For anyone who might be interested, I’m sharing my current audio setup for those who like to follow such things.
My interface is a RME 802 and I now have ten Behringer 2031a’s that I am using in the following way:
I have 8 of them set up as stereo pairs and 2 of them connected to my DefTech SuperCube II sub.
The Sub channel is run off of one the earphone jacks on the RME (it sets within a couple of feet of the RME and the un-shielded cable run does not to seem to effect it).
On theory that IM is the worst enemy of amplified organ sound, I have routed all Pedal stops, the bottom 2 octaves of all manual 16's and the bottom octave of all manual 8's to my Sub channel.
16' and 8' stops are going to be putting harmonics (especially the third sounding ones) into the tenor and middle octave of the keyboard range anytime you are playing in the bottom octave of the pedal board and putting them into the middle and upper octaves when playing above the bottom octave.
I send all the stops of an organ to all channels to get the most separation of notes in a scale. I have used various cycling methods with this setup, and found all of them sound much cleaner with the pedal ranks removed and lower octaves of the manual stops removed. Although the lower octave of the manuals is not played that much compared to the middle of the keyboard, they do get played if manual to pedal couplers are used. I especially like the sound sound of Tone Matching Mode I (the one that separates all the thirds). It provides an extremely clean sound much freeer of IM, although it does send every pitch note of the same name to the same pair.
I have yet to separate the organs by division to separate pairs that I know some people say sounds very nice as well. The next time I have free time to set up another routing scheme I will set one of my Alternate loadings to that setup and see what I think.
John
My interface is a RME 802 and I now have ten Behringer 2031a’s that I am using in the following way:
I have 8 of them set up as stereo pairs and 2 of them connected to my DefTech SuperCube II sub.
The Sub channel is run off of one the earphone jacks on the RME (it sets within a couple of feet of the RME and the un-shielded cable run does not to seem to effect it).
On theory that IM is the worst enemy of amplified organ sound, I have routed all Pedal stops, the bottom 2 octaves of all manual 16's and the bottom octave of all manual 8's to my Sub channel.
16' and 8' stops are going to be putting harmonics (especially the third sounding ones) into the tenor and middle octave of the keyboard range anytime you are playing in the bottom octave of the pedal board and putting them into the middle and upper octaves when playing above the bottom octave.
I send all the stops of an organ to all channels to get the most separation of notes in a scale. I have used various cycling methods with this setup, and found all of them sound much cleaner with the pedal ranks removed and lower octaves of the manual stops removed. Although the lower octave of the manuals is not played that much compared to the middle of the keyboard, they do get played if manual to pedal couplers are used. I especially like the sound sound of Tone Matching Mode I (the one that separates all the thirds). It provides an extremely clean sound much freeer of IM, although it does send every pitch note of the same name to the same pair.
I have yet to separate the organs by division to separate pairs that I know some people say sounds very nice as well. The next time I have free time to set up another routing scheme I will set one of my Alternate loadings to that setup and see what I think.
John