Would it be a crazy idea to use main monitors as PA in a smaller size club? I'm curious as some of the better mains have extremely high SPL and very low distortion figures.
A speaker is a speaker. What makes a speaker a floor monitor is its shape. Some may have some additional optimizations like individual level controls or horn level contrrols, but then so do some PA cabs. You can just as easily have regular PA cabs on posts as side fills acting as monitors. What matters is if you can get a sound you like from a cab. if your monitors sound OK TO YOU, then they ARE OK.
As someone who used to run sound, I care what my mix sounds like, but I also never lose sight of the fact that the mix is for the audience. If you are playing to dancing drinkers in a club, they are not going to care about that last half a percent distortion. And that oh so careful partial panning and what not to get the sound staging to sound like a recording, well, that is utterly lost on the dance floor. IN many clubs the tables are off to the side or way in back, so in many cases tables on the left can't hear the PA speakers on the right anyway. SO much for stereo.
SO not crazy at all, hook it up at sound check and see what you think.
As someone who used to run sound, I care what my mix sounds like, but I also never lose sight of the fact that the mix is for the audience. If you are playing to dancing drinkers in a club, they are not going to care about that last half a percent distortion. And that oh so careful partial panning and what not to get the sound staging to sound like a recording, well, that is utterly lost on the dance floor. IN many clubs the tables are off to the side or way in back, so in many cases tables on the left can't hear the PA speakers on the right anyway. SO much for stereo.
SO not crazy at all, hook it up at sound check and see what you think.
Depends. Do you with main monitors mean recording studio main monitors. If so, I wolud say no unless you are going to play quite low.
Some of these can sustain continuous levels of 120db spl. which is louder than most clubs average volume, but I guess the dispersion angle might be quite different.
Basically, something like this:
S7A MK2 - Description | ADAM Audio GmbH
They can sustain continuous 128db SPL for long periods of time.
If you compare it some of the high-end PA stuff, it's not that different once you figure-in cost of the amps. You can just have two mains + massive subwoofer array and proper acoustic treatment for an incredible sounding club.
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