First time posting in a while but I've been lurking faithfully...
We've got a small rig of 8 x Meyer UPA1c and 6 x USW. It's done us well and the ROI has been good.
However, there have been problems at a couple of recent gigs where the rig has been used for electronic dance music. The highly compressed nature of this seems to "defeat" the limiters on the Meyer controllers. My hunch is that the relatively low crest factor means that there can be very high average power, without the output sounding like mush.
We lost a horn driver at the last gig. The rig had been driven hard, and whilst I hadn't been able to keep a constant eye on it, the times I was around nobody seemed to be doing anything outrageously stupid with it.
What I'm thinking about is setting up some sort of limiter to guard against damage at these sorts of gigs. I happen to have a couple of BSS Soundwebs kicking around, and their architecture allows for multiple limiters and compressors in line, so I could possibly have limiters with slow and fast attack to guard against short and long term overloads. I think I'd put a Soundweb in its own case and only use it as an extra safety measure at electronic gigs, the rest of the time the boxes are doing conferences or bands gigs and we haven't had any issues there.
The challenge, of course, is getting this working without making it sound like crap. Open to advice on how best to achieve this...
We've got a small rig of 8 x Meyer UPA1c and 6 x USW. It's done us well and the ROI has been good.
However, there have been problems at a couple of recent gigs where the rig has been used for electronic dance music. The highly compressed nature of this seems to "defeat" the limiters on the Meyer controllers. My hunch is that the relatively low crest factor means that there can be very high average power, without the output sounding like mush.
We lost a horn driver at the last gig. The rig had been driven hard, and whilst I hadn't been able to keep a constant eye on it, the times I was around nobody seemed to be doing anything outrageously stupid with it.
What I'm thinking about is setting up some sort of limiter to guard against damage at these sorts of gigs. I happen to have a couple of BSS Soundwebs kicking around, and their architecture allows for multiple limiters and compressors in line, so I could possibly have limiters with slow and fast attack to guard against short and long term overloads. I think I'd put a Soundweb in its own case and only use it as an extra safety measure at electronic gigs, the rest of the time the boxes are doing conferences or bands gigs and we haven't had any issues there.
The challenge, of course, is getting this working without making it sound like crap. Open to advice on how best to achieve this...
~;-)~:wink: ).