WideLine8 in the AGI warehouse

We’ve had the pleasure of having one of the new QSC WideLine 8 compact line array system’s dropped off to us to play with for a few weeks.

Although this was our first “overnight” demo several AGI staff members have mixed on WideLine systems with great success.

We came together as a company with QSC rep Brendon Brown (from The Farm AV) formerly the tour manager & FOH mixer for Hoobastank. It wasn’t raining on this day (surprisingly) so we took it outside into the warehouse parking lot and took a listen. We even shot it down an adjoining street to see what the coverage was as you moved away from the stacks. In the end we were very impressed with the range and coverage with the WideLine.

Lead Installer Ray and I took this system to a local church’s youth worship night. This church has a pretty rocking band and we were “taking it to 11″. The system performed very well and it really showed off it’s “rock and roll” punch.

At the end of the night, it was all about the load out – and this system broke down and loaded out with ease. From there it was to Dairy Queen to reward us for a job well done. And no, we didn’t share our ice cream with the WideLine.

Kyle, Steve, Ray & Zack with Todd & Raul from JBL

On Wednesday our friends from Plus Four Marketing (Todd) and JBL (Raul) came down to show us the new subcompact line array system, armed with three VT4886 3-way top boxes and two VT4883 dual 12″ subs boxes. We were very impressed with these new boxes when we heard them last week and we wanted to hear them again. This time Todd brought Raul who works with JBL as a Touring Sound Field Engineer to tell us more about the boxes, how they are being used, and show off some of the impressive new DSP built into the new Crown HD amplifiers specifically for this set of speakers.

Not only did Raul impress us with his knowledage and real-world application information for these speakers but his music collection was equally impressive. Overall we were very impressed with the system. As a matter of fact our owner & audio designer Kyle Anderson said “If I had to write an email right now, all I would write is: WOW!”

Things we liked about the system:

1) Incredibly compact – this system has a very small footprint – but don’t think it doesn’t have the horsepower.

2)Smooth articulation - the mid-high frequencies were articlulate and clear with lots of definition without being fatiguing.

3) The subs – the dual 12″ subs had very impressive output with a nice defined punch and had very good impact. Unlike other sub woofers it did not excite our entire warehouse – it simply hit us in the chest. We like that.

4) Efficiency – lastly we were impressed that this system (3x VT4886 and 2x VT4883) ran off of one Crown i-TECH HD amplifier plugged into a 15amp circuit (which also did all of our DSP)!

In review – we would very impressed and feel this is a new level for the JBL VerTec line up. We would highly recommend this sytem for applications that call for an super compact, high SPL setup with high sonic fidelity.