Martin WSX - my thoughts

rubbish

Never liked these, but particularly last night. There were 6 running off two MA 2.8s last night at a dubstep night I was helping engineer for last night, 3 a side. Run with the default settings in the club they honked and kick a lot but had no sub, softness or warmth to them. I had to cut a lot of upper bass on the eq (and bring the tops down too sh*t loads) to get them to sound half decent. Even then the crossover would limit before we could acheive which I would consider adequate bass for dubstep. You could stand infront of the stack, tell that they were on but just no real air moving. It wasn't a big room, only about 50 people in it! Davey T was not very impressed. Its a shame because the Martin Wavefront tops sound pretty good.

Its the same every time I hear them, for they're size I expect a lot more, I mean a lab sub isn't that much bigger but is a hell of a lot louder! Maybe they were just not getting enough power, but it seems like they're average at best. Whole load of front loaded 18's would have probably done a better job.

Rant over

I'm in search of a plot to back up my thoughts - anyone know where one is?



Edited by davey t - 11 March 2009 at 9:17pm

I heard many times that WSX are the worst horn cab for indoor use. If there was small area in the club, so it is true. For outdoor it is the best. May be.

The lab gruppen based amp isn't going to help the situation either, wouldn't put one anywhere near a long horn 18 let alone with 3 a side hung off it

mmmm, easy one here, Heard 4 per side (LR) stacked in Belgium a while back. Very punchy in middle of stage and in front of them. Not much low but the punch from 50ish meters far sounded very satisfying.

levyte357 wrote: SteveAATW wrote: The lab gruppen based amp isn't going to help the situation either, wouldn't put one anywhere near a long horn 18 let alone with 3 a side hung off it Oh no, that's torn it. In 500 person hall (no stage),  have heard 4x V18-1000 loaded WSX, 2x per channel of a CA18, in a single stack, with 4x 2x12+1" passive reflex on top (driven by QSC 4050HD), WSX run from 40-90hz. Was immense. Sub was every where in the venue. Vocal and tops crystal, clean. Even women commented how nice it sounded.

if they were painted 'louis vuitton'  stylee..they would have loved them

i can personally vouch that 6 wsx produce plenty of bass, outside i've not heard anything to touch them. did a festy a few years back with a stack of 4 and the council came over to ask me to "lose a few db from the bottom end" apparently the woompf from the stack was stamping over all the rigs on site. was one of the smallest systems there too.