Buying an Atomic CLR

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No answer from Tom, yet.

Maybe I'm going to send another requesto to him today.

Sure, I would.

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No answer from Tom, yet.

Maybe I'm going to send another request to him today.

Sent you a PM, matbard.

I have sent two emails and never got a response, but found another link about the reserve list and finally got a generic response.
Hoping that means i'm finally on the list.

goathair, I sent you a PM.

Just sent you an email. Thanks!

@nervousfingers_29, I also ordered from G66, offered the same day to UPS and got my order today. I went for the FR212 and will try it in a minute.
Good luck with your Q12A!

Let me know if you like the 2x12... Actually it looks killer and hope that it sounds like that.

Received my q12a today (ordered Wednesday). Really impressed although this means nothing on the first go - have to test it in a live situation...

Just testdrived it for 1 hour with the kemper and the profiles sound so much better than on my (not so cheap) studio monitors
Either this is just the feel of enough power or those monitors are not really frfr....

BTW, just tested the following, as I have a gig tomorrow and will not test the kemper there, I just tried to hook up my tube rack with an ENGL e530 tube preamp to the matrix (has a frequency compensated output with a cabsim built in).

I was really surprised about the sound. I had the sound from the preamp going into my Gmajor 2 FX unit and then normal output into the poweramp and my 2x12 - the frequency compensated output into the matrix q12 a. Was just great - I will use it tomorrow as a small stage monitor to enhance the sound on stage a bit...

was really a little bit scared at first because of the size as this thing is really small (2/3 of my 2x10 bass cab and half of my 2x12 guitar cab)... looks really tiny... I guess at 2nd one will relax myself a bit when playing live (-;

It does look killer and I get frightened by the sheer power they release...wow!
0.4 is enough on the master volume for the room I play in
I tuned CloneTones Trivium profile to the cab and played along with the album for a bit.
I really like what I hear...compared to the monitor speakers I used the other day these really pack some chumpy chugs, if you get what I mean

I must say that your choice is also good, because the threshold is quite a bit lower if you want to buy a second one and get some stereo going on. I won't do that quickly, I guess, this is enough to carry around. Although, it's maybe a bit heavier than my Marshall combo, but the handles on the side make it quite easy to carry them.

gotta get back to try them some more now!
cheers

Size and weight was one main argument for me.... When I use the Kemper live I do not want to carry all the stuff that I have to carry atm. When I use my main rig live I have one 4x12 ENGL Cab (heavy as hell), ENGL Fireball, GSystem in a case, cables, mic stands, mics.... and 2 Guitars. This is enough for my car...

I plan just to take the kemper in a 3Unit Rack + Matrix Q12a + maybe an additional wedge / monitor like the yamaha dxr10 or another Q12a... should be much more comfortable.

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Just pulled the trigger on a CLR active wedge, cant wait to compare it to my Mackie HD1221, im hoping to get more clarity and better spread of the sound so the volume can get turned down with the band and still
hear myself well.

In terms of sound diffusion, the CLR is engineered to contain most of the signal into a 90 solid degrees cone. Within the cone there's the highest sound coherence in its category, outside it the sound is dampened down very quickly.
Here follow some specs by the designer, they might shed some lights on your quest.

HTH

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The CLR will produce consistent response over a much larger angle than any guitar cab possibly can. At the same time, it will do a much better job of confining its radiation to its defined 90-degree pattern. IOW, it has a broader coverage pattern, but it also does a better job of minimizing stray radiation outside of that pattern. Both properties are beneficial.

Due to its midrange horn-loaded configuration, the CLR's directivity (the word "dispersion" is an unfortunate misnomer) is narrower than of that any speaker that uses a direct-radiating woofer in the band from approximately 500Hz-1.5kHz.

Given that it is physically impossible to get 60-degree directivity from devices this size in the sub-2kHz region (which is much more important than narrow directivity at high frequencies), it is moot whether narrower-than-90 degree directivity is desirable. It is not achievable without going to much larger devices than floor wedges.

Because of its directional discipline, a CLR will facilitate your ability to play at a reasonable volume while minimizing annoyance to the neighbors. This one attribute may make it worth considering, even if you will never need its maximum output capacity.

Much more than the "nominal" published pattern, it matters how a speaker's radiation pattern varies with frequency and to how low a frequency the directional control extends.
The RCF is narrower than the CLR at 10kHz (<40 degrees vs. 80 degrees ), narrower at 4kHz (60 degrees vs. 90 degrees), slightly narrower at 2kHz (75 degrees vs. 90 degrees), very close at 1kHz (85 degrees vs. 90 degrees) but broader at and below 700 Hz Hz. The CLR will be more articulate in a reverberant space at large distances due to its higher degree of control over low-frequency radiation, which is extremely effective in minimizing excitation of lower frequencies in the reverberant field.

Characterizing a speaker's pattern based on its 4-kHz behavior is a common, but essentially useless, practice. For purposes of predicting the ability to ""cut through" in reverberant spaces, it matters more how much control the speaker provides at lower frequencies and how consistent the radiation pattern is over all frequencies.

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"consistent radiation pattern over all frequencies".

That is exactly what im looking for, at the moment i have a small sweet spot and the sound changes a lot moving a few feet in the rehersal room (within the speakers 90x50 deg cone), the sound is more bass heavy and muffled toward the edges of the cone.

Any of you who have a clr get a shipping confirmation with tracking number?

Not sure I remember correctly... it seems to me I received a confirmation email from Tom King, can't be accurate about the tracking tho

Yes I had it that day, but I also got it overnight so...

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Any of you who have a clr get a shipping confirmation with tracking number?

Yes, IIRC.

Just got an update with tracking number, all good