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<blockquote data-quote="kristianjohnsen" data-source="post: 89096" data-attributes="member: 441"><p>Re: Aux feed subs?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Here's a better test: Talk into any microphone, set the channel controls like you normally would for a show. Switch off your high/mid-speakers. Can you hear a muddy version of your voice coming from the subs? This would be gone if going AUX-fed <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Now imagine the vocal mic is a lav, sitting on a high-profile-client. And he decides to "walk the floor" and he's standing right in front of one of the subwoofer systems...</p><p></p><p>Edit: It seems to me that many of the younger techs who absolutely love AUX-fed subs, almost felling like it's necessary to use that technique to put on a good show, previously had some "bad habits" when running normal L/R-feeds: Instead of addressing those, they decided to go the AUX-fed route to fix their issues. </p><p></p><p>What I'm talking about is boosting the subs in a L/R-system so much that the playback test music CD has chest-punching bass with all EQs set to flat. Even with the HPF engaged a vocal mic channel is essentially a "flat" channel when run through a L/R-setup like this. </p><p></p><p>Also, many techs have read and heard so many places that EQs should be used to cut ony, and never boost anything - so they forget that it's entirely possible to tune the L/R-system a little "thin" and just boost the low end on those channels that need it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kristianjohnsen, post: 89096, member: 441"] Re: Aux feed subs? Here's a better test: Talk into any microphone, set the channel controls like you normally would for a show. Switch off your high/mid-speakers. Can you hear a muddy version of your voice coming from the subs? This would be gone if going AUX-fed :) Now imagine the vocal mic is a lav, sitting on a high-profile-client. And he decides to "walk the floor" and he's standing right in front of one of the subwoofer systems... Edit: It seems to me that many of the younger techs who absolutely love AUX-fed subs, almost felling like it's necessary to use that technique to put on a good show, previously had some "bad habits" when running normal L/R-feeds: Instead of addressing those, they decided to go the AUX-fed route to fix their issues. What I'm talking about is boosting the subs in a L/R-system so much that the playback test music CD has chest-punching bass with all EQs set to flat. Even with the HPF engaged a vocal mic channel is essentially a "flat" channel when run through a L/R-setup like this. Also, many techs have read and heard so many places that EQs should be used to cut ony, and never boost anything - so they forget that it's entirely possible to tune the L/R-system a little "thin" and just boost the low end on those channels that need it. [/QUOTE]
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