Three way horn system (4 way at the moment)
Hello all. After some time of lurking, this is my first post. Recently I have heard my friends horn system. As mid-bass he uses w-bin folded horns with one 12" Isophon driver, roughly 100x100x80 cm in size, then something like "smith" radial horn with a Coral 1" driver and Coral tweeters at the top, all with active crossovers. Except for PA, my first experience with horns.
What I noticed, the bass guitar, snare, kick, voices - all almost like alive during a rehearsal (I am musician too). I could even feel the bass, although it could not be very low. The music was playing loud, but it did not feel lound until i tried to speak. Awesome. I have a few questions.
What would be the bass-mid crossover frequency for such a system?
I hope I could use compression drivers and horns from around 1kHz, but I am afraid bass horns just won't fit into my room. What bass system would you recommend? I do not need very low frequencies, I would like to have this tight sounding bass. As far as drivers concerns, I am more or less limited to Monacor, Eminence, B&C, Selenium, Beyma or RCF.
Update after 11 years🙂 (BTW, the horn system described above was identified meanwhile as the Danish Jealvox clone)
The current setup (October 17th, 2019) is (per side):
40 Hz bass horn with 15" speaker - Cerwin Vega inspired design - up to 120 Hz (one more per side is waiting to be installed)
JBL4560-like front horn with 15" Black Widow speaker - up to 600 Hz (to be replaced with John Inlow 135 Hz midbass horn in a few months)
JBL2445 + JBL2380A clone - up to 4.5 k, passive XO to HF (gorgeous Yuichi 290 horns are in production)
Beyma CP385Nd on 2380A with a custom 3D printed adapter (will be installed soon - the prototype needs some little adjustments)
The HF + MF will most probably be one day with a single 1.4" driver (maybe BMS4554) either on the Yuichi or another large horn.
Each side is using 3 channels of amplification (SE EL34 for the MF+HF) and one t.racks DSPmini for crossover, delays and EQ.
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