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  • 05-01-2014 10:27pm
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    smithfish
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭


    Hi. I was thinking of using a stage monitor as my main sound amp, guitar and vocals. Can these be turned towards the crowd or would a wedge shape speaker be better. Thanks for any help.


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    TroutMask
    Registered Users Posts: 743 ✭✭✭TroutMask


    Yes, you can do this. Good wedges are expensive though, probably as much as a good PA speaker. I'm liking the QSC powered PA boxes K series. Also the distinctly non-Yamaha sounding Yamaha DSR 112 is one to watch - it sounds amazing: nothing but compliments when I use it


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    smithfish
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭smithfish


    Thanks a million TroutMask, ill check them out.


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    TroutMask
    Registered Users Posts: 743 ✭✭✭TroutMask


    The main diff. between a wedge monitor and a PA speaker, apart from the shape (and some PA speakers come in asymmetrical cabs so that they can do double duty as wedges) is the orientation of the HF horn driver flare and the dispersion pattern. Monitor wedges are designed to have a tight dispersion beam so that the monitor engineer can control the stage mix into localised zones with a minimum of spill. This may not be what you want in a PA speaker (though it would probably work fine in, say, a cabaret). Typically a wider spread is desirable in a PA speaker (unless it's a line array) - so you'll have a speaker that radiates more in the horizontal plane than in the vertical, at least for the high frequencies. In this way you'll get more coverage over an audience in a wide venue, and minimise reflections off the ceiling and floor (which you'll want to avoid.)


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