Hey folks -
I got called in to help resolve some issues for a small church that has had their own DIY sound guy for quite a few years, who's put together a system using off-the-shelf MI grade gear - certainly not the stuff I was used to 16+ years ago when I worked for a system contractor.
The good news is that most of the "fixes" are fairly straightforward - changing the way his monitors are set up, a little acoustic treatment, splitting up some circuits, etc.
Their biggest problem is no GBF for the pastor's wireless mic. After going through several purchases prior to calling me, they've actually got a pretty decent mic and wireless (EV, formerly known as "Telex" with RE97TX mic), but for monitors they're using the dreaded Galaxy Hot Spots (three of them) pointed at the dais where the pastor and several singers are.
The singers all use Shure wireless mics with the tried and true SM58 capsules, and are not a problem, but the boom mic on the pastor, being omni, combined with the peakiness of the response of the Hot Spots, is unusuable.
As I said, their main problem is simple - the Hot Spots right now are on the same amplifier and EQ as the mains, so they don't even have the option of pulling the Pastor down, or even out of the monitors. I'll be correcting that with a separate amp, driven by a monitor buss, etc. for the monitors, and am wavering between putting a decent graph in or going with something like a Driverack or Sabine Navigator to try to go in and "tweak" the system to try to flatten out the response of the Hot Spots to the maximum extent possible.
Galaxy doesn't publish any frequency or polar plots for these things (and before you suggest it, replacing them is not an option at this time), so all the "tweaking" and measuring will need to be done on site, using Smaart or perhaps a simple RTA.
Has anyone had any experience with taming these units down, and or done any response curve plots that I could use as a baseline to save time (and the client's money) in the field?