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Crackling/Clipping issues on Monitors
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<blockquote data-quote="Rob Aylestone" data-source="post: 217057" data-attributes="member: 13871"><p>First step is getting the bass player on your side. Why does he use the big cab? If it’s because he can feel the bass rather than hear it, the loss of it on stage will help you out front, but is the bass important for the music? For some styles, and this means event bands too where they might play dolly parton followed by eye of the tiger - your system will be pushed. Your PA speakers are not designed to replicate what a bass cab does. Many players use 10” drivers, after all. It’s about sharing bass. The bass guitar plays a note, so does the guitarist and so maybe does the keys player. One driver just cannot do that properly, and the sum and difference of all those notes can easily pop a coil out of the former, and before the damage, just sound horrible. It can work, but only with a PA with subs to take the load off the bass driver and a system with lots of headroom. I used to play in a band and we all used in ears. I had an 8x10” bass cab I used for bigger stages. The sound guy never had my DI bass fader off the stop. He explained I was just too loud, so we turned me down each gig until it was off on stage. Nobody noticed through their in ears. After three gigs off, I didn’t bring it. They noticed second gig and were certain they noticed. Then we told them we’d not had it even on for ten gigs. The PA has plenty of bass ability so everyone benefits. The only downside is that if my IEMs pack up, I’m stuffed, so I had a wedge I could turn up if something happened. If the PA makes fatty spikes pops on the bass, you don’t have enough bass spare capacity. A shared 15” driver really can’t replace a bass cab on stage AND do it’s proper job.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rob Aylestone, post: 217057, member: 13871"] First step is getting the bass player on your side. Why does he use the big cab? If it’s because he can feel the bass rather than hear it, the loss of it on stage will help you out front, but is the bass important for the music? For some styles, and this means event bands too where they might play dolly parton followed by eye of the tiger - your system will be pushed. Your PA speakers are not designed to replicate what a bass cab does. Many players use 10” drivers, after all. It’s about sharing bass. The bass guitar plays a note, so does the guitarist and so maybe does the keys player. One driver just cannot do that properly, and the sum and difference of all those notes can easily pop a coil out of the former, and before the damage, just sound horrible. It can work, but only with a PA with subs to take the load off the bass driver and a system with lots of headroom. I used to play in a band and we all used in ears. I had an 8x10” bass cab I used for bigger stages. The sound guy never had my DI bass fader off the stop. He explained I was just too loud, so we turned me down each gig until it was off on stage. Nobody noticed through their in ears. After three gigs off, I didn’t bring it. They noticed second gig and were certain they noticed. Then we told them we’d not had it even on for ten gigs. The PA has plenty of bass ability so everyone benefits. The only downside is that if my IEMs pack up, I’m stuffed, so I had a wedge I could turn up if something happened. If the PA makes fatty spikes pops on the bass, you don’t have enough bass spare capacity. A shared 15” driver really can’t replace a bass cab on stage AND do it’s proper job. [/QUOTE]
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