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Opinions on budget subwoofers
I am often fooled by the low bass in my mixes and am leaning toward
adding a sub to my stereo mix monitors. I currently have Tannoy Reveal passives for nearfields and JBL 4410A passive monitors for midfields. I have been looking at the Tapco SW10 and Tannoy TS 12 for my budget range. Anyone have any experience with either of these subs? |
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wrote: I am often fooled by the low bass in my mixes and am leaning toward adding a sub to my stereo mix monitors. I currently have Tannoy Reveal passives for nearfields and JBL 4410A passive monitors for midfields. I have been looking at the Tapco SW10 and Tannoy TS 12 for my budget range. Anyone have any experience with either of these subs? I don't. But I will say that you should check out the room before you invest in any hardware. If you have a bass problem in the room, adding a subwoofer will just make it worse. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Sounds like you might want to have your room response checked and
invest in some acoustic treatment and/or repositioning of your monitors before you add more speakers. |
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I don't believe it is about the room like everyone seems to think. I
have Owens-Corning 703 panels in strategic locations in what is already a small room with very little parallel due to items in the room which difract. I would rather not place a dedicated high pass filter in my mix chain if I don't have to. My 4410's are have a lower range but, as I said, I have been fooled by them also. I have a 4,000 watt FOH rehearsal room upstairs which shows up unpleasant extreme low-end sometimes but only when it is in the mix. Quality record mixes rarely have the problem, only my occasional mixes. What I need to know is if certain synth patches and high-tech active bass guitars which tend to create unwanted frequencies below 80Hz are putting things in the mix that only show up in bigger systems before I make the final mix. I do like the idea of the high pass for the sake of the mix but should I always just roll everything off at a certain low frequency? By the way, how would you increase (not decrease) the low end of a room with acoustic treatment or repositioning? |
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I don't believe it is about the room like everyone seems to think. I have Owens-Corning 703 panels in strategic locations in what is already a small room with very little parallel due to items in the room which difract. This is good but none of it really has all that much to do with low end response. I would rather not place a dedicated high pass filter in my mix chain if I don't have to. My 4410's are have a lower range but, as I said, I have been fooled by them also. I am not sure what you mean by a "dedicated high pass filter in your mix chain." Are you saying that you need to high-pass everything because you don't trust your ability to monitor low end? Or are you saying you don't want a crossover in your monitor chain? I have a 4,000 watt FOH rehearsal room upstairs which shows up unpleasant extreme low-end sometimes but only when it is in the mix. Quality record mixes rarely have the problem, only my occasional mixes. What I need to know is if certain synth patches and high-tech active bass guitars which tend to create unwanted frequencies below 80Hz are putting things in the mix that only show up in bigger systems before I make the final mix. I do like the idea of the high pass for the sake of the mix but should I always just roll everything off at a certain low frequency? No, you need a monitoring system that can accurately reproduce the low end. But if you have a room problem, and almost everyone does, putting a sub into the room will just make it worse. By the way, how would you increase (not decrease) the low end of a room with acoustic treatment or repositioning? First thing I would do is move the speakers closer to the rear wall, so the bass reinforcement provided by the boundary is at a higher frequency and stronger. I might even move them up into a corner if that worked. Second thing is that using bass traps can actually increase your low end, by fixing standing wave problems. If you move around the room and find that you have low end somewhere in the room but not anywhere else, you have a standing wave problem. If you move around the room and have no low end anywhere, you have a speaker problem. If you have a speaker problem, and you add a crossover and a good sub (and I second the recommendation for the Hsu Research subs) without touching the room, you will have a standing wave problem. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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"Scott Dorsey" wrote: [lowend probs] But if you have a room problem, and almost everyone does, ACK putting a sub into the room will just make it worse. - Using 1 sub - well, maybe. - With 2 subs - very probably not. - =3 subs? - never ever! http://www.harman.com/wp/pdf/multsubs.pdf Rudi Fischer -- ....and may good music always be with you |
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In article writes: a sub into the room will just make it worse. - Using 1 sub - well, maybe. - With 2 subs - very probably not. - =3 subs? - never ever! http://www.harman.com/wp/pdf/multsubs.pdf Would you trust the advice of a company who wants to sell you speakers when they tell you that you need to buy two of them? There's some logic to using a subwoofer for each main speaker, but it doesn't have much to do with the ability to hear bass. -- I'm really Mike Rivers ) However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over, lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo |
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Thanks. This is a hip tip.
peakester |
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