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Old 11th June 2012   #1
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Hi
I am having a bluegrass band play in my
back yard and will have 200 people.
i am doing the sound myself and using equipment
from my bands practice space
I have 3 sets of monitors. which do you think
will sound the best (most accurate) as the main PA speakers

I have a pair of JBL eons 515(plastic)

a pair of qsc K8

And the most expensive pair: RCF NX12 SMA

Which would you use for the mains if these 3 were your only choices.
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None are completely terrible. The rcf is best for what you're doing. The k8 are great but not enough gas to do outdoors and no monitor angle sucks but an acoustic focussing device (2x4) can fix that for monitor use.
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Agree the RCF will be your best bet for mains. If it's 1 mic bluegrass (everyone moves in and out from a LDC) then your job will be really simple and they won't need much monitoring.
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