I'm building a small multichannel system in our little church and earlier in the week took delivery of 4-No. pairs of Behringer B2031a. I currently have them set up on the floor in the choir, just to verify that everything is working before getting a scaffold put up, probably this Tuesday, to place them on a high shelf, about 6m above the floor in the main body of the church.
As they sit now, on the floor, the sound is greatly improved by applying 4dB of room correction bass reduction (via the little switch on the back of the speaker) to keep the boominess in check. My dilemma then is to decide whether to leave this attenuation applied, or return to default settings when placing the speakers in their intended final destination (bear in mind that they will be very difficult to access subsequently and I don't anticipate being near them again for a very long time...).
If I return the switches to the default settings, can I be confident that the same end result can be achieved by using HW's voicing controls alone ? How are everyone else's speakers set ?
Incidentally, this is the first time I've heard a multi-channel setup and I'm really inspired and excited as to what will be possible - with just this very raw setup as it is now, I can already hear (and feel) the organ starting to breathe, in a way that I didn't previously (using just a stereo pair of 3031a's). I'm running Caen (dry), currently in 4x stereo pairs, but I'll probably have a lash a a full mono setup and see how that sounds. Also keen to see what I can do with Billerbeck semi-dry.... in experiments thus far, this organ's native acoustic seems to 'couple' with our own building's acoustic, creating a rather unpleasant bloom (even when the reverb tails are fully trimmed), but maybe careful voicing will be able to overcome this. Has anyone tried this sampleset in a church installation ?
All comments welcome !
Glenn.
As they sit now, on the floor, the sound is greatly improved by applying 4dB of room correction bass reduction (via the little switch on the back of the speaker) to keep the boominess in check. My dilemma then is to decide whether to leave this attenuation applied, or return to default settings when placing the speakers in their intended final destination (bear in mind that they will be very difficult to access subsequently and I don't anticipate being near them again for a very long time...).
If I return the switches to the default settings, can I be confident that the same end result can be achieved by using HW's voicing controls alone ? How are everyone else's speakers set ?
Incidentally, this is the first time I've heard a multi-channel setup and I'm really inspired and excited as to what will be possible - with just this very raw setup as it is now, I can already hear (and feel) the organ starting to breathe, in a way that I didn't previously (using just a stereo pair of 3031a's). I'm running Caen (dry), currently in 4x stereo pairs, but I'll probably have a lash a a full mono setup and see how that sounds. Also keen to see what I can do with Billerbeck semi-dry.... in experiments thus far, this organ's native acoustic seems to 'couple' with our own building's acoustic, creating a rather unpleasant bloom (even when the reverb tails are fully trimmed), but maybe careful voicing will be able to overcome this. Has anyone tried this sampleset in a church installation ?
All comments welcome !
Glenn.