i have a couple of peavey fh1s lying around, kind of useless cos they dont go low enough to be subs. getting my head around their true identity as low mid boxes, i thought it might be kind of cool to frankenstein them into my two way system (subs and tops).
problem is, i don't know how to make it sound good.
they're currently in a stack with jbl prx 615s on top and a prx sub underneath (i know, butchering a perfectly good two way system here). i have a dbx driverack to process my signal. on the advice of another tech i tried the following cross over points 100, 350, with the powered tops and subs delayed by 2ms. it didnt sound particularly amazing.... very low middy really. im suspecting the peaveys have a lot more juice than the rest. tried turning them down via the driverack quite a bit, tried making the lower crossover point higher and lower (makes sense to me to have the peaveys throwing in a bit of extra vol where the kick drum is). tried making my shelves gentle/severe, tried varying the vol of the mids relative to the rest. realise i have no idea what im listening for and that probably the drive rack had a whole bunch of speaker appropriate eq etc deployed when it knew what speakers i was using (for some reason when i made my new preset it would only let me say what sub i was using).
so, question is, how do i get the best out of this configuration? (in case you are wondering why i am messing with the jbls the answer is, looking for more warmth, more volume, more clarity?? and the fh1s are just lying around otherwise.
problem is, i don't know how to make it sound good.
they're currently in a stack with jbl prx 615s on top and a prx sub underneath (i know, butchering a perfectly good two way system here). i have a dbx driverack to process my signal. on the advice of another tech i tried the following cross over points 100, 350, with the powered tops and subs delayed by 2ms. it didnt sound particularly amazing.... very low middy really. im suspecting the peaveys have a lot more juice than the rest. tried turning them down via the driverack quite a bit, tried making the lower crossover point higher and lower (makes sense to me to have the peaveys throwing in a bit of extra vol where the kick drum is). tried making my shelves gentle/severe, tried varying the vol of the mids relative to the rest. realise i have no idea what im listening for and that probably the drive rack had a whole bunch of speaker appropriate eq etc deployed when it knew what speakers i was using (for some reason when i made my new preset it would only let me say what sub i was using).
so, question is, how do i get the best out of this configuration? (in case you are wondering why i am messing with the jbls the answer is, looking for more warmth, more volume, more clarity?? and the fh1s are just lying around otherwise.
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