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Hi all! This is my first post, so be gentle.

Yes, gymnasiums and similar rooms are difficult environs to work in. I have done two rooms in the last year that were giant echo boxes and were quite challenging. One was a 9,000sqft room with hard wood floors, reflective side walls, and little acoustic treatment. The other was a smaller 3,500sqft room with high ceilings and concrete walls.

First off, a big +1 to the advice above. Ok, now for my $0.02.

The trick to good sound in an reverberant environment is great pattern control. This allows you to put the sound where it is needed and not onto reflective surfaces. One approach is to use very directional cabs, carefully aimed and aligned, to project sound very tightly on the subjects. Make sure you are not aiming the speakers so that reflected sound off walls is coming back directly to the listening area.

A little volume goes a long way. Once a reverberant room gets above a certain threshold, the echoes build up and simply bury the original sound. Another approach for reverberant spaces is to use multiple smaller cabs distributed and delayed accordingly so that they can provide good coverage at lower volumes. This requires careful setup and planning but can be very effective.

One more issue - Kustom Profile Two speakers are, well, sorry to be blunt - junk. Furthermore, they are not designed to be flown. Please tell me you did not rig these things into some sort of cluster over actual live people! I can only imagine the comb filtering from these cabs being bunched up together, not to mention the risk of speaker cabs falling on the listeners.

Do you have any pictures from the event? I would love to see how you set things up and others may find it easier to provide input.

Have a great day!