Originally posted by Uncle Dave:
Sunny,
The absolute cheapest way to beef up the volume and quality is to add a self-powered bass amp to your rig.
Here's how you cut he corners of buying a dedicated crossover:
1) Use your main mixer/amp to power your speakers, as usual...only use the EQ to roll off the low end from about 250Hz and lower.
2) Use the monitor send to feed a signal into the bass amp where the HIGHs are rolled off above 250Hz.
This will essentially give you separate control of what goes to the tops and what goes to the bottom. It works like a charm too.
3) adjust each channel so that you get the amount of bass you desire with the monitor send on the individual channel. Voila !
Psuedo-bi-ampd!
It's so close to perfect, I'm surprised that not more people do this.
Hi Uncle Dave,
I had thought of this idea before. But the problem here is that the Mixer I have (Studiomaster Powerpack 400 DSP) does not support separate control of the bass amp and the existing mixer. If I control the bass from my existing mixer it regulates bass on both my existing speakers and the bass bin. My sound guy suggested that we construct a special Bass Bin with a crossover that totally eliminates all other frequencies emanating from the bass bin and only allowing Lows, but again this, he says, will be expensive. What are your comments?
Thanx
Sunny
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