SYSTEM II is here!! Amazing new improvements!!evan@evancoleman.com for more info. regarding demo's, rates, etc.
SYSTEM II is here!! Amazing new improvements!!
Read a conversation with Todd Rundgren's Sound Engineer, Robert Frazza. If you can't belive this man, then you are lost.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/document?doc_id=99179&g=live
As a Product Specialist and frequent user of this sytem I have a very one-sided opinion. I use 2 Double Bass Systems for almost every gig I have when I'm using a Duo, Trio, Quartet, and beyond. As a Sax player, for years I had been forced to hear myself through floor monitors that usually ended up causing feedback or had some sad-ass mix that really only included the horns and vocals. It truly sucked.
True Story: One time in College, I was in an ensemble that featured guitar, sax, drums, vocals, etc. During our first rehearsal the guitar player was blasting his axe and I asked him to turn it down. He replied; "You chose your instument!" As if I had made a mistake and since he had an Amp. that I was just going to have to deal with the fact that he had volume control and I didn't... Well, NOW I HAVE MY OWN AMP!!!!! And any time I need to be as loud as some deaf guitar player, I can be!!
**I know it's hard for most Musicians to believe what a Product Rep. says. We are always biased or we wouldn't sell the product.**
Click Here to hear what other Musicians are saying. From Steve Miller to Paul Shcaffer, the Pros. are coming aboard!!
Your "box" Amp. does not provide sound like this!! More like this!
All the information here is from the Bose Website.
The Bose® Approach
Armed with an understanding of the root causes of musician and audience member complaints, we began to think about how they might be addressed with new technology. We went back to the property of loudspeakers that spawned triple systems – loud enough on stage but not loud enough in the audience, or loud enough in the audience but too loud on stage – and asked ourselves if ALL loudspeakers behaved this way. The answer was YES, all loudspeakers we’d ever used. But a member of our research team, Clifford Henricksen, had the idea for a new kind of loudspeaker, one for which the answer would be NO.
It’s shaped like a flagpole and because of its shape has very unique properties. First and foremost, the sound level diminishes very slowly with distance when compared to a conventional speaker. It also sends sound in a very wide-angle pattern across the stage and throughout the audience. And it sends almost no sound up or down.
If you put a speaker like this behind a musician, then that musician, his or her fellow musicians, and the audience all hear approximately the same sound. And if you put one behind each musician, they all hear themselves and each other with unprecedented clarity.
Think about how a loudspeaker like this can address the problems we uncovered in our research:
- A system composed of these Cylindrical Radiator™ loudspeakers represents far less equipment: there’s no PA, no monitors, no mixing console, and none of the wires needed to interconnect a triple system.
- Now audience members and musicians DO hear the sound come from the same direction as the player, and enjoy the deeper appreciation of music that results.
- Now the sound of the voices and instruments does come from multiple directions instead of mixed together, which is known to improve our ability to hear.
- There’s much less reverberation generated because these speakers do not send much sound to the upper walls and ceiling, resulting in significantly higher clarity.
- The problems of directional guitar amplifiers are gone because the sound is now radiated evenly across the stage and throughout the audience with little change in tone or level.
- And finally, the musicians – and no one else – are back in complete control of their music…as they were throughout history until just the past thirty or so years.
