Age old question, first time rig build.

Hi. Here's what I'd advise, as a roadmap to putting your rig together.

1. get 2 x full range, passive speakers. Not much point self building, as passive crossovers are a bitch. Something with a decent compression driver, and one cone, 15" or 12".
Ply, not chipboard.
'vintage' branded speakers can be really high quality, with nice components, and a decent passive crossover, and can be relatively cheap. Think JBL, Martin, Peavey, EV, etc.

'Baby bums', for example.
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or something like this:
 

Reasons? The designers in most of the older 'brands' were really good at passive crossover design, & drivers, imo.
Also, they're cheap as chips to buy now, and built before the accountants moved in, & insisted on everything being built in China out of shite.

2. build 2 x bass reflex speakers. Gsubs? or design your own. You can choose your dimensions to suit the tops, & people here will work out the port dimensions for you. 2 cones each, 15's or 18's.
Don't think that 15's are sub standard. All mine are 15's, & I do 1000 person dance tents easy enough.
They're also much easier to do smaller gigs, go up stairs, & load into the van.
cones? Cheap & remarkably good - JBL 2226
expensive - 18sound, Ciare, Faital.
go for neo, if poss, & copper coils.

3. 2 amps & a crossover, and you're up & running.
Try & get a bass amp that's happy at 2Ω, if poss.

4. add 2 more identical bass speakers, because reflex works best when they're all the same. ;)

5. 2 more amps, and buy or build some tops, with 2 x 10's / 12's and a decent compression driver on a horn. Now you can go 3 way, and use your previous tops as DJ monitors. ;)

6. 1 more bass amp, same as the other bass amp, and 2 or 4 more bass speakers, again, the same as the others, and you'll have all sorts of stacking possibilities, for all those different roof heights.

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Then, if you still want to add to it, some sort of silly-subs to go under the stack, or run separately in the centre.



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Good luck.

MIniture girl....

Cheers Jody sound advice :) i certainly know your system holds up to a 1000 ;) you arent doing noetic flux next week for shippy amd onney are you? I think shippy is running his opus.id just pay you for a rig if i could afford haha always wanted to run an opus rig.