sub intensity

[60ndown 10+ year member]

2 other things,

1. if your fronts are playing down to 60hz (or close) then there may be some overlapping of frequencies (not good)

2.try reverseing the 'phase' of your sub?

 

[kuijo 10+ year member]

if your sub is xed over @ 63 hz there shouldnt be any output above about 70??

The crossover is at a 12db slope, he'll be hearing bass well into the 100hz range.

 

[kuijo 10+ year member]

Say it ain't so has some good bass. DOes it sound thin to you?

 

[60ndown 10+ year member]

The crossover is at a 12db slope, he'll be hearing bass well into the 100hz range.

ok, well maybe he could xover @ 50 and the problem 100hz area might improve?

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

nah, steeper slope. try 18dB.

 

[kuijo 10+ year member]

ok, well maybe he could xover @ 50 and the problem 100hz area might improve?

I would juse use a steeper slope. But i don't think his problem is the subs playing too high. Just listening to music that was recoreded better then others.

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

try setting your gains with -10dB tones.

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[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

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If you set your gains with a 0db tone, reset them with either a -6db or -10db tone.

 

[PepsiFiend69 10+ year member]

i kind of have the same problem, but i have it with CDs that a i burned, this doesnt ahve to to really do with the forum, but when i burn a CD with Itunes, it doesnt sound as good as it does when i burn it with Roxio (the program that came with my computer) Itunes seemed to make some songs have an overwelming amount of bass, to much infact, that it jsut sounded muddy; and other songs it would barely have any bass at all. i could understand if they were songs i had downloaded, but they were jsut songs i ripped off CDs and put together on a mix. so i dont know what this all had to do with anything, but ya know, thought i'd throw in my $.02

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

Pepsifiend, it might be that the settings on your burning application may be set to "normalize" the mp3 recording. I know for a fact Nero has this ability, in response to people ripping MP3's and not always doing it at the same recorded level. So this might be a reason why this is happening to you. If you need some additional MP3 burning software, contact me via PM and lets see if we can get you set up with something that works.

As for the original thread, I thought a bit of why you think that some of the songs you remember had a different kick to it, especially stuff like rock with a higher prominance of midbass. Were these songs, as you remember now, listened to on a ported system? You might have been used to hearing peaky responses, and/or port noise from an improperly designed vented enclsoure. When you went to a sealed enviroment / listening situation with a sealed enclosure, you have more of a steady roll off naturally throughout the lower fequency range so all the levels are a bit more flat - hence why it may sound dead to you on some songs.

 

[bikejunkie223 10+ year member]

I'm going to try and reset my gains. All of the systems I have had in the past have always been sealed with anything from a pair of Solobaric 8's(round ones) to 10's and 12's. I have never even tried a ported enclosure other than a badly configured bandpass box 10 years ago that sounded so bad it was rebuilt into a sealed box. I think I have a combination of things going on. I think recording quality makes a bigger difference now because the system is much higher fidelity than anything I have ever had before. Also, I think underpowering the woofer is an issue- 75wrms per for my comps is great, but given that my sub could live all day on 1000w, 250 likely isn't really enough- but given the output of the entire system easily exceeds any volume that I can handle it's difficult to condemn the amp. I really think I am used to a more bass heavy/peaky subwoofer- and that I now have an SQ system in which the sub is basically transparent. Hope that makes sense, I appreciate all the replies and suggestions- I'll try resetting my gains and get back to you guys.

 

[Pyro_By_Nature 5,000+ posts]

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[bikejunkie223 10+ year member]

I tried the phase thing, and it helped blend the sub in with the midbass, but seems to sacrifice low extention even more. Got to go set the gains tomorrow

 

[volonau 10+ year member]

xover slope problem

 

[bikejunkie223 10+ year member]

^ how do you figure? The mids and sub are crossed at the same freq and slope (63hz) and the nearby freq. were attenuated on the eq to account for it, it's the slam that's missing, not the sq. I'd appreciate your opinion.