Live band, upgrade tops to match mth30

Play in a 7 piece ska reggae band. Use mth30 for sub, love it, it's small and pack size and space at venues tight.

Have some old hi compact classic 12s with apt150 as tops. Ok, but harsh at times. 

I'd like to build new, narrow, tops with wide horizontal coverage, any ideas ? Slightly keen on omnitop 8s ( 2 8s with 2 compression drivers, but ports are on sides of cabinet! Isn't that a feedback issue!!? Sorry if its a dumb question...!

Otherwise if you had 400£ to make two narrow cab, with passive crossovers,

( Will try to design these myself to match drivers,,): what would you do? 2 way or three way, some sort of horn or reflex, cheers guys!!

2x10" + 1" is a good format for small live band PA. A quick look on Bluearan indicates you could buy four Beyma 10CMV2 woofers, two Fane CD131 comps and two Fane ELH-004 horns for about £325. Then a sheet of ply is around £50, leaving only £25 in your budget for passive crossovers and hardware.

Alternatively, a 12" + 1" design could work well; you could get 2x Fane Sovereign 12-300, 2x CD131 and 2x ELH-004 for around £290, leaving £110 for the rest - more workable, but I still think you're going to end up spending around £500 on this project.

I do recommend you stick with the large ELH-004 horn or something similar - if you use a typical small 1" horn, you will not be able to cross it over low enough to avoid laser-like beaming from your low-mid driver(s). This messes up the sound for listeners off-axis (no hi-mids for them). The ELH-003 can load down to 1000Hz, meaning a 1.6kHz crossover point is easily within its grasp, and there will be only minor pattern aberration around the crossover point (even sound for everyone!). If you try to cross over low on a small horn, the shouty distortion sound you're trying to get away from, will be the result.

Ok, thinking yes to BMS tweeters, will have to make a new cab as old only just big enough to fit APT150 and 12 inch!!

. Will play with win isd and see what I come up with.. Will post in new thread once I get design together.

 The idea of using a horn type speaker will go on back burner, only really need this if we ever play outdoors I reckon , which might only be once a year, for pubs a regular reflex with good tweeter sounds like a good move. 

Thanks for the advice, much appreciated!

....poor , but for a wedge, right in front of player hopefully will beat our current version with, yup, another APT150 with cheap off the shelf crossover (oop s..)Sax player says ...it sounds mwaahh (!!) To me it's got something real horrid around 3-5khz, but not sure I can  hear much above that these days ...eq helps but a bit crunchy!!

One tip I would give you is if you have EQ on your monitor sends, pulling out a bit of 160 and 200Hz on all mixes will help to stop the build-up of low mids coming off the stage and muddying the FOH sound. Almost every wedge has nearly 360 dispersion at those frequencies, so it can really add up when all the mixes are going at once; and without HF to balance it, can give you intelligibility problems on-stage and off.