I'm putting together a monitor wedge shootout at John Chiara's club in Troy, and I'm hoping to gauge here what would be a good time for it. I'd like to do it within the 4-6 weeks. Currently available dates for the month of August include the 11th, 18th, and 19th... possibly others if those aren't good. If you're interested please post or PM when you're available so I can plan this around having as many people as possible. Anyone who needs help getting directions or finding local lodging do the same. Food and Drink will be provided in quantity.
The club is at 425 River Street in Troy, NY 12180.
The installed system is Danley, with an X-VCA at FOH and a GL3300 at monitors. We'll have it to ourselves, there's plenty of beer and parking.
Wedges I know are coming:
Adamson
Community M12
FBT something
ADR Audio M1225
Radian Microwedge 12"
Peavey SP12
Wedges LABsters are bringing (if they can make it):
EAW SM500
EV XW15A
Wedges I would like to see:
Meyer UM1
L'Acoustics 115XT
Soundbridge Slice 7122WX
One of JBL's new toys
Other suggestions?
If anyone has a favorite they would like to bring and compare to these, that would be great. There will be plenty of power and DSP there... please let me know if I should get something other than DriveRack. Other toys that will be there include some Camco and Lab.Gruppen amps for powering the passive monitors, a digital snake or two, and depending on time frame an APB Dynasonics Spectra T.
I very much want the focus here to be on comparing sonic qualities of various higher-end wedges as opposed to verifying specs, so unless several people want to spend time measuring I'm going to try and keep it to A/B/Xing several different wedges placed identically with the same mic. I'll have some fancy Sencore product or another there for basic level matching, measurement, and sweep generation. If people want to bring instruments, that would be super cool, since then we could compare how well each wedge cuts through stage noise. I'll have plenty of mics there, graphic EQs for feedback elim are Rane GE30.
Anyone who would like to take a few of the demo wedges home with them to road test is more than welcome... pretty much everything there will be a manufacturer demo, and I don't have time to write them all up, so come window shop!
[EDIT: I'm updating this post as events warrant and new wedges become available.]