Quad set up

Returning to this post, where I received great help, since posting it I have used quad systems with really great success maybe 8-10 times indoors and out for up to 750 people. Brilliant set up! (no delays, bass one way, opposite zones as suggested, in this thread).

Edited by mattd - 13 April 2025 at 4:56am

in an elongated room, I would add additional fill speakers along the lengths, aimed across from each other, and using both delay and gain shading until you can't hear a difference as you walk the floor. The fills (arrays or not) should have wide (more than 90 degrees horizontal) coverage if just using one pair, less if using multiple pairs, depending on extent of room elongation.

I tend to run 4 identical setups, subs time delayed, LR switched on rears, and tops phase inverted.

OK this is interesting, certainly different to what I have been using. Ill have a play about pre gig one day and see. I use 4x identical stacks with no phase flip, and I run the back stacks at 80hz up only. But I typically do an area 15x15m. It seems to work OK with bass both ways, but i run it one way, and  just add a little on the stage end and seems fine. Maybe your method is better for large setups?

Edited by mattd - 21 April 2025 at 1:48am

Racks&Stacks wrote: I've not heard a switched stereo setup sound good. Too much of the middle sounds like a mess to me, offseting any improvement of allowing a stereo field any direction dancers face.

You're not the average member of the audience though  Sometimes you need to take off the anorak and listen with the ear of a pisht punter!

9/10 they *like* the aural assault you get stood in the exact middle because "it feels mega!" or some other colloquial phrase.

The middle is also a very small % of the dance floor, the most off-their-trolley members of the audience are likely to be in that space anyway.

At the end of the day, X-Quad is usually used when containment is a greater priority than sound quality. As far as the common compromises that are available for dealing with that, it's often the easiest and provides the most effective results.

Edited by RoadRunnersDust - 24 April 2025 at 10:18am