ES18-BPH

SwenK wrote: I am aware of the HD15/X1 combination for house and the HD meaning hard dance, but th HD15 won't be much cop in pairs under a 12" for bands, whereas a usb/es18 will.

Have you tried them? We regularly run an HD215 or 3 HD's a side with a community SLS920 on top for smaller band work, personally i think they do the job very well, hi-passed at 48Hz.
I suppose it depends on what sort of bands you'll be working with, if you need the extra low end for electronic instruments or bigger productions or such like then you'll benefit from an 18" design. Certainly don't be labelling the HD15's as "not much cop" though..

we've been using a pd185 in 4 of our es18s, coupled together they can perform sub but not as efficient as longer horn mouthed cabs + very short in terms of throw

buff marley, out of intrest what do you cross yours over as we run 4 as bass under some double 10"

mashgwan wrote: buff marley, out of intrest what do you cross yours over as we run 4 as bass under some double 10" but we have recently blew one up, cone ripped but the voice coil was fine   we run them 40hz to 250hz

Normally 31 band eq it from 30 - 250 and let the 12s pick them up from there, as the dude above said, perfect for small to medium sized halls, + band work which we will be keeping these cabs for that purpose.

Why do people build ES-218's? Its just the same to build 2 and couple the horn mouths together minus 18mm difference.


@ others what you got in your es18s and what do you x-them over at?

Regards
Buff

severly!

cheers stu

Yeah i know exactly what you mean, the thing is that there is two of them being run in 4 ohm bridged off a peavey 26!  then the same again for the other 2...