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Djing school dance, Need help with set-up.

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  • October 20, 2015 at 3:23 pm #2280051
    DJ Vintage
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    If you’ll forgive me for not commenting on the gear. I am not personally familiar with it. I AM a tad worried about the total price for the entire setup, which seems on the low end (Canadian dollars?). But if it’s what you used before, you know what you are getting.

    I would (in case of having 4 speakers available) normally go for a 4-corner setup. Where each speaker roughly is aimed at the center. This allows you to keep the volume level pretty well balanced all over, people move towards the middle of the floor to create a nice, busy hot spot and keep music beyond the dance floor lower.

    Just my two cents as usual.

    October 20, 2015 at 5:12 pm #2280271
    bob6397
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    I sort of know the gear – the Yorkville speakers are meant to be really good..

    But layout is where I can comment – I would set it out like this (I do a similar event a few times a year where we use 8 speakers in a room like this). This is how we have found makes those rooms sound the best and gets the most even sound accross the floor:

    (The tops on the stage are set above the subs.. It’s hard to do with a top-down diagram… 😉

    I would run all the speakers from the same mix out on the desk, and adjust the levels actually on the speakers themselves. Once it is set up, you shouldn’t need to touch it (Although remember when sound checking that people absorb quite a lot of the bass – so make sure it is nice and high)..

    You may want to see if the company can provide you with something like this – http://www.altoproaudio.com/products/stealth-wireless – it will save running XLR’s down the entire room (like I normally have to.. We normally fly them along the ceiling but that may be impractical in this situation).

    bob6397

    October 21, 2015 at 5:05 am #2280771
    Jordan Whittaker
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    No worries! Yea Long and Maquade rent for ridiculously cheap. It’s actually insane. All of their equipment is top notch though, so it’s no worries! :)Been considering the two speakers on each side setup! Nice to see another person who gives that the thumbs up! Thank you!

    October 21, 2015 at 5:06 am #2280781
    Jordan Whittaker
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    This looks like an awesome setup! Do you know if there would be any issues with delay? Or would that all be made fine by having the speakers evenly placed.

    October 21, 2015 at 8:14 pm #2281441
    DJ Vintage
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    Nah … there will be some delay issues .. but since the closest speaker will always be the loudest, for the people on the floor this should not be an issue. At the booth you will hear two or three signals with varying delays coming back. With a setup like this either a booth monitor or mixing in cans is essential.

    October 21, 2015 at 9:53 pm #2281581
    bob6397
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    We tend not to have delay issues at all once the room is full – people absorb quite a lot of energy out of the highs/mids in particular and this stops the sound from the back getting to the front..

    I have played through the system like this with no monitors and without mixing in my headphones and its easy.. The hard bit is judging volume levels on the floor – it is always significantly quieter behind the speakers.. So some DJ’s end up pushing the levels a bit so it is louder for them (again, due to not having monitors) and then it gets really loud on the floor…

    One DJ actually equed his music so that it sounded right for him once.. He was behind the speakers, and next to a sub. So he took out all the low end and added lots of high… Result on the floor = awful sound 🙁

    bob6397

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