Actually, I have a bit of Jank news. Had a breakthrough, I think, with my line-out-of-a-microhead- into-a-power-amp- into-two-mismatched-cabs Jankenstein (TM) rig.
I tried many different ways of routing the signal. I think that last night, biamping won!
It sounded great. I ran the highs (cutoff is 100Hz I think) to the Avatar 210 and the lows to the Acoustic 115). But for the record I did not split it that way because I think that the bigger speaker produces deeper lows. I did it because I am less worried about blowing the Acoustic. I was gonna try it both ways but it sounded so good like that, plus, like I said, I luv the Avatar more. And the Acoustic seems to be holding up like a champ. I've got all the knobs on the MB200 at noon and both channels of the QSC dimed. It's the bottom-of-the-line QSC, I think - the GX3. One reason I picked it was that it wouldn't be so easy to blow out either cab with it. (Main reason was that it was cheep. Jank!)
There is probably no scientific reason why this sounded so much better than running both cabs full range, but it did. With the highs up top they seemed to cut through really well, and the lows on the bottom seemed like an awesom fog of doom.
Doing it all even more wrongly, I turned that top cab 90 degrees to blast the drummer, and left the bottom cab facing me. For once he had no problem hearing me. (I do worry about his ears.) And I heard myself fine. I liked how the cabs were mixed, even with both just full-on dimed.
I loved it; my drummer (and only bandmate) loved it. I think the rehearsal setup is done. For now
--Bomb
I tried many different ways of routing the signal. I think that last night, biamping won!
It sounded great. I ran the highs (cutoff is 100Hz I think) to the Avatar 210 and the lows to the Acoustic 115). But for the record I did not split it that way because I think that the bigger speaker produces deeper lows. I did it because I am less worried about blowing the Acoustic. I was gonna try it both ways but it sounded so good like that, plus, like I said, I luv the Avatar more. And the Acoustic seems to be holding up like a champ. I've got all the knobs on the MB200 at noon and both channels of the QSC dimed. It's the bottom-of-the-line QSC, I think - the GX3. One reason I picked it was that it wouldn't be so easy to blow out either cab with it. (Main reason was that it was cheep. Jank!)
There is probably no scientific reason why this sounded so much better than running both cabs full range, but it did. With the highs up top they seemed to cut through really well, and the lows on the bottom seemed like an awesom fog of doom.
Doing it all even more wrongly, I turned that top cab 90 degrees to blast the drummer, and left the bottom cab facing me. For once he had no problem hearing me. (I do worry about his ears.) And I heard myself fine. I liked how the cabs were mixed, even with both just full-on dimed.
I loved it; my drummer (and only bandmate) loved it. I think the rehearsal setup is done. For now
--Bomb
