Saturday, February 16, 2008

JBL VRX Arrays Anyone?

I'm curious to hear what some of you think about the VRX series from JBL. They also make a self-powered version of these as well. Our youth group meets in the school gym and I'd like to eventually move to a line array to get audio in the back of the room a little better. With the the point and shoot boxes we're running now, our sound is at its best up until FOH. Anything past FOH gets swallowed by the gym. I know.....gym swallowing sound instead of reflecting it everywhere you don't want? Yep. We have this weird rubber style floor and there is significant sound paneling around the entire walls of the gym. Recently our numbers have been increasing and now most of the kids have to stay in their seats due to room down front filling up. So now our focus is shifting from tweaking for worship down front to worship around the entire gym. Although I would prefer to go M'elodie series from Meyer in here, our budget isn't that large quite yet. Most of the reviews on audio blogs are very mixed. I can tell you this: we like to keep it at 105db at FOH usually during worship. So anyone with live experience with these cabs let me know how they stack up! Side note: anyone ever play around with the QSC WideLine array? Specs look pretty good, but haven't gotten to hear one in person just yet.

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