Chris Jolocon
Member
Hi,
My school's auditorium recently underwent a renovation. We have a dead hung schedule 40 1.5" pipe grid, 4' spacing. Grid is about 17' above deck. I want to see if it is possible to safely mount two loudspeakers from one of the battens, ideally the one just upstage of main curtain, keeping the speaker just below the grid.
I've looked at various mounting brackets, such as the Yamaha BBS251. It allows for a maximum angle of 45-degrees, however I might want the speaker to angle further downward, almost straight down, as in loudspeakers that are mounted in drop ceilings at stores and offices. Any suggestions? I am flexible on which loudspeakers to mount, although I was initially thinking something like Yamaha CBR 10" or 12" or equivalent EV product. Speakers would be used as monitors for when we do musicals to pre-recorded backing tracks, or in the case of an assembly with students on stage, upstage of main curtain where it is difficult to hear the main system. These would not need to get particularly loud, for instance in the event of a rock band on stage requiring monitors I would use floor wedges.
An alternative I am considering is using eye bolts on bottom of each speaker and suspending them from the grid, probably in the downstage corners (just upstage of where each side of main curtain is drawn), maybe about 9' above deck. Any thoughts or suggestions?
My school's auditorium recently underwent a renovation. We have a dead hung schedule 40 1.5" pipe grid, 4' spacing. Grid is about 17' above deck. I want to see if it is possible to safely mount two loudspeakers from one of the battens, ideally the one just upstage of main curtain, keeping the speaker just below the grid.
I've looked at various mounting brackets, such as the Yamaha BBS251. It allows for a maximum angle of 45-degrees, however I might want the speaker to angle further downward, almost straight down, as in loudspeakers that are mounted in drop ceilings at stores and offices. Any suggestions? I am flexible on which loudspeakers to mount, although I was initially thinking something like Yamaha CBR 10" or 12" or equivalent EV product. Speakers would be used as monitors for when we do musicals to pre-recorded backing tracks, or in the case of an assembly with students on stage, upstage of main curtain where it is difficult to hear the main system. These would not need to get particularly loud, for instance in the event of a rock band on stage requiring monitors I would use floor wedges.
An alternative I am considering is using eye bolts on bottom of each speaker and suspending them from the grid, probably in the downstage corners (just upstage of where each side of main curtain is drawn), maybe about 9' above deck. Any thoughts or suggestions?