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My sister has on my recommendation just purchased a rather fetching dark blue Minirig and I thought I would bring this post up from 2010 and say congratulations to Mr T for his sterling endeavour. From acorns..
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DMZ. "The bass was intense. Girls were literally running up to stand next to the subs"
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algy
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I’m getting married this year, and was wondering about how plausible it would be to use a Minirig based setup for the reception (venue is 100-150 people capacity, long oblong room, not too bothered if people at the far end have it quiet as long as it’s pretty effective for the first 30m or so. Currently have a 2.1 setup but quite happy to go up to something like a 4.2, for example. I use them loads both at home and for (much smaller, admittedly) other parties, so not bothered about overspending on them as it were.
If it’s relevant, music will be mostly the kind of guff you get at wedding receptions - Bon jovi or whatever. Later, and at other parties, it’s more likely to be Jeff Mills/Dave Clarke/Surgeon type techno. Edited by algy - 12 January 2022 at 6:22pm |
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toastyghost
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As great as the Minirig is, not a chance. A 2.1 setup can hit about 103 dB linear SPL peak at 1 metre.
Doubling that would get you an extra 6 dB, in a theoretically perfect world. Since we don't live in one of those, the distance offsets and spacing would bring that down a fair bit. Either way, that's only just over 90 dB average, right next to the speakers. At 30 metres, you're looking at 60 dB, which is already going to get lost in the typical background noise levels for a normal conversation, let alone a party. That's also without considering the people walking in front of the speakers, absorbing sound. You'd normally put your mains (constant directivity horn assumed) up high and angle them down to aim at the farthest listener, so that inverse distance law evens out the level front to back. To do that, you need directivity and headroom, since you're moving the source farther away from everyone, and unfortunately you don't have it in that setup. For what it's worth, I hung up several 'line arrays' of Minirigs at Outlook Festival a few years back, for people in the ticket exchange queue to listen to. It worked quite well, but each of them had 6 Minirigs (v1) connected, and there were 4 or 5 'hangs' from memory. Cool marketing concept, but even a single compression driver on a horn and a 12" woofer per side would give more consistent SPL and tonal response from front to back. Where are you based? If it’s in the UK, you could always look to book the Doppler Soundsystem, which is by the Minirig guys and still battery powered. Edited by toastyghost - 12 January 2022 at 7:06pm |
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djgorey
Young Croc Joined: 29 December 2007 Location: S. Wales Status: Offline Points: 1306 |
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Hiya
Just a quick question - is it safe to use my minirigs with them resting on their sides? Will this damage them at all?
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Gaffa tape is like the force in Star Wars - there's a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together
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Ganon
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No problem in letting them play tilted 👍
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