kjones9999
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Hi all.
So I work in a school system that has two identically horrible theatre spaces. Basically an 800 seat house with concrete walls and little if any sound absorption.
I typically use two large cabinets on the sides of the stage, and EQing so that the wireless mics are intelligible makes them very tinny. Any low end gives a bad echo. So I just pick an area in between. I do have a Sabine GraphQ that helps me isolate some of the frequencies, but its still hit and miss.
I am trying out powered 15" JBLs this year, and the plan is to put them in a horizontal array at stage level facing the audience (3 speakers). The hope here is so that the main part of the house (we typically only use the center 400 seats) the audience will be guaranteed to hear sound directly from the speakers and not from a secondary reflection.
Am I thinking correctly? How do others deal with really "echoey" spaces?
On another note -- we have sennheisers and I usually run the sensitivity low -- -45db or so and compensate with the mix. What do you do?
Thanks all, as always, for the input...
So I work in a school system that has two identically horrible theatre spaces. Basically an 800 seat house with concrete walls and little if any sound absorption.
I typically use two large cabinets on the sides of the stage, and EQing so that the wireless mics are intelligible makes them very tinny. Any low end gives a bad echo. So I just pick an area in between. I do have a Sabine GraphQ that helps me isolate some of the frequencies, but its still hit and miss.
I am trying out powered 15" JBLs this year, and the plan is to put them in a horizontal array at stage level facing the audience (3 speakers). The hope here is so that the main part of the house (we typically only use the center 400 seats) the audience will be guaranteed to hear sound directly from the speakers and not from a secondary reflection.
Am I thinking correctly? How do others deal with really "echoey" spaces?
On another note -- we have sennheisers and I usually run the sensitivity low -- -45db or so and compensate with the mix. What do you do?
Thanks all, as always, for the input...