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By Request: How to bypass the Peavey 410TX crossover

#22
DWBass said:
Just curious...........why not just turn the tweeter off?
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What the issue is, it's not the tweeter but the crossover also affects the woofers too. There is an inductor that scoops out the mids of the woofers that if bi-passed is said to return the missing midrange. Some other cabinet makers Eden, Aguilar did this for a time as well. Creating the "Bedroom" sound that sounds good at home but not so good on the gig sometimes.
 
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DJ Bebop said:
What the issue is, it's not the tweeter but the crossover also affects the woofers too. There is an inductor that scoops out the mids of the woofers that if bi-passed is said to return the missing midrange. Some other cabinet makers Eden, Aguilar did this for a time as well. Creating the "Bedroom" sound that sounds good at home but not so good on the gig sometimes.
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@agedhorse can you please chime in?
 
#26
DJ Bebop said:
For the tweeter. I don't recall the midrange value that is scooping the the woofers
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The peavey uses a real crossover, reducing highs to the woofers as well as blocking lows from the tweeter. Many cheap boxes used to only use a cap to block the highs to the tweeter instead of a real crossover that limits the frequencies that each speaker sees. Where the crossover takes place is determined by the characteristics of the speakers themselves.

Here is an easy to understand webpage on it.
 
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lug said:
The peavey uses a real crossover, reducing highs to the woofers as well as blocking lows from the tweeter. Many cheap boxes used to only use a cap to block the highs to the tweeter instead of a real crossover that limits the frequencies that each speaker sees. Where the crossover takes place is determined by the characteristics of the speakers themselves.

Here is an easy to understand webpage on it.
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Yes that’s it
 
#29
Redbrangus said:
I hope, now that time has passed, that you've dissuaded yourself of this concept.

But again, don't do it. Just don't. :rollno:
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yeah, so I cut it in half and it looks great. It took about an hour with a 12” sawsall and finished with a 24” handsaw. I was able to keep my handsaw and sawsall straight enough to cut it right down the center of the internal bracing. The wood used to box it back in was free from a shipping box at my work luckily..

I get your point but these things are like $150 now and too heavy to be practical. It was a 410 I wasn’t using at all since I have other lighter options. Now I've got 2 more ported 2x10s, loud enough for practice and I can leave it in someone else's basement without fear.

I was more wondering about the necessity of the crossover but at this point I plan to run it with a Vox Night Train 15 head wide open for stoner punk practice, so it’ll be fine
 
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