cutlunch said:
Donald I agree with the other posts that I wouldn't sell them. I would get the damaged
speaker replaced. I would use the EV's for general use such as your DJ'ing and keep the JBL's for live vocal work, if the JBL sound better. That is after listening tests prove which
speaker is best for vocal work.
As you have already proven one set of speakers got damaged in less than a year so you need a second set as spares. Also you may not be lucky enough to have such a kind person next time to buy new speakers. Also the school may not be to happy if you sell the EV's then the JBL's fail and you need more speakers.
Did you find the source of the
clipping? I thought you had a
processor unit in your
system, you may wan't the installation company to check the settings on it in case there is someway of preventing further
clipping.
In our new facility we do have a
processor. We haven't clipped since moving in (unless we got careless with our
monitor mixes and weren't paying attention... which is extremely rare with our
current TD).
In our old facility we didn't have a
processor... we relied on a
feedback destroyer and what little savy we had. Unfortunately we also had to set up sound,
FOH lighting,
etc. in an hour and a half to two hours prior to any tech rehearsal and show... as well as tear down everything after each tech rehearsal and show. Because of the rush, sometimes
gain structures were a tad high. This was the source of our
clipping.
I'll also admit... the other big cause of our
clipping over the past several years was my lack of knowledge about sound (which, thanks to all of the brilliant people here, is growing). Since I didn't really know what to look for we clipped a lot until I read a couple of books, paid for a lot of
speaker repair and joined this forum. My students, coincidently, also did not know what to look for :S.
Now any
clipping that happens is my fault because I haven't properly trained the TD to look for it and set things up to keep it from happening. It is only happening now in our
monitor mix as we're still a tad inexperienced with mixing monitors with
FOH (we couldn't afford monitors at our old school).
My new facility is wired
mono. Our main
FOH speaker is a very large EV
wedge (I wish I had the specs memorized... I'll look it up and post later). The rest of the space is filled with six (3 per side) small EV speakers (again... don't really know the specs). They are set up, though, to fill in any space that the
FOH doesn't reach. They also gave me two new
monitor speakers (EV) which I use in conjunction with a pair of older EV SX-100's (the ones that originally were damaged leading to the
purchase of the JBL's). I run one mix in parallel as
wing fill. and the other mix as the pit/
instrument mix. I bust out the JBL's whenever I do a DJ gig for the school.