Skating rink sound system upgrade

Couple of things lol
The horns u have I believe are slightly smaller than a wsx and are also s bins in there folding , pretty sure anyway ,
Technicly although there only in groupsof two ,they should give u solid output to 40 Hz only because there corner loaded .
Hire 4 more , so u have stacks of four , see how that goes , will also bring up the height of the stack ,which leads me onto my next question ,

Are the horns firing into the solid rink wall ? Can't imagine that helping too much with providing an even dispersion throughout the frequency range !

Third point .... When I said get some bass coming out the tops I didn't mean alter the crossover point ( low pass filter) on the bass horns , overlap them .

I would give the tops a 6db low shelf for starters , then move the highpass filter to 50/60 Hz .
Then keep the bass horns as they are except for moving the high pass up to say 40
The difference of changing the high pass from 30hz to 40hz on the bass horns will make a noticeable difference to how much level you can get from them and how they sound !

If your high pass is too low on a bass horn it can really choke the sound

Has anyone suggested turning the bass horns and using the corner as an extension to the horn yet?
That might help with the perceived extension issues too.

I have read through all these pages and have to say this : You can throw in any number/type of cabinets of bass, tops whatever with as much power as humanly possible, as long as cabinets are not time-alligned, things will change from bad to worse and back, but never get any better.
In a venue like that, the only sensible way to go would be hanging everything in a center position. Only subs there can work satisfactory, but better would be to get everything up there against the ceiling, subs in the middle pointing straight down with tops around, pointed around to your audience, every top feeding a slice of this big pie that is your venue. Big chance you won't need any more or other cabs/amps to make this work real good. You'll be amazed what 4 subs and a decent number of small tops can do when positioned right in a particular venue.
Leaving the loudspeaker positions as they are and trying to make it work good by adding processing, speakers, amps, and so on.... will only lead to wasted time/money/effort and headache.
If center cluster hanging is not a possibility for whatever reason, than just let everything be as it is.
My 2 cents

Stereo to mono sum is perfectly fine... don't worry so much about that. But moving the subs away from the rink and into the corners for a few free db is always a good idea.

So as suggested... use all mid-tops at full range, stick the 4x subs you have in all four corners and then raise the high pass on them to 40 and the top low pass to ABOUT 12 ish and let the tops overlap with the subs.

It's a free experiment and the outcome could show you the direction you want to head in.

I got some good news.

The LF switches on the tops were set to FLAT and i lowered the crossover to 70Hz. The sound is much better.

I'm still gonna suggest going with the JBL subs one per corner which may improve things further.

EDIT:

I took more pictures of the rink and will post them when I get home.

Edited by Tube Radio - 01 July 2017 at 6:02am