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There are a few tricks you can pull out of your sleeve to make your low frequency arrays work better. By building directional subwoofer arrays, energy can be kept off the stage and walls and kept on the audience where it belongs. These arrays require a little more signal processing and planning to implement, but the reward can be as much as 20dB less energy where it isn’t wanted. I’m going to demonstrate how to implement these arrays yourself with any collection of identical front-loaded subwoofers.
We’re going to explore two kinds of arrays, cardioid and end-fire, both of which create wideband rejection to the rear and sides of the array. The name “cardioid” means the same thing as it does for directional microphones: the polar response of the array has a heart-shaped pattern. While we are technically describing a desired pattern shape rather than a specific type of array, it has become common in the live sound industry to describe this first type of subwoofer array as “cardioid.”...

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