Hi all,
Maybe some of you are already doing this, but here's a little trick I came up with recently and I really like the results. First off, after much testing with different speaker and routing arrangements I've become a firm believer that the entire signal, not just pedal notes or other certain ranks should go to my subs, in my honest opinion the sub(s) should receive everything from the top on down, we can start a separate debate on this if needed but..... read on.
I've been experimenting with sending certain ranks, mainly the 16' and lower pedal ranks to my 15" sub and other 16' and 8' ranks such as from the manuals to my second 10" sub. The results were with OK, but the lower end portion of the sound seemed to have a few holes in it in some areas and just too much output and boom in others. Just for reference I have each sub placed in opposite corners of the room behind me. What I was not liking in addition to these so called holes and boom in the sound was the fact that the 15" sub no matter what was always kind of stealing the show and I could hear it more so than my smaller 10" sub and this created a situation where a majority of the lows were coming more from one corner of the room.
Revelation: My sound card has an S/PDIF output which is channels 9/10, so I got the idea to set up 9/10 as mix down receiving everything from channels 1 through 8 and to connect both subs to 9/10 so they are now receiving not only the entire signal, they are receiving exactly the same signal as well. I connected the RCA cable from 9/10 to the inputs of the 15" sub and then went from it's outputs to the inputs of the 10" sub.
To do this it will require you pick up an inexpensive digital to analog converter such as one of these >> https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=6884
Results? Much, smoother and even bass / low end response across the board than I've ever had before, no boom on the sets I've tried it on so far, no more bass focus from one corner of the room, and I now have full independent control of the subs only without disrupting the output of any other speaker in the chain. Plus, it is now much easier to adjust the input to the subs individually which I can do either directly from HW or from my sound card control panel, and it sure beats having to get up and play around with the volume controls on the subs themselves.
For you multi channel folks, I'd highly recommend giving this a try and see what you think.
Marc
Maybe some of you are already doing this, but here's a little trick I came up with recently and I really like the results. First off, after much testing with different speaker and routing arrangements I've become a firm believer that the entire signal, not just pedal notes or other certain ranks should go to my subs, in my honest opinion the sub(s) should receive everything from the top on down, we can start a separate debate on this if needed but..... read on.
I've been experimenting with sending certain ranks, mainly the 16' and lower pedal ranks to my 15" sub and other 16' and 8' ranks such as from the manuals to my second 10" sub. The results were with OK, but the lower end portion of the sound seemed to have a few holes in it in some areas and just too much output and boom in others. Just for reference I have each sub placed in opposite corners of the room behind me. What I was not liking in addition to these so called holes and boom in the sound was the fact that the 15" sub no matter what was always kind of stealing the show and I could hear it more so than my smaller 10" sub and this created a situation where a majority of the lows were coming more from one corner of the room.
Revelation: My sound card has an S/PDIF output which is channels 9/10, so I got the idea to set up 9/10 as mix down receiving everything from channels 1 through 8 and to connect both subs to 9/10 so they are now receiving not only the entire signal, they are receiving exactly the same signal as well. I connected the RCA cable from 9/10 to the inputs of the 15" sub and then went from it's outputs to the inputs of the 10" sub.
To do this it will require you pick up an inexpensive digital to analog converter such as one of these >> https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=6884
Results? Much, smoother and even bass / low end response across the board than I've ever had before, no boom on the sets I've tried it on so far, no more bass focus from one corner of the room, and I now have full independent control of the subs only without disrupting the output of any other speaker in the chain. Plus, it is now much easier to adjust the input to the subs individually which I can do either directly from HW or from my sound card control panel, and it sure beats having to get up and play around with the volume controls on the subs themselves.
For you multi channel folks, I'd highly recommend giving this a try and see what you think.
Marc
Last edited by 1961TC4ME on Tue Apr 18, 2017 10:52 pm, edited 3 times in total.