Sound
Managed by Rumble, Seven and The Eye
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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: 8/16) (35.5"h x 25.5"w x 24"d ~= 12.6 cu.ft)
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
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 (100% done)
- Signal and power flow plan (100% done)
- Equipment repair (100% 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 - lead by Lowroad
- Find a PC laptop to run XTA Audiocore - the crossover configuration software
- Make/buy a crate for all the cables (100% by NasaNich).
- Load out to the container (100% done - 6 Frogs and 6 Subs loaded onto Cory's container (Astor Playa), and the rest onto the NYC 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
- An SKB "DJ shuttle" packed with:
- Denon DN-X500 rack-mounted mixer
- Denon DN-1800F rack-mounted double CD player with controller
Wishlist
- Pioneer CDJ1000 (buy) CD players with single carry cases (buy) (4)
- Odyssey FTTXBLK Turntable Travel Case (buy) (4)
- Travel case for DJ mixer (buy) or (buy) (1)
- Crown iTech amplifiers
Cable inventory
(September 24 2007)
| XLR-XLR |
very long - 2 long - 4 |
| Speakon NL4FC - dual banana |
1 |
| Raw speaker cable | 1 roll |
| XLR Y cable 1f->2m |
2 |
| 1/4"m-XLRf |
1 |
| 1/4"m-XLRm | 2 |
| 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 | 0 (was 2) |
| Mini stereo - dual RCAm |
0 (was 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 |
0 (was 2) |
- Whirlwind Split 6 (available now: 2/2) (line level parallel splitters)
Power cables:
- 26 standard grounded + 1 not grounded
- Extension + 4-way splitter
- Extension
- Y cable
Mics:
The Bass with some bass at Compressor 2005.
