Sound

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Sound Systems

CROWN/CUSTOM

Touring rig originally designed by Clair Brothers Systems

Racks

• 3 Racks - 20U, 16" deep. 20½" internal rack width, including ventilation clearance. 3½" casters. 22½" W x 44½" H x 27" D - ~15.65 cu. ft. each
• XTA Electronics DP-226 Loudspeaker Management (crossover) (available now: 2/2)
• XTA Electronics DP-324 Dynamic Processor (available now: 1/1)
• Crown Macro Tech 1200 (amps) (available now: 20/20)
  

"Frogs"

4-way speakers (available now: 8/8) (45"h x 30"w x 18.5"d ~= 14.5 cu. ft.)

• Low - JBL 2240H (30 Hz - 2 kHz)
• 2x Low-Mid (in parallel) - JBL E120-8 (50 Hz - 6 kHz)
• Hi-Mid horn JBL 2385 / 2385A (500 Hz - 16 kHz)
• 2x Tweeter (in series) - ?

The enclosure has two Speakon NL8 8-pole panel connectors for daisy-chaining them. Each pair drives each of the components. Pair #1 is connected the low driver, 2 - Low-Mid (in parallel) , 3 - Hi-Mid, and 4 to the tweeter pair (in parallel)

Two Frogs have dead 18" woofers - replaced
One 12" Lo-Mid's diaphragm is cracked - replaced.

Subs

(available now: 7/16) (35.5"h x 25.5"w x 24"d ~= 12.6 cu.ft)

• JBL 2241H

The cabinet has two Speakon NL8 8-pole panel connectors for daisy-chaining them. The subs are organized in four groups on the speaker signal NL8 bus; the subs in each group are connected to only one of the 4 pairs. Four amps can power the four groups of subs by using one NL8 Speakon cable daisy-chain - each amp will be connected to one of the pairs.

Cables

Cabling diagram

Patch cables

• 2 x 5 XLRf-XLRm from XTA crossovers to amp channels (5-way on each side)
• 2 x 7 TRS-XLRm to daisy-chain amps (4 for a second set of Frog amps, and 3 for a total of 4 sub amps on each side)

NL8 Speakon cables

These whirlwind cables are 0.590" thick and carry 8 13GA conductors. look for model W13/8 here, or MULTILINE SPEAKER CABLES here.

• To Frogs - each component (Low, LoMid, HiMid, High) is wired to a different NL8 pair.
  • 4 NL8 cables terminating with 4 dual-banana pairs on the amp side.
  • 4 NL8 Speakon-Speakon patch cables to daisy-chain 2 frogs per amp-set.
• Subs - each sub is wired on one pair. 4 NL8 pairs will carry signal from 4 amps, and each group of subs will be wired to one of the pairs.
  • 2 NL8 cables terminating with 4 dual-banana pairs on the amp side.
  • 14 NL8 Speakon-Speakon patch cables to daisy chain 2 subs per amp-set. (we'll need only 6 of these if we don't get the extra 8 subs)
• Current Whirlwind NL 8 Cable wiring codes:

Pin#	Color	Pin#	Color
1+	Black	3+	Brown
1-	White	3-	Blue
2+	Red	4+	Orange
2-	Green	4-	Yellow

TODO

• Equipment testing (90% done)
• Signal and power flow plan (100% done)
• Equipment repair (90% done)
• Sub cabinet re-wiring - currently there are some subs wired for pair 1 and some for 2 - we need to get them all equally distributed between the four pairs. (100% done for the 8 subs that we have)
• Rex/Dex speaker mounting plan (100% done)
• NL8 speaker cable layout plan (100% done)
• NL8 speaker cable stripping/screwing/soldering party (100% done)
• Rack cooling solution
• Find a PC laptop to run XTA Audiocore - the crossover configuration software
• Make/buy a crate for all the cables.
• Load out to the container

MACKIE (amplified speakers)

• Mackie SRM450 (available now: 4/4) (15x15x26 = 3.39 total= 13.56)
  
• Mackie SRS1500 (available now: 3/3) (24x17x24 = 5.67 total= 17.01)
  
• Mackie SA1521 (available now: 2/2) (18x17x32 = 5.67 total= 11.34)
  

CREST/EAW

• Crest Audio CA9 (power amps) (available now: 3/3) (23x22x24 = 7)
  
• EAW MK5194 (500W speakers) (available now: 5/5) (20x16x30 = 5.56 total= 27.8)
  

total cubic feet for systems 2 and 3 = 77

DJ equipment

• Technics 1200s turntables (available now: 2/4)
  
• Denon DNS1000 MP3/CD players (available now: 2/2)
  
• Pioneer CDJ700s CD player (available now: 1/1)
  
• Pioneer EFX100 DJ Effector (arrives in NYCContainer?) Lessons in use from Cdjilnik
  

Mini D

Mini-D

• An SKB "DJ shuttle" packed with:
  
• Denon DN-X500 rack-mounted mixer
  
• Denon DN-1800F rack-mounted double CD player with controller
  

Would be nice to have:

• Pioneer CDJ1000 [1] CD players with single carry cases (2)
  
• Allen and Heath Xone 62 [2] DJ mixer with case (1)

Cable inventory

(Oct 13 2006)

XLR-XLR	long - 10 med - 13 short - 9
Speakon NL4FC - dual banana	1
Raw speaker cable	1 roll
XLR Y cable 1f->2m	2
1/4"m-XLRf	2+1 short
1/4"m-XLRm	1
1/4" TRS m - XLR m dual	1
1/4"m - 1/4"m	dual - 2 (in boxes) single - 5
RCAm-RCAm	dual - 6 single - 3
1/4"m - RCAm dual	1
RCAm - XLRm	1
RCAm - XLRf	2
Mini stereo - dual RCAm	3
Mini mono - single	1
MIDI	3
VGA - BNC components	1
BNC-BNC	1

Adapters:

Speakon f - dual banan adapter	1
1/4" stereo splitter m-2f	1
XLRm-m gender changer	5
XLRf -1/4"m	1
RCA f-f gender changer	2

• Whirlwind Split 6 (available now: 2/2) (line level parallel splitters)
  

Power cables:

• 20 standard grounded + 1 not grounded
  
• Extension + 4-way splitter
  
• Extension
  
• Y cable
  

Mics:

• AKG D800 - 1
  
• Shure SM58 - 1
  
• Beta58 - 1
  

The Bass with some bass at Compressor 2005.