Drummers and rear ported cabs

[ddnidd1]

Originally Posted by BogeyBass

No...but the foundation for any band is the drums and bass, and if the drummer cant hear you than most the others probably cant.

depends on how many players/ vocals you have.

if its a simple band with one guitar vocal then yah turn the heck up
if vocals and others start to complain then yah duh turn down.

drums are usually the only acoustic instument or the only one without pa or amplifier on stage so the whole dam mix is set so everything can be heard over the drums.

so in this case if you have a really loud drummer then duh...yah turn up your bass.

or if your using a tiny little cab, not a very aggressive player
you need to place the cabinet closer or higher up so the drummer can hear you.

and yes again if he cant hear you... turn up

usually the only people who complain about to much bass is vocals...and if they don't complain then turn up so the drummer does not.
or if your a cry baby and dont like loud drums, then find a new drummer. good drummers are hard to find sounds like this is a good one so make him happy. Some people just get scared or not use to loud bass because it starts to shake the room and blooms a bit.

maybe he just needs to get use to playing bass and adjusting his playing style to louder levels.

A pretty Sophisticated approach to achieving a professional band mix. You've obviously been around. Impressive.

[fjadams]

Really, he's a drummer. If the port doesn't come in a bottle I doubt he'd know what you were talking about.

[Arjank]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

Nope. Port location is 100% immaterial since the lows that come out of it are not directional.

The lows that come out are indeed non-directional, but (you allready thought there would be a "but" ) there are cases in which there is a descend amount of mid-frequencies comin' out of that tube/port. Mostly because of bad design or sometimes intentional to color the sound.
The following culprits come to mind:

-numero uno, no lining in the cabinet(in combination with a full-range driven woofer)

-2nd, bad choosen ratio of the port lenght/diameter/internal cab volume, this can cause a 1/4 standing wave inside the port that can be pretty audible(system starts to act like a transmissionline)

-3rd, port location(back/front excluded), if you have a high/long cabinet and the port is on the bottom or top, the standing wave that will occur inside the cabinet(will in most cases not happen in a 3-way system) will be pretty audible through the port. Solution is to place the port in the middle of the cab and in addition use an internal helmholz-absorber to (partially) eliminate the standing wave.

So for the OP, you should check per cabinet if there is anything more then only bass comin' out of that port.