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What do you do with your Tweeter?
- Thread starter jtc_hunter
- Start date
I have Avatars and I didn't just turn them off. I pulled
out the wiring and crossover and resoldered the cab
wiring.
I like high end in my tone but I just hate the sound of
these tweeters. I have 28 bands of EQ so I get the
speakers to do the high end.
I run true bi-amp so there's not much risk of intermodulation
distortion when cranked.
I don't run tweeters or have anything near a vintage tone.
out the wiring and crossover and resoldered the cab
wiring.
I like high end in my tone but I just hate the sound of
these tweeters. I have 28 bands of EQ so I get the
speakers to do the high end.
I run true bi-amp so there's not much risk of intermodulation
distortion when cranked.
I don't run tweeters or have anything near a vintage tone.
Greetings from the North,
I don't poppity-pop anymore and was never into 'glassy highs' so it stays turned down. I don't hate them, they just serve no purpose for what I play. Only one of my cabs has one and I will not be purchasing another tweeter loaded cab.
Rezdog
I don't poppity-pop anymore and was never into 'glassy highs' so it stays turned down. I don't hate them, they just serve no purpose for what I play. Only one of my cabs has one and I will not be purchasing another tweeter loaded cab.
Rezdog
Most of those who respond on these zillions of similar threads asking about tweeters are 'tweeter haters' (due to either tone goals not requiring a tweeter, or having only played cheap tweeter/crossover cabs and/or not understanding that the noon setting of a tweeter is neither 'flat' nor typically the optimal setting for a balanced extension past the top end of the driver).
No surprise here. A well designed tweeter is a tool like any other that can work wonderfully for certain contexts, and not at all for others. Also, just like woofers/drivers, there are great tweeter executions and bad ones.
On around 25% for me... I've found that if I'm absolutely not going to use it, tweeter loaded cabs sound better with one tweeter lead disconnected than with the L-pad turned all the way down - besides not risking burning up the L-pad from running it all the way down...
- georgestrings
- georgestrings
Absolutely.
A had great horns on my Aguilar 210s, and my coax Bag End has a pretty musical horn as well.
You guys with the Avatar cabs, I can't blame you for killing the tweeter. The Avatar I had was ear-piercing with the horn past 7 o'clock.
So running the pad at zero will be harmfull to the cab? This i did not know.
A couple of thoughts:
- If you have a tweeter in your cabinet, you turn it off, and you like the way that sounds - rock on. Academically though, I'll point out that when you do that, you are totally eliminating the sound frequencies intended for your tweeter from the output (ignoring the crossover slope). A cabinet with no tweeter installed, on the other hand, sends all of the sound out of the cones - or at least as much as they are capable of reproducing. So you would get a more vintage "full range" tone using that approach.
- If you are playing a gig with an FOH system, that system has tweeters. If you are using a DI to send your signal to the FOH, your bass will be amplified full-range through the FOH and will sound very different to the audience than it sounds to you and the band. This seems counterproductive to me, so I suggest either miking the cabinet instead of a DI (if the soundman will tolerate that) or using your pre-DI EQ to remove highs instead of adjusting the tweeter attenuator on your cabinet.
