution. The long array is essential to good horizontal broadband pattern control. They come with wall brackets which put it right up to a boundery adding ~3dB to the real world sensitivity. Add a little DSP and a couple of compact subs (Eons or better the PRX-715 and it's very user friendly. Great for a light duty band (pit band), acoustic acts, light rock, jazz, and especially headsets and lavs running around. http://www.jblpro.com/catalog/general/Product.aspx?PId=447&MId=2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pro Sound Guy Posted December 10, 2013 Members Share Posted December 10, 2013 A wee bit low in sensitivity but a very interesting product no doubthttp://www.fullcompass.com/common/files/17788-CBT200LA-1.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted December 11, 2013 Members Share Posted December 11, 2013 Sounds pretty good for this kind of application. Not the cheapest solution but good for intelligibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tomm Williams Posted December 11, 2013 Author Members Share Posted December 11, 2013 agedhorse wrote: This is the type of venue that I would look at one of the longer column based line arrays. I have used this and in music mode is an ideal mustical theatre solution. The long array is essential to good horizontal broadband pattern control. They come with wall brackets which put it right up to a boundery adding ~3dB to the real world sensitivity. Add a little DSP and a couple of compact subs (Eons or better the PRX-715 and it's very user friendly. Great for a light duty band (pit band), acoustic acts, light rock, jazz, and especially headsets and lavs running around. http://www.jblpro.com/catalog/general/Product.aspx?PId=447&MId=2 Andy I looked it up and that indeed looks promising. I assume it's a passive system, I didn't see anywhere that it stated otherwise. What would be an appropriate level of amp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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