From list@sevush.com Thu Dec 25 06:51:55 2003
Subject:RE: SRM-450 - was: Re: OT:Speaker Stand

For me, that's a feature. The audience hears it clearer than I do. And I
don't know what distance you're sitting from it, but it sounds plenty loud
to me.

Sometimes it's a positioning tradeoff. If you're not feeding into a PA and
the Mackie is your only source, it's a balancing act. If I've only brought
one Mackie, I'll put it across the stage angled towards me and the
audience, so the rest of the band hears me also. Sometimes it's fun to take
the guitarist's head off that way.

I try to separate monitoring and house sound. I now use a KT80 for me, feed
the DI to a Mackie for everyone else.

> I use a Mackie SRM-450 and am considering getting rid of it. My
> complaint is that it does not have a short-throw horn. This means
> that although I can be sitting just in front of the cabinet, the
> audience hears a much hotter (more treble) sound than I do. In
> general I consider this a bad thing. I asked Mackie and they said it
> was impossible to change this configuration because the waveguide is
> molded into the enclosure. Anyone else bothered by this?
> -cliff