hey everyone i have a question
when i have 2 normal statives (not windup) and i set the speakers on that how to place the speakers to have the best sound. I place them to the people but i dont think its the best way. On windup i will place it to the center and a little bit down.
Thank you!
You really need to know the sound dispersal pattern of the speakers. Lets take the Yamaha DXR series for an example. They have a horizontal coverage of 90° and a vertical coverage of 60°. So that's 45° either side of the centreline for horizontal spread and 30° either side of the centreline for vertical spread.
Your speakers may have slightly different angles, but those ones are quite common.
Until you get familiar with it, you might want to get some masking tape, stick it on the top and side of the speakers and draw on those angles. Then when positioning your speakers, you can look along those lines and see how much of the space is covered.
You'll normally want to get the speakers as high as possible, especially if the stage is the same level as the audience, and then pointing down into them slightly. You can point the speakers down by up to 30° (for those Yamahas) anyway, and you'll still be getting a clear sound projecting straight to the back of the space. Also, angling them down means that less sound is directly hitting the ceiling (if inside), so less reflections and a clearer sound in the audience. Likewise, you can angle the speakers in from the walls, which means more of the audience area is covered and again, less direct reflections from the walls for a clearer sound.
People can absorb a lot of high frequency sound energy. Having the speakers too low, so with them only just above head-height means that a lot of the higher frequencies are absorbed by the front rows of the audience, and don't reach the back of the audience, so it is important that the HF horn part of the speaker at least, is high enough to point down towards the people at the back of the audience.
If your speakers don't have two mounting holes (one for flat mounting, one for angled down), then you can get angled adapters to fit on standard speaker poles, and even speaker poles with the ability to angle the top part of them built-in.
But if you are interested in getting some, be careful that you get one that's the right size for your speaker pole and socket. Confusingly, speaker poles and speaker mounting holes come in 35mm and 36mm diameters (dependent on the manufacturer).
Your Proel stands are 35mm diameter, so you need a 35mm adapter. Get one that's too big and it won't fit the hole in the speaker. Get one that's too small and its not very secure - not good if you are angling the speaker forwards and down.
But if you do angle the pole downwards, you are moving the centre of gravity forwards, so it's important to have one of the speaker stand legs pointing straight out in front of the speaker, and not the other way round with the legs out to either side of the front of the speaker.
