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opus jody
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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. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10201416107592617&set=o.165409670181751&type=3&theater 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. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1193382362698&set=a.1153113716007.2021779.1472585533&type=3&theater 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. :p Good luck. |
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Khyber
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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.
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