newb question- mid/top for x1?

*newb alert*

ceharden wrote: if you wanted to go further a pair of upper bass/low mid bins with some smaller mid tops above those.

that's pretty much what i'm looking at woodwork skills aren't a prob- i'm working with a chippie of 20yrs experience with a full workshop [i almost feel it would be a waste not to build something complicated] i was looking at the mt102 or the similar selenium plan. a reasonably large system is the overall aim of the project, hopefully with the flexibility to remove parts of the kit for use in smaller venues. in terms of x-over, a pair of behringer ultradrives so we can set delays for any horns and also have spare channels for adding more stuff for bigger parties [possibly ending up with a 5way stereo setup].

your help is greatly appreciated

A typical large setup for your type of application would be X1's on sub, kick horns eg HD15 or similar then horn loaded mid-tops with a 12" and 1.4/2" compression driver.

If you want a really hard kick drum for house/trance/techno then a kick bin is quite important.  For other styles of music you can get away with subs and mid-tops which play lower.

I'm actually working on building a similar system at the moment and have designed a twin 15" horn to cover the 60-160Hz region.  It's not a proven design yet but initial results are promising.  Look for CHA215 in the new projects section.  X1's would be ideal to do the sub-bass underneath and for mid-tops either single 12" horn loaded (eg Porn Horns) or twin 12" direct radiating (eg X12) mids plus a large format compression driver would be ideal.

I haven't looked at the specs of the Black Widows recently but they might work in a 15" horn design.

a friend has recomended the USB as a kick horn, this would probably be done further down the line. the immediate aim is to get a working rig for parties/hireouts that we can build on.

the plan as it stands so far, first phase of build: pair of x1s and pair of twin 15 mids.

ooh-er missus  very cute indeed! what sort of frequency range is that suitable for? would the plan need modifying for the drivers i have? that is of course if the plan is available

re: BW characteristics/values, i found on t'interweb and gave them to sometime poster tendril who in turn put them into winisd and said "you can't put them in horns"

is that qsc a rmx2450? just picked one of those up second hand but barely used [never partied] for 250squids.

I've used the MT102 above dual 15" Reflex cabinets, the MT102 certaintly throw well.  Have not yet built any X1, but need to, in order to reproduce a nice 30Hz fundamental.