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Re: PA Setup Question

This last bit of low budget wisdom is tricky. FLATTEN the EQ on everything to start with. Bring vocals up to the squeal level and search for the offending slider. Just barely touch that one and leave it. The cheaper powered PAs are barely tolerable to begin with and when you start hacking big slices with the cheap on board EQs they really start to sound bad. In other words - get to the max before feedback and leave it alone.[/FONT][/COLOR]

I don't think that this advice applies to only cheap or small rigs, the amount of hacked eqs etc I see especially in monitor world makes me cringe, if you want your monitor to sound as though it's buried under a blanket then hack away, but see if you turn it down a bit and dial back in most of the eq'd cuts you will probably find it sounds just as loud and you may have some headroom left in the mixer which will allow the mix busses to actually do their job without distorting and the whole thing will work quite happily honest it will. Rant over. G

ps don't start me on huge amounts of channel compression either

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<blockquote data-quote="gordon mcgregor" data-source="post: 56297" data-attributes="member: 169">Re: PA Setup QuestionThis last bit of low budget wisdom is tricky.&nbsp; FLATTEN the EQ on everything to start with.&nbsp; Bring vocals up to the squeal level and search for the offending slider.&nbsp; Just barely touch that one and leave it.&nbsp; The cheaper powered PAs are barely tolerable to begin with and when you start hacking big slices with the cheap on board EQs they really start to sound bad.&nbsp; In other words - get to the max before feedback and leave it alone.[/FONT][/COLOR]</blockquote>I don&#039;t think that this advice applies to only cheap or small rigs, the amount of hacked eqs etc I see especially in monitor world makes me cringe, if you want your monitor to sound as though it&#039;s buried under a blanket then hack away, but see if you turn it down a bit and dial back in most of the eq&#039;d cuts you will probably find it sounds just as loud and you may have some headroom left in the mixer which will allow the mix busses to actually do their job without distorting and the whole thing will work quite happily honest it will.&nbsp; Rant over.&nbsp; Gps don&#039;t start me on huge amounts of channel compression either[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="gordon mcgregor, post: 56297, member: 169"] Re: PA Setup Question This last bit of low budget wisdom is tricky. FLATTEN the EQ on everything to start with. Bring vocals up to the squeal level and search for the offending slider. Just barely touch that one and leave it. The cheaper powered PAs are barely tolerable to begin with and when you start hacking big slices with the cheap on board EQs they really start to sound bad. In other words - get to the max before feedback and leave it alone.[/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE] I don't think that this advice applies to only cheap or small rigs, the amount of hacked eqs etc I see especially in monitor world makes me cringe, if you want your monitor to sound as though it's buried under a blanket then hack away, but see if you turn it down a bit and dial back in most of the eq'd cuts you will probably find it sounds just as loud and you may have some headroom left in the mixer which will allow the mix busses to actually do their job without distorting and the whole thing will work quite happily honest it will. Rant over. G ps don't start me on huge amounts of channel compression either [/QUOTE]

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