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<blockquote data-quote="Phil Graham" data-source="post: 32836" data-attributes="member: 430"><p>Re: Processing and voicing</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Daniel,</p><p></p><p>Since no one has taken the opportunity to reply to your fairly detailed post, I thought I would give it shot.</p><p></p><p>The point of replacing four or more standard dual 18s is something that should be highlighted in your body copy. For your customers who consistently produce shows consistently using this minimum quantity of LF, that is a strong selling point. Why not simply rewrite all of the copy to focus on saving weight and truck space relative to four dual 18 boxes?</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>Daniel, why promote such simple, naive processing for a box that clearly has a response anomaly at 65Hz and would also benefit from some out of band eq. The customers purchasing this class of product are going to have enough dsp available to make both the in-band and out of band corrections.</p><p></p><p>System tuning and system tuning tuneups are some of my most frequent audio gigs. Many pro sound manufacturers suggest overly simple processing for their LF subsystems. That's good news for me, because I can often make substantial improvements to the LF subsystem behavior and tonality. This is good for impressing my clients.</p><p></p><p>However, overly simple processing is not good for inspiring my confidence that the aforementioned manufacturers have an idea how to voice and process the remainder of their product lines. While I'm not suggesting adding fancy processing for the sake of processing, if it is necessary for reasonable response call it a spade and have customer's apply it.</p><p></p><p>In my personal case, McCauley's decision to leave a <em>6dB+ response anomaly right in the middle of the passband</em> for this particular low frequency speaker virtually guarantees that I won't consider the remainder of the McCauley product line for other projects. I realize other potential customers probably won't feel as strongly as I do, but I feel that there are already enough quality products on the market with reasonable processing for obvious flaws. For new products to be added to my personal list, they should also be accompanied with reasonable processing.</p><p></p><p>Probably more than $0.02</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Phil Graham, post: 32836, member: 430"] Re: Processing and voicing Daniel, Since no one has taken the opportunity to reply to your fairly detailed post, I thought I would give it shot. The point of replacing four or more standard dual 18s is something that should be highlighted in your body copy. For your customers who consistently produce shows consistently using this minimum quantity of LF, that is a strong selling point. Why not simply rewrite all of the copy to focus on saving weight and truck space relative to four dual 18 boxes? Daniel, why promote such simple, naive processing for a box that clearly has a response anomaly at 65Hz and would also benefit from some out of band eq. The customers purchasing this class of product are going to have enough dsp available to make both the in-band and out of band corrections. System tuning and system tuning tuneups are some of my most frequent audio gigs. Many pro sound manufacturers suggest overly simple processing for their LF subsystems. That's good news for me, because I can often make substantial improvements to the LF subsystem behavior and tonality. This is good for impressing my clients. However, overly simple processing is not good for inspiring my confidence that the aforementioned manufacturers have an idea how to voice and process the remainder of their product lines. While I'm not suggesting adding fancy processing for the sake of processing, if it is necessary for reasonable response call it a spade and have customer's apply it. In my personal case, McCauley's decision to leave a [I]6dB+ response anomaly right in the middle of the passband[/I] for this particular low frequency speaker virtually guarantees that I won't consider the remainder of the McCauley product line for other projects. I realize other potential customers probably won't feel as strongly as I do, but I feel that there are already enough quality products on the market with reasonable processing for obvious flaws. For new products to be added to my personal list, they should also be accompanied with reasonable processing. Probably more than $0.02 [/QUOTE]
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