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Which limiters are good enough?
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<blockquote data-quote="Eric Cagle" data-source="post: 50497" data-attributes="member: 277"><p>Re: Which limiters are good enough?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Read this several times and then read it again. The bottom line is bring enough racks and stacks to do the job PERIOD. "Enough" is more than you need to do the job. Anything less is not "enough." If you are pushing the system you did not bring "enough." A limiter is for an "oops." It is not there so you can get your average level louder if you want your system to live a long and productive life. I went 10 years with a company as the chief engineer without 1 blown driver ever, and this was before the days of digital processing. I always brought 1.5 times the power that was specd and never saw the FOH meters hit the top ever, not even an occasional blink. I caught some flack from the owner in the beginning because of the extra labor involved but he soon figured out that not replacing even 1 JBL driver more than made up for any additional labor and truck space. We never even reconed a single driver for maintenance during that 10 years and we were out with alot of very loud Southern Rock bands. The other little tidbit for not blowing up speakers is use EQ as a cut only device as a general rule but that is for another thread.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eric Cagle, post: 50497, member: 277"] Re: Which limiters are good enough? Read this several times and then read it again. The bottom line is bring enough racks and stacks to do the job PERIOD. "Enough" is more than you need to do the job. Anything less is not "enough." If you are pushing the system you did not bring "enough." A limiter is for an "oops." It is not there so you can get your average level louder if you want your system to live a long and productive life. I went 10 years with a company as the chief engineer without 1 blown driver ever, and this was before the days of digital processing. I always brought 1.5 times the power that was specd and never saw the FOH meters hit the top ever, not even an occasional blink. I caught some flack from the owner in the beginning because of the extra labor involved but he soon figured out that not replacing even 1 JBL driver more than made up for any additional labor and truck space. We never even reconed a single driver for maintenance during that 10 years and we were out with alot of very loud Southern Rock bands. The other little tidbit for not blowing up speakers is use EQ as a cut only device as a general rule but that is for another thread. [/QUOTE]
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