Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Bennett Prescott" data-source="post: 41625" data-attributes="member: 4">Re: Crossover vs EQ: Help me understand.John,Just repeat &quot;serenity now, serenity now!&quot;. My frustration with how some BEs treat a PA I feel I&#039;ve really done a good job on led to me create this video, I&#039;m sure the humor will hit home with you:[media=youtube]PD0xOSv7cQM[/media]At the end of the day, the BE is the creative one and you and I are the scientific ones, but all the audience cares about is whether it sounded good. If the BE feels that they have done themselves a service by dumping sliders on the EQ, they&#039;re the boss... Admit it, it didn&#039;t really sound bad, it just annoyed you because it wasn&#039;t &quot;right&quot;. Even the +/- 15dB available on a graphic EQ can&#039;t fuck up your sub/top alignment that badly, and if they really want those frequencies gone... well, maybe you weren&#039;t using a steep enough XO. Maybe they didn&#039;t like your answer to their crossover question. Frankly, I always answer &quot;80Hz&quot;. That makes most people happy, and the folks who &quot;get it&quot; aren&#039;t going to ask that question anyway.At least you can rest easy knowing that because you&#039;ve done your job well, anything they screw up will be screwed up throughout the house! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />P.S. This is why I try and never give a BE a separate line for fills.P.P.S. Were his pretty traces on Smaart correct? You were measuring, right? What do you mean by &quot;needs a little refinement&quot;?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bennett Prescott, post: 41625, member: 4"] Re: Crossover vs EQ: Help me understand. John, Just repeat "serenity now, serenity now!". My frustration with how some BEs treat a PA I feel I've really done a good job on led to me create this video, I'm sure the humor will hit home with you: [media=youtube]PD0xOSv7cQM[/media] At the end of the day, the BE is the creative one and you and I are the scientific ones, but all the audience cares about is whether it sounded good. If the BE feels that they have done themselves a service by dumping sliders on the EQ, they're the boss... Admit it, it didn't really sound bad, it just annoyed you because it wasn't "right". Even the +/- 15dB available on a graphic EQ can't fuck up your sub/top alignment that badly, and if they really want those frequencies gone... well, maybe you weren't using a steep enough XO. Maybe they didn't like your answer to their crossover question. Frankly, I [I]always[/I] answer "80Hz". That makes most people happy, and the folks who "get it" aren't going to ask that question anyway. At least you can rest easy knowing that because you've done your job well, anything they screw up will be screwed up throughout the house! :D P.S. This is why I try and never give a BE a separate line for fills. P.P.S. Were his pretty traces on Smaart correct? You were measuring, right? What do you mean by "needs a little refinement"? [/QUOTE]

Verification