[QUOTE]Originally posted by Scott Langholff:
Pose

Just curious are you certain it was the control box that went bad and that it was caused by having the control box on the sub.[/QUOTE

Scott L: Not positive, but the three amps in the sub box seems to be amplifying to each speaker, so assume its the control. Gets the sound of surf and can be vol upped or down. It seem to be not getting any Imput into the controller, and won't amplify anything thats plugged into it???

Nice reading on this thread guys, Very interesting to hear pro's and con's on speakers, etc. I'm not all that good on amps and Pa's but have fooled with them all my life. Being mainly a guitarist I've learned a couple of things, 15" speakers are not the best choice, I tried for years to use them, because everone else was, and claimed bigger is better. I found a 10" speaker gives much more clarity, and can be driven to the point of drowneding out a 15 and still sound good, I've also noticed it seems to be the perfect size for other things also. I guess if you really build up a system you can put a lot of sizes into it and really get some nice sound, but for standing on the stage with a guitar amp behind you with 2 tens in it, its hard to beat.

Midrange sounds dead! I had the same problem initially with the Z5500 did'nt come together until the speakers were at ear level and a little to the front in the studio and behind playing out and a few feet left and right of the keyboard, the center speaker really needs to be about the same hight and behind the keyboard. I hear the midrange from the center speaker. Out front sounds great, but I have to adjust the keyboard eq to get the nicest balance. I listen for the mid to come in.

I found what works for me is to set the master eq by using grand piano and striking two harmonizing notes in the middle of the board as a piano tuner beating one note to the other, I set the eq to get the best piano sound possible, (checking low end and high end) and find after this is done everything else just seems to fall in place. The factory sounds seems to be set in accord to this. Then I set the vocal eq. my voice is barritone, and probably barritone is the hardest to get clarity, for me cranking low and mid (both settings) controls to max gets close to it. For a while I would set the vocal up and forget to reset when I had screwed around with the master eq. You know getting old etc.

Thought some may find my methods amusing

Regards.....Pose

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[This message has been edited by loungelyzard (edited 05-05-2005).]