Get your Racks out....
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Topic: Get your Racks out....
Posted By: Bryan M
Subject: Get your Racks out....
Date Posted: 18 November 2005 at 9:59pm
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Post pictures here.... |
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Posted By: Bryan M
Date Posted: 18 November 2005 at 10:02pm
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Posted By: Bryan M
Date Posted: 18 November 2005 at 10:04pm
| 2x solar powered torches! Take that global warming |
Posted By: Mircea Bartic
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 3:38am
I'm ashamed...    ------------- general manager & head designer at nexus-acoustics research http://www.facebook.com/nexus.acoustics.research" rel="nofollow - http://www.facebook.com/nexus.acoustics.research Ex Nexus_3 |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 4:46am
.Please dont laugh,it might not be high-tech,but it works.... ......and yes,i forget to take the plastic covers off for the photos.------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: mans1000
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 6:04am
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Nice racks JBLman, Studiomaster amps? was looking at buying one,what they like? ------------- "The earth provides enough to satisfy every mans needs...but not every mans greed." |
Posted By: kevinmcdonough
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 6:06am
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Hey Dirtsoundboy Can i just ask while i'me here, how do you find the dbx zone pro? I'm doing a fairly large install over the next few weeks (Using among other things a Void Air Motion system for the large bar in the building, the FIRST one ever i think  ) and am looking at using the large one, cant remember its code, to route it all.Its a fairly rush choice as the zone mixer i was planning to use has suddenly become unavailable and i haven't had time to get a hold of a dbx and try it myself first so am just wanting to double check its all cool. kev |
Posted By: kevinmcdonough
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 6:11am
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Oh, my bad!  See its a dbx drive rack PA you have, not a zone pro. Thats what i get for trying to focus on the comp monitor straight out of bed! kev |
Posted By: mans1000
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 6:30am
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All I have left after selling amps/rack/EQ to fund a studio project http://img512.imageshack.us/my.php?image=00005105fj.jpg"> |
http://img512.imageshack.us/my.php?image=00005105fj.jpg - Posted By: Bryan M
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 6:53am
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Is it just me or am i the only person who cant get enough flashing lights in the rack, everyone elses racks are functional and to the point but mine are just slowly filling up with 1u vu meters ands stuff! you turn em on and it looks like blackpool pleasure beach arcade!!!! Gotta say i love racks jbl_man, they look like they can move some Air! @kevinmcdonough: How come your not using void processing(sorry about the bold text) and are you using there amps? Are you doing the install up in scotland? Bry |
Posted By: kevinmcdonough
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 7:58am
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started up a thread for the install that i can put some pics on over
the next few weeks so have a look there and i'll explain about the
processing. kev |
Posted By: Dixi
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 8:02am
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My little racks =)
------------- "But where is the speaker? thats just a box with a hole in it!" |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 8:05am
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Hi guys,yes,thanks,the photos were taken on the hurry up one day,as u can see still got some of the amps wrapped in plastic,and have lots more of those as well, most i have fully restored(the BGW 750 is from 1976!) and are now all in mint condition.is 6 Citronics ppx900.3 studiomaster(the original RSD ones),2 peaveys from the 1980`s and the classic HH v800. Manns 1000.my studiomasters are the original 1978 ones,built like a sherman tank,and a lovely punchy sound.they are great amps,but obviously with anything that age,trying to find "mint" non-abused items is very hard now..when i get a moment i will try and take some better photos of the whole lot.
------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: ashnono
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 10:06am
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[QUOTE=DIRTSOUNDBOY]Is it just me or am i the only person who cant
get enough flashing lights in the rack, everyone elses racks are functional and to the point but mine are just slowly filling up with 1u vu meters ands stuff! you turn em on and it looks like blackpool pleasure beach arcade!!!![/ QUOTE] ha ha, i thought i was in maplin or in a spazzed up vauxhall corsa. when i turned my new matrix amp on. The fan tunnels lit up bright ice blue. pics on way. |
Posted By: Phil B
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 10:18am
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Some from work the other week.........
This is the control rack for a Res5 rig..the amps were all behind the stacks and Lemo`s were run to them from here. 
This was running a dance stack...FFA`s and Infrabass...Oh Boy! http://imageshack.us"> 
A recent install... Top section running a full Noise Control Rig. The lower rack running the stage Monitors http://imageshack.us"> 
http://imageshack.us"> 
and our " cobble together" at a recent party Left rack is Acme sounds, The centre rack is running the "old" Dekked rig (  )and yes that`s a VZ5 in there which will NEVER happen again.... and you can just make out the FFa and 360 on the right which was running all On-Tik`s loonie bins ..shame we didn`t have enough power to get it heaving.
.p. ------------- Mostly harmless.... except if catering is shut. Solar Sound System Shennanigans.. http://diyhifi.biz/" rel="nofollow - http://diyhifi.biz/ |
Posted By: Rengade Project
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 10:52am
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You all in Europe sure have many different Amplifier companys to chose from...it is truly amazing!!!! ------------- MUSIC SWEET,www.myspace.com/renegadeproject |
Posted By: djstefanos
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 10:57pm
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true |
Rengade Project wrote:
Posted By: gingerbiscuit69
Date Posted: 20 November 2005 at 12:13pm
well, heres my small and pathetic rig, the finest in chinese imports, and a bit of knackered english junk!
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Posted By: Rengade Project
Date Posted: 20 November 2005 at 2:46pm
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Those purple amplifiers the FFa I believe what are the power ratings on them Mnsr phildekked ------------- MUSIC SWEET,www.myspace.com/renegadeproject |
Posted By: *MMD
Date Posted: 20 November 2005 at 4:28pm
| Take a look here: http://www.noisecontrolaudio.com/ - http://www.noisecontrolaudio.com/ |
Posted By: Phil B
Date Posted: 20 November 2005 at 5:10pm
It`s changed from the specs on there..... They do 3k a side at 2 ohms ...( the old ones did that anyway but were badged 5000 when really they were 6 k !- all down a dodgy house supply when they were first being developed!!) Gonna get the new specs this week .... .p. ------------- Mostly harmless.... except if catering is shut. Solar Sound System Shennanigans.. http://diyhifi.biz/" rel="nofollow - http://diyhifi.biz/ |
Posted By: Insomnia
Date Posted: 20 November 2005 at 7:12pm
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i am currently running 2 identical racks-as pictured
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Posted By: Dom
Date Posted: 20 November 2005 at 7:21pm
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I'm just finishing building some new rack cases. Will take a picture once I get one loaded and wired up... ------------- "It sounded like a million fire engines chasing ten million ambulances through a war zone and it was played at a volume that made the empty chair beside me bleed." |
Posted By: tom_noise
Date Posted: 21 November 2005 at 5:20am
so i'll show also my little URPS rack. |
Posted By: james folkes
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 11:29am
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i've just realised my phone will talk to my computer now i'm running tiger. a host of rig pics will no doubt ensue. here is my rack at a friend's wedding, minus monitor amp. when i bought the case of phil it was full depth for servers or similar so i felt obliged to shorten it by 9". pictures of the back will only be deemed suitable for public viewing when i have bought some more solder and wired the patchbay! james http://imageshack.us">  ------------- mardy hippy. |
Posted By: Mircea Bartic
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 11:34am
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James, are you runging those DCX's "bridged" for more than 3 Way stereo? ------------- general manager & head designer at nexus-acoustics research http://www.facebook.com/nexus.acoustics.research" rel="nofollow - http://www.facebook.com/nexus.acoustics.research Ex Nexus_3 |
Posted By: james folkes
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 11:46am
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the top one is left, the bottom one is right. both run in 5 way + monitor/ full range fill with eq. they power variations on a theme of the following stacks, this was for a party in a railway arch last night, we had to be very careful not to end up getting painfully loud. second picture is the mid-high pack at the other end of the room. the system sounded nails. james. http://imageshack.us">  http://imageshack.us">  ------------- mardy hippy. |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 1:06pm
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Nice rack James.....also love the venue,has a hint of "Santa`s groto" about it! also I-spy Martin 215s,but cant make out what the box is they are sitting on? a kinda folded horn? ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: james folkes
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 3:12pm
doesn't it though? pity i took these pictures after most of the decorations had been taken down, fat moon always go the extra distance when it comes to putting a party on and the place was a proper little magic kingdom.
that my friend is the subwoofer that all of you want, just none of you have realised yet. loaded with a pair of beyma lx60 12"s they can happily absorb vast amounts of power and turn it into stupidly nice bass. we'll take the pepsi challenge with any of those x1 owning types, especially the ones who complained their 6th order boxes were too wallowy... we're also fiddling the box design to the same footprint as the martin 215 mkIII so the stack is a little more symetrical, you'll have to hear these at some point ian, certainly the way one compliments a pair of mkIs is staggering. at an outdoor event this summer someone described the kick drum as sounding like a one tonne weight being dropped onto the ground next to them. get in. james. ------------- mardy hippy. |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 4:40pm
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That bottom box looks kinda a "mini "mk3 James,does it have the same sort of internal layout as a mk3? Love the midrange horns by-the-way,they look nice and mean! ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: Mircea Bartic
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 4:55pm
 link to this subwoofer http://66.39.19.127/archives/000086.html#more - here ------------- general manager & head designer at nexus-acoustics research http://www.facebook.com/nexus.acoustics.research" rel="nofollow - http://www.facebook.com/nexus.acoustics.research Ex Nexus_3 |
Posted By: james folkes
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 5:37pm
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very close nexus but not quite. that is a wo32 which is a more conventional
horn cab. the standard wo is a 4th order bp horn hybrid and we believe more suitable for adapting to pa use. the layout is remarkably similar to the mkIII martin though, you're dead right about that ian. rich has been harping on about these things for donkeys, i was never impressed with his first 10" one, or indeed some of the car driver loaded 12" ones, then he started building them with beyma lx60s in. really i do realise that they need actual measurements to be taken more seriously, but on a scale of one to phat, they are proper porkers. james. ------------- mardy hippy. |
Posted By: PoteirosCorp
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 7:47pm
Come on james, show the plans 
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Posted By: roborg
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 2:20am
Hey how can i model velocity discs in hornresp  ------------- What I cannot create, I do not understand |
Posted By: matt andrews
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 4:16am
My box of toys
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Posted By: james folkes
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 4:43am
you can't. they work by magic. just as you cannot model for the small lumps of orgonite which were on top of the speaker stacks at that party, yet i am sure they were doing something... the wo does not have velocity discs as standard, the 32 is a bit of an ht speaker really, there is a lot of finicky audiophile bits and mods that rich hasn't bothered with. linking to the plans wouldn't help as the original is a 10" cab. there is more than one way of scaling to fit a pair of 12" woofers in but we aren't yet sure which is the best way. the designer's site has a large forum frequented by many people who have tried lots of variations on a theme of these cabs, scaling up or down to suit their needs with varying success. there is some chap who has a vast pile of 12" pa wos which he reckons will favourably take on a mate's lab horns... find the forum, do some reading, see if it will be useful to you. james. ------------- mardy hippy. |
Posted By: Noyzmunky
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 2:00pm
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party in wales this yr. collection on crown, PV, QSC,samson,millbank and berry signaling. driving a hell beast.
little wet hire rental stack. chamelion 3700 bass 4R driving 4x fane 18xb, PV 2600 and soundtech digi running jbl mseries 302mk11 and ramsa full range.
another coupla flight cases before i can really take out all the amps. ------------- my name is Inigo Montoya...you killed my father, prepare to die!. |
Posted By: james folkes
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 4:49pm
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nice avc matieo, i would really like one of them. i would then be able to
abandon my plans for a mechanical mallet's mallet style automated dj bopping system, although if it could hit them in time with the bass beat then that would be cool... james. edit: anyone played count the ultradrives?... i see you too are being precious and haven't yet peeled off the protective film on the lcd display matieo! we had four, but one went foom along with a peavey 1.3k that now thinks it's turned on when the switch is off (spooky!), a bk mxf1000 module (for which the signal cable going into it was burning hot and sparked in a spectacular manner upon removal) and a 15" driver in a wharfedale pro trapezoidal cab. the repeater system in the adjacent arch for the party on friday night shown on the previous page died a horrible death just before the doors opened. water and amplifiers mixing was possibly involved, i do not recommend this to anyone here. by the way i know that i spelt off wrong on the last page when i said that i bought them of phil but as i have to go into firefox to edit it owing to the length of the linked image files' urls, i can't be bothered. sorry. ------------- mardy hippy. |
Posted By: Slim
Date Posted: 19 December 2005 at 7:54am
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Void digidrive+ Two europowers one mid one top Void network4 for the bass.
That runs this little baby with ease!!
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Posted By: matt andrews
Date Posted: 20 December 2005 at 3:41am
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Blatantly copied getting an AVC2 from Dom & Norty, its utterly genius and combined with a locked and limited behringer ultradrive and full open amps i can almost bring myself to dry hire my rig.
Setup is now fantastically easy since sorting that box, panel & distro; I almost look like I know what im doing |
Posted By: norty303
Date Posted: 20 December 2005 at 9:45pm
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Was gonna comment about the AVC2 but it seems everyones done it. Glad you're happy with it, has made my life much easier i must say. Very neat rack BTW matieo, wish i could get all mine in a single rack but i'm so often lugging on my own. really must get around photoing my lot.... Prob when i get my garage in the new year - which now has to also house my xmas present to myself - a Honda Fireblade!!! ------------- My laser stuff: http://www.facebook.com/SubsonicSystems" rel="nofollow - Frikkin Lasers |
Posted By: Noyzmunky
Date Posted: 21 December 2005 at 5:35am
duff man says oooh yeah... now the fight for hobby superiority begins. it'll be like toy story when yr not in the room. all yr battered Db blasters ganging up on the new shiny kid on the block. him showing off with his engine peak of 142Db and any 'w' bins hanging around wishing they sounded as sweet. please tell me its in the lime green and white fairing, just to finish the imagery. j ------------- my name is Inigo Montoya...you killed my father, prepare to die!. |
Posted By: norty303
Date Posted: 21 December 2005 at 8:38am
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Sorry, can't help ya there! Metallic blue and gold it is, 1999 model, garaged for 5 1/2 yrs and only 84 miles on the clock!! Those new tops are gonna have to wait!
------------- My laser stuff: http://www.facebook.com/SubsonicSystems" rel="nofollow - Frikkin Lasers |
Posted By: mans1000
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 10:37am
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Finally got me new amps! Not the best of the best but just enough for my needs.Still trying to get hold of a rack tho. http://img489.imageshack.us/my.php?image=set6us.jpg"> top to bottom- Reverb(JHS), mic mixer(JB Systems), EQ(Dynacord), x-over(Berry), tops (C-Audio ST400), mid (C-Audio ST600) & bass (Audiohead AH2400). All running 8ohm at the mo,just need to sort out the drivers on two of the bins then the scoops will be running 1200wpc @ 4ohm.Powering this lot... http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=scoops1jn.jpg"> Mixture of drivers- Bass - 3 x Eminence,1 Celestion(Will to change them all to Fane XB's eventually) Mids - 2 x Eminence Tops - 4 x RCF comps(only 2 in pic) Also looking to get some decent bullets to carry on from the comps. Just need to get it all in a big space to hear it properly. ------------- "The earth provides enough to satisfy every mans needs...but not every mans greed." |
Posted By: Tom Umney
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 10:56am
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So you gonna run two scoops per channel of that 1200w rms per channel into 4 ohm Audiohead amp? So they should get 600w rms each driver then. Oh and the piezos have dissappeared from your stack. Now the reggae pre-amp and reggae siren are the only bits missing there if you wanted to make it a reggae soundsystem! As for a rack, I seen cheap as chips 11U flightcase on http://www.soundrental.co.uk/ - http://www.soundrental.co.uk/ under the for sale section. It's green old style and is only £35, but 34.5cm deep though. Also as you want Fane 18XB's in the future, someone on sj is selling 2 Fane Colossus 18B's[ which also work well in scoops] for £150 for both. http://www.squatjuice.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=16216 - http://www.squatjuice.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=16216 |
Posted By: mans1000
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 11:15am
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Aahh......Soundrental,sent them an email regarding that rack bout 2 months ago.Got no reply,cheers Toxic u just reminded me,must actually ring them to see whats its like.Also very handy as they r only 2 mins up the road from me.And yep,600 w per driver.Also gonna go for the XB's,the specs better than the B's.Mind you,I have'nt had a look at the Void 600 specs yet.Wonder what they sound like in scoops?or r they better for BR cabs? gonna take a look now.Mind u,bit skint now(after xmas,buying the amps).Gonna make do for the time being.Got a feeling one of the drivers is on its way out too,can't take as much power as the other one,starts poppin' when turned up loud,a lot of flapping compared to the other one also. ------------- "The earth provides enough to satisfy every mans needs...but not every mans greed." |
Posted By: mans1000
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 11:18am
was on the back of one of them a few months ago,got upto 110-115mph.Boy!Didi I sh*t myself or what!! ------------- "The earth provides enough to satisfy every mans needs...but not every mans greed." |
Posted By: Tom Umney
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 11:21am
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Also there are other cheap options like B&C 18 PS76 for £134 inc vat from PAP or PD918 from Komotion LTD for £129 inc vat. http://www.komotion.ltd.uk/content/sales.htm - http://www.komotion.ltd.uk/content/sales.htm |
Posted By: mans1000
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 11:24am
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Cheers Toxic,will have to compare the specs of drivers available,best for scoops,best for budget.Ideally would like to stick around the 600w mark. ------------- "The earth provides enough to satisfy every mans needs...but not every mans greed." |
Posted By: Tom Umney
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 12:44pm
| B&C 18 PS76 is 700w rms,PD918 is 600w rms. |
Posted By: Tom Umney
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 12:48pm
| I'll also be interested in buying 2 of the Eminence Omega Pro 18's when/if you upgrade them mans1000. |
Posted By: CS HiFi
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 6:00pm
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First post! Been lurking here for about a year. eq rack:  amp rack:  rep'n from Honolulu. |
Posted By: gingerbiscuit69
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 6:06pm
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whats that bottom amp powerage? Looks beefy! What speakers array are you using too? cheers, wish i had one
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Posted By: CS HiFi
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 6:10pm
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QSC 1700: 325 p/c @ 8ohm, 500 p/c @ 4ohm. 1k bridged @ 8ohm (too
unstable @ 4ohm bridged). Looks beefy only because it's 4 rack spaces
but only half the depth! POS, but still chuggin' along. My first amp I ever bought, strictly for monitor use only and the occasional single 8 ohm sub. Right now we're running the newer peavey sp1x (15"/4", 2" exit), biamped (550/200 watts each), and two large single 18" reflex (900 watts each). Monitors are 12"/peizo horn, pair @ 325 watts each. All 8ohm ratings. Loud, clear and warm sounding in a small to medium sized pub. |
Posted By: gingerbiscuit69
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 6:12pm
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well that was dissapointing! i was expecting some huge Class A spec or something! lol. Never mind, ill just have your racks thanks,
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Posted By: Rengade Project
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 6:35pm
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CS Hifi you have many EQs are they all in use or just many spares? ------------- MUSIC SWEET,www.myspace.com/renegadeproject |
Posted By: Andrew
Date Posted: 29 December 2005 at 3:38am
| Probably for monitors. |
Posted By: CS HiFi
Date Posted: 29 December 2005 at 1:23pm
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Yeah, the dbx 1231's are for individual monitor mixes (4) for live
bands. We work almost exclusively with reggae, mostly local bands a few
touring bands here and there. This year we hooked up with John
Brown's Body (NY) with their dub engineer, Jocko, and Dub Sesemania
(Japan). Right now my drive is usually that Berry x-over, the rane stereo 31-band eq, and the berry comp/limiter. The parametric is usally put in line before the sub amp to clean up muddy room response. Waiting for either the peavey driverack (3 in's, 6 out's?) or dbx driverack 260...but the funds aren't quite nearly there. |
Posted By: Tom Umney
Date Posted: 29 December 2005 at 1:50pm
| You gonna put some pics your speakers up too? I'd love to see how the large 18 inch reflex look and the newer Peavey look. |
Posted By: super-hero
Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 10:23am
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The Crest amps have now been replaced with more QSC's to save some weight. And the amps have been split into 2 flightcases, which is a bit more practical. Signal processing is done by a Behringer ultradrive if I am running 3way or a BSS 388 omnidrive for 4way stereo. The speakers are Court Acoustics twin 18's, twin 15's and the black box mid high packs. |
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Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 10:29am
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Slightly bigger picture of the amps.
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Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 10:43am
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"The Crest amps have now been replaced with more QSC's to save some weight" Yes,but i bet its still a back-breaker! quite a few watts there Super-hero,can we see a photo of the speakers as well? ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: super-hero
Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 10:51am
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Well if I must.
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Posted By: COWFOOT
Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 11:01am
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Mama Mia !!! Reggae and dub must sound wicked on this set. |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 11:59am
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And u were worried about the weight of the crest amps? Are they "pukka" Court boxes? they do look like the real article from the photos.very impressive,and in excellent condition as well. Are those old Altec or Vitavox cast alloy horns i can spy in the long flat boxes on top? ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: super-hero
Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 12:39pm
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Well spotted, They are indeed the Altec 511b horns. I was after another pair but they are hard to find and quite expensive. They are all original Court boxes that I have refurbished over the last year or so. I also have some Court TR750's which I have rebuilt recently. I have now run out of storage space, so I must stop buying stuff for a while. |
Posted By: Andrew
Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 1:37pm
| Don't lift that amp rack: there are only bolts in the lowest unit. Still, good for illustrative purposes. |
Posted By: Andrew
Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 1:42pm
| And of course, lifting the amps one at a time is much better for the back also! |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 2:04pm
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Thats a nice system Super Hero,those Genuine Court boxes are very well built,lots were originally used by some of the biggest UK hire companys in the 1980s and 90s.Brittannia Row had a huge bank of them.Unfortuantly there are a lot of sub standard nasty copies as well,so the genuine ones are allways nice to see. I think the original driver line up for these was 2x E140 or 2225 bass,2206 mids,2441 or 2426 Hf (depending on build spec.)and 2x 2402 for Vhf...there were also hugely expensive new...almost on par with Martin Audio on price. ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: super-hero
Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 2:30pm
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The subs and bass cabs are the newer Court boxes from their Ramjet range. All loaded with original drivers. The mid highs are Jbl loaded, but dont have the 2402's. Insteed they have a 2" 2445 in each box as well as a 1" 2426 and 2x 12" 2206's. So the mid highs may not be completely original ? I am looking to build half size versions of the mid highs, as when the system is stacked as it was designed to be stacked, the full size ones are too heavy...
The system above was used at the local working mans club. Haven't been asked back since....funny that. |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 5:00pm
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yes,dont worry,your mid hi`s are completely original,there was the option of the 1" 2426 for vhf,above 6.5khz or the pair of 2402`s bullets instead.the ones u have were the prefered choice for outdoor long throw. I do know what u mean by the weight,tho,they must be the biggest heaviest Mid hi boxes around! The 2 x15 bass cabs also had the option of a single 18" 2241 in place of the 2 15" in the same size cabinet,but the 2 15" box allways sounded better. ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: KWB1
Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 5:57pm
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I remember having to set up a court black box system a few years back. Set up - Excitement, this big stack should sound beefy. Pack up - Soul destroying, thousands of pounds of ply and no handles!
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Posted By: COWFOOT
Date Posted: 30 December 2005 at 6:21pm
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KWB1 I feel your pain. As Bill clinton would say. |
Posted By: OpusPaul
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 4:35pm
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My babies purring away
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Posted By: gingerbiscuit69
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 4:36pm
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what are they? they look like servers! lol
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Posted By: OpusPaul
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 4:50pm
| LOL. Opus HD amps, with XS134 system controllers and RP100 patch bays. (And a dbx driverack pa, in the right hand rack). There are 4 HD2500 modules (bass), 2 HD1250 modules (mid) and 2 HD500's for top end, mounted in shockproof touring racks. I'd say nearly 150kg per rack, but thats not as bad as my old Crest/Crown racks were! |
Posted By: gingerbiscuit69
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 4:53pm
Sounds Phat!! My ampracks a bit of a Chinese joke tbh! Altho its nearly 120Kg, with about 1/2 the output of one of yours. Fancy a swap?
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Posted By: Tom Umney
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 5:27pm
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You should get one of these to put those amps in instead of that awful thrown together rack. http://www.imuso.co.uk/ProductDetail.asp?StockCode=PA00158 - http://www.imuso.co.uk/ProductDetail.asp?StockCode=PA00158 Only £50 brand new and its made of 9mm plywood and 50cm deep and 10U. Or the 16U version for £70. http://www.imuso.co.uk/ProductDetail.asp?StockCode=PA00159 - http://www.imuso.co.uk/ProductDetail.asp?StockCode=PA00159 |
Posted By: Jay Lawless
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 5:44pm
damn thats cheap! for a 10U here, basicly exactly the same thing as that there is about $350-$400! atleast in my State. ------------- Previously known as NeverWinter Background: Automotive, Live and Home Custom Design. mid/high level based design and feild experience. Bass specialist |
Posted By: Tom Umney
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 6:05pm
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Yeah and their 50m roll of gaffa tape is only £2.50. Normally its around £5-£6 alsewhere.
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Posted By: Rengade Project
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 8:34pm
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OpusPaul those amps look serious what are the specs on them.I am always jealous of the array of amplifiers available to you in the UK. ------------- MUSIC SWEET,www.myspace.com/renegadeproject |
Posted By: james folkes
Date Posted: 17 March 2006 at 3:58am
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@paul, i hope you've got some at2000s and hb121s on the other end of that
pile... james. ------------- mardy hippy. |
Posted By: gingerbiscuit69
Date Posted: 17 March 2006 at 5:57am
yeah, but id rather spend £70 on something that makes more noise, rather than cosmetic crap. The rack goes behind the speakers anyway. And really, at a gig, who goes looking at racks anyway!?!? Its good enough for me! |
Posted By: UNKNOWN dan
Date Posted: 17 March 2006 at 6:26am
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I'll get a pic of ours up on monday but until then heres a pic of what it powers
And heres a pic of our other rig
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Posted By: norty303
Date Posted: 17 March 2006 at 7:10am
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Finally managedto get some pics of my rig and rack last weekend and now can't find the frikkin cable to get them off it onto the computer!! And it's pre-standard digicam cable (IXUS2.1) and my laptop only has SD card slot, not Compact flash, blah, blah... ------------- My laser stuff: http://www.facebook.com/SubsonicSystems" rel="nofollow - Frikkin Lasers |
Posted By: OpusPaul
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 3:59pm
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Well the two racks in the photo are only for dj booth monitoring. Only joking haha! But I wish! A few more years before the system gets that big! I am running 8 SB218's for bass (2x18) and 4 CS750 mid-tops, plus my own Opus replica cabs on an assortment of other amps. I was going to get 4 HB121's but we had them in the second room at a regular gig we do and they really didn't appeal, so decided to stick with what we had. Maybe just the particular set up used on that night wasnt right for the venue. For the gigs and venues we do, its SB218's all the way. I will inevitably end up with AT2000's, but at the moment we haven't had a venue that this rig doesn't kick ass in. The largest venue we've used it in is Colchester Leisure World (Charter Hall). Not sure how many thousand capacity it is but its bloody big! We only used 10 out of 20 cabs, and they were totally blown away. Would have loved to use more but theres a limit to how much you can squeeze into a LWB transit before the wheels fall off LOL. |
Posted By: Tom Umney
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 5:14pm
Cosmetic crap,lol no it protects your gear during transport. Unless you want your gear to be all beat up after a few gigs/events. And then you will have to spend more money to replace it, when it gets bashed to death. Cheapest thing you could use would be this but it has no lids. http://www.imuso.co.uk/ProductDetail.asp?StockCode=PA00163 - http://www.imuso.co.uk/ProductDetail.asp?StockCode=PA00163 £25 and its 10U flightcase and made of 9mm plywood, 50 cm depth, but you would need some foam strapped in place [with velcro maybe] to protect the ends where are no lids.
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Posted By: Bryan M
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 5:43pm
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can you guess what it is yet....? Bryan |
Posted By: Bryan M
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 5:48pm
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Band stuff ps im bored so im just posting pics up Bryan |
Posted By: Mircea Bartic
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 6:14pm
hmm , let mee see....maybe Infinites?  ------------- general manager & head designer at nexus-acoustics research http://www.facebook.com/nexus.acoustics.research" rel="nofollow - http://www.facebook.com/nexus.acoustics.research Ex Nexus_3 |
Posted By: UNKNOWN dan
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 6:23am
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Heres a couple of pics of our rack
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Posted By: mykey
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 6:33am
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UNKNOWN dan could you put those amp's from 1-5 in order of best quality, best being 1.? thanks ------------- ......just all them hanging there like giant bananas. |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 8:31am
Yep,that sure is an unusual way to stack amps,on edge like that Dan! ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: UNKNOWN dan
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 9:24am
1. Crown MA5000 VZ 2. Opus KA 4000 3. QSC PLX 3402 4. PSL MAX 502 5. C-MARK MR 2650 I rekon its hard to decide between the OPUS and the QSC tho. ------------- UNKNOWN Soundsystem |
Posted By: james folkes
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 10:00am
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i'm interested that the crown macrotech comes out on top... sure thing, it's a
proper bruiser that is very difficult to break, but don't you find it a bit growly and distrorted down low? certainly i was interested to note that after a-b comparrison of a 5000vz and a pl4.0 powering ass folded hornsubs, avid av vowed never to book out a crown again. the ma sounded louder, but the powerlight was smooth and pure, giving a much better quality of sound and seemingly dropping lower. james. ------------- mardy hippy. |
Posted By: phreak
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 10:08am
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opus, hmm. that is identical to my millbank ap3200. how old is it dan? the millbank was made early 80's. side by side, only the writting would be different.... |
Posted By: Phil B
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 1:44pm
AS the man said.......we`ve run `em against powerlights and ffa`s ...they`re ok at 8 ohms but well beaten by the others at 4 and 2 ohms. .p. ------------- Mostly harmless.... except if catering is shut. Solar Sound System Shennanigans.. http://diyhifi.biz/" rel="nofollow - http://diyhifi.biz/ |
Posted By: davey t
Date Posted: 27 March 2006 at 4:36pm
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This is exactly the reason why we sold our 5k crown and got plx's. Bass is much more defined and cleaner. Not to mention the weight saving. Used a dmx for the first time last week. Not too bad actually. Bit fiddley and had a certain lack of options.
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Posted By: mykey
Date Posted: 28 March 2006 at 12:18am
so if you are unsure about the OPUS and the QSC PLX, the QSC PL would be a far better amp than the OPUS? is that an old model OPUS? only i remember them being "beige" and star-treky looking. Do you have the c-mark running top's? only surely that should be the best quality. sorry for all the question's cheer's ------------- ......just all them hanging there like giant bananas. |
Posted By: boab
Date Posted: 28 March 2006 at 6:35am
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Who's got a tidy rear end then?
Any pics of distros/ cabling too? boab |