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Good day, I think digital is the correct advice. I also encourage people that have analog to use it and really figure out what's possible. All those analog skills definitely translate to digital. (I have run both, and analog is what I have right now.) I ran the subs exactly as Seth prescribed: big t...

I wish, I'm stuck in analog, and don't own gates. Someday. What I do currently is run the fader on the kick channel at it's max, and then adjust gain/sensitivity to get the amount of kick I want. At least that's the best way I could figure out to do it to limit feedback or return. It works pretty we...

Thank you Seth, very helpful. It looks like 4 1/2' front-to-front with a 4mS delay is centered about 63 Hz which works great because it's the kick drum mic that can't be high passed like vocal/instrument mics and likes to give boomy response with the "stage rumble" causing havoc instead of...

Good day, Would you kindly give a little more information about your cardioid setup? I need to do something similar since I'm pummeling our band with SPL well over 110dB from the subs, sometimes 118dB if we're playing a larger audience, which gets pretty wearing for a 4 hour gig. In addition, we'd l...

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Thank you, great feedback. I'm sorry I wasn't clear, but not surprised. I'm in the design phase of a PA to haul around for our rock and roll cover band Dusty Tones . In the end, of course, it's what everyone here says: it boils down to what you want to carry at the end of the night. Our current syst...

Test plan. I've got a GRS 10PT-8, and I have some 4 Ohm 20W wirewound resistors. I'll generate a 2.828V RMS 80, 160, 320, 640, 1280, and 2560, summed sine waves. I'll send that into an el-cheapo power amp I've been wanting to test out and through the resistors. I'll hook an oscilloscope up to the re...

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Good day all, TL;DR: For live sound, is inter-modulation a factor to address or ignore? The best home audio systems I've heard are planar speakers powered with a single amplifier, which says inter-modulation may not be a significant concern. My live band experience with sub-woofers says inter-modula...