Hi.
I'm building cabinets for a high school drama theater. Its a volunteer project.
I've been recruited to help my 16 year-old's school drama/theater department improve the sound reinforcement system. They currently have a very beat up and small system with bad wires, mics speakers . . . its just bad.
An estate recently donated a concert reinforcement system to the department, but its old gear. Based on my best count (kids kept moving things) here's what we have:
6 - JBL 2445 with Community horns
2 - JBl 2460/61 with 2345 horns
2 - Altec 802 (not sure on this, no label)
3 - Altec 811b
2 - Altec 290's
6 - Altec 15's 421 8 and 921 8
2 - Altec 1003 (not sure if that's what they are)
8 - Gauss 5842 (4582's)
8 - EVM 15L
1 - Altec angle horn (plastic) and driver
1 - Cobraflex
8 - Community Leviathon horns in cabinets
Misc. snakes, QSC crossovers, Yamaha crossovers, some blown amps.
A little over half the stuff reads good with a volt-ohm meter. My thought was to take the most recent gear, probably the JBL 2445's, and either take good Altec 421/921's to build speakers or sell the woofers and buy newer JBL woofers. I'm working on fund raisers and selling the remainder of the gear to purchase 1 or 2 Crown class D amps, DBX driverack PA, a new mixer and some decent mics like SM58 or SM 57. Since this is theater work, something like the Crown PC 160 boundary mic and condensers may be better.
As I'm typing it really occurs to me that the woofers will need to have more Xmax than the available drivers. 2225's or 2226's would likely survive better.
I've got to keep in mind that students will use/abuse the final product. Its got to be tough, but I'd like to get good sound. The likely abuse sort of rules out building A-7 or 846 type cabinets. The final product will have to handle modern full range music. I just have to anticipate students and they will do crazy stuff. Maybe I need to filter below 35hz.
So my first step is to figure out what's junk and what might have value. I'm attaching pictures see if there's any thoughts about what to do with some of this equipment and on using newer woofers.