Thinking about this. Not from personal experience, so sue me tooScott Brochu wrote:Oneplaybass, I do the same as much as possible. I too prefer the sound of a center cluster than the side ones.oneplaybass wrote:Before I get blasted let me say that I very much prefer to center cluster the Titans and put the tops on poles and I do so as much as possible. Yes I've read the placement stickies. Yes I know that sub freq's are NOT directional. I'm just saying that as a musician I don't like the feel I get from the FOH when they are on the side.
I'm in trouble now aren't I ?
SO if it is wrong, well sue me.My ears don't lie.
But before you sue me teach me how to put them off the side properly.
What you and oneplaybass have noticed may have to do with delay between tops and subs. Bill has often said that one reason why a number of his cabs (particularly DR's if I'm not mistaking?) sound sweet to the ear, is that the horn for lows and low mids is long so the LF slightly lags behind the HF from the tweeters. It seems our brain likes this. The other way around (highs/high mids lagging behind lows and low mids) is conceived by our brain as dull. What you feel on stage with the subs a lot closer to the musicians than the tops, may very well be a case were the sounds from the tops lags just behind the LF from the subs, making it sound dull on stage. It's you only that suffers, in front of the tops everything should be fine. Unless you have the subs at the side near some members of the audience, as oneplaybass points out indeed: they would be in the same situation with loud LF and highs lagging behind.
Just thinking out loud. Bill may very well
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