thomas

Yeh, hopefully behringer will leave them alone, and tbh i think they will, be nice if they learned a thing or two from them along the way. RCF aren't with mackie anymore tho, and are producing some lovely products now, so it seems they managed to recover but JBL has been a bit sucky for quite a while now and i cant see a similar return to past glories for them, shame really.

I dont think you cant get a PA for 500 people for £700. If your only doing vocals, id get the nicest used 2x12 tops you can and a used europower amp. Any more complexity in the system and prices increase to much.

Just how related to behringer are they? Midas & Klark Teknik have always impressed any behringer own them, albeit only recently.

As for recomendations spend some time with winisd and model loads of drivers till you get something that suits you conditions. For bass cabs I'd usually look at Sensitivity and Xmax first.

Sure you know already but it doesn't mean they need 700W of amp power to work well. As I'm sure other will say power handling is one of the last specs to get hung up about.

Italians make the best drivers Your almost spoilt for choice. Assuming you can get those Italian made units for decent prices I'd go with them over Eminence to. Look at FaitalPro and B&C to altho they are both expensive. 4mm xmax isn't great tho so look out for a driver with a more, all the compaines you listed make ones. You haven't looked very hard if thats the only driver you found that is happy with low end. Plus if you dont need massive low end you should be able to get a very loud compact box. As for a midrange looking at BA's choice of 6 or 6.5 inch drivers beyma seem to do the good ones, just make sure its got a high sensitivity so i'll keep up with the 12's. [url="http://www.bluearan.co.uk/index.php?id=BMA605ND&browsemode=category"]http://www.bluearan.co.uk/index.php?id=BMA...semode=category[/url] Finally if you do go ahead and make it with a correct X-over and with good components it will crush almost any commercial cab, plus building boxes is fun anyway.

Very nice Jim!

Unless your loading the cab with a PD1850 12mm birch ply with some decent bracing should be plently. 15/18mm ply may be easier to work with if you're new to woodworking tho. Unfortunatly, you should expect to pay upwards of £40 a sheet, so when buying remeber to look out for even thickness in the layers and as few voids as possible. Its not really that hard to find if you look at the correct places, hell if you go for the 18mm thick stuff even B&Q stock it (and cut it for you), but you should try buy it from your timber merchant above them.