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brian maddox:

--- Quote from: Tim Weaver on April 23, 2018, 03:11:26 PM ---You don't have Prism boxes.

http://www.paoftheday.com/showco-prism-sound-system/

what you have is typical of all soundcos in the 80-90's. Big, heavy boxes with big, heavy drivers stuffed in them. The sound guy with the most (heaviest?) drivers wins....

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Sorry, but somebody had to post it....

Doug Hammel:

--- Quote from: Collin Pfenninger on October 17, 2017, 02:33:57 PM ---Just trying to figure out what I have here. https://imgur.com/a/BZoG0 I believe that the prism shaped boxes are Showco pope boxes, or made from that design. As for the square rig, they are Showco tagged but have no serials... Have been told it was built for Willie Nelson but can't find any info on that also. Any info would be greatly appreciated! Any Questions feel free to email me. Wish I could attach all the photos but could only do one because of size requirement.

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If I remember right Colin, those are "SS" boxes. When I was there for a short time there were a bunch of those with no baffle boards that were stacked up as cable bins in the warehouse.

William Schnake:

--- Quote from: brian maddox on April 23, 2018, 05:36:13 PM ---Sorry, but somebody had to post it....

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Brian, I think of this drawing every time a new rider comes across my desk.  I prefer to do 'What the Venue Needs'.

Bill

Mike Caldwell:
Those are indeed Show Co boxes but not their top of the line Prism series.
I don't recall the model name of those, there just a basic front loaded direct radiator system.

A while back I saw an old Kiss concert video and those boxes were stacked up as side fills.
I bought some of those boxes a while ago as surplus, gutted them for parts, kept a few parts and pieces and sold the rest. Some of the double 12 boxes had the Yamaha version of a bullet tweeter in them.

I still have a few empty single 12 X 2  versions of those boxes in my barn. Way down on my project list is re vamping them and loading them with newer neo drivers, maybe I should have said way way down on my project list.

Tim Weaver:
A soundco I worked for had some Showco SS1 boxes. These are not those. SS1's had an E140 on a giant, heavy, cast aluminum straight horn flare. And a 2" JBL HF driver du jour. We had 2445's in ours. Heavy but stout little boxes. They were square, almost cubic, boxes.

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