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Bill Fitzmaurice wrote: ↑Sun Apr 30, 2023 2:24 pm Making the venue suitable for music is the venue's job, not yours.

Fair enough but it’s for a one-off project in a temporary space. If the reflections are going to be addressed it’s at least going to have to be initiated by me.

WOW! Now THAT is a reverberant room! Holey smokes! I'm trying to brainstorm how to address this. Any sound treatment I apply will have to be temporary. The cheapest solution I can think of is moving blankets hung from the trusses. Not the most elegant solution but I can rent them from Uhaul and see...

Incorrect choice of cutoff points and filter slopes for the application. Radian, thanks for your reply. I made these slopes much steeper than I had them previously and separated them by a good margin in order to ensure that I wasn't having the tops and subs reproducing the same frequencies and pote...

There should be a bunch of presets, eg Mono Subs/stereo mains, stereo subs/stereo mains, 3 way etc etc. Pick one of these presets that you'll never use, save into that and rename it as eg systemtryout. Yes. Everything you've done to date, well no, it will only save the last iteration of all you've ...

Seth wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 1:21 am
If you have less than four T30's the high pass should be set to 35Hz, per the plans.

Good catch, I had had it configured for 40hz because i had played around with fewer cabs the previous session and couldn’t remember if it was 30 or 35hz for four.

In a room that reflective, yes, dead spots (known as nulls) would be expected. Cab placement can help. How were the subs configured in the room in the sweep video? I highly suspect that the pulsing is also an artifact caused by the rooms acoustic qualities too. The measurements were taken with the ...

Thank you all again for your help. I managed to get back in the space briefly this past weekend. Grant, I didn't feel I had time to go through the adjustments relative to speaker response as you outlined. I'll give that a shot at when I've got more time in there. In the meantime I did play with the ...

There should be a bunch of presets, eg Mono Subs/stereo mains, stereo subs/stereo mains, 3 way etc etc. Pick one of these presets that you'll never use, save into that and rename it as eg systemtryout. Yes. Everything you've done to date, well no, it will only save the last iteration of all you've ...

Seth wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 9:28 pm

tactix wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 8:59 pm A measurement of what though? A frequency sweep? Recorded music demonstrating the issue?

Pink Noise

Got ya. Will do. Thanks.

Were the amp levels identical when the subs were placed in each location? I assume they were. For recorded music, too much bass/not enough tops makes it sound muddy. When you put the subs in the corner, you need to adjust the subs level down or the tops level up a fair amount. I prefer to keep the ...

Save what you've done already as eg SystemTryout (then later you can do some AB comparisons). Create a custom curve (once you've worked out what that should be), save ( I call my custom curve System tune), then auto EQ to that, so you're adjusting your custom curve based on room response. If you're...

...I n my preliminary test things sound better in the center of the room without boundary reinforcement... It's not the case every time, but more times than not, corner loaded subs will provide the most even response throughout a large room. If you thought it sounded better in the middle without bo...

Bill has described the use of kick bins as a relic of the 90s. Why? Because modern systems work better. When kick bins were invented most tops couldn't reach below 200Hz with high output. They needed to be augmented in the midbass. Modern systems don't. As for the tonal balance, that's done in the ...

Thanks for your response Grant. Appreciated. This is recorded music? Or are you doing reggae bands? I guess it's not really relevant in some ways, but the majority of people I see still using or asking about using kicks bins are doing so for reggae, and are predominantly based in the Caribbean. Reco...

Hello all I have a question about eq strategies for bass driven music, which in my case is reggae. Traditional reggae sound systems use mid-bass kicks to handle frequencies of say 90- 200hz. I think the idea here is that you have good control over the frequencies that give the visceral punch you exp...