Recent content by Scott Harris

Just got email from Jim Weisz saying the majority of the people involved in PrimeCuts are sticking together and creating a new company named Hits Now Music and they will be jumping into the market in January after PrimeCuts closes down. Hits Now Music - (https://www.hitsnowmusic.com)

Can we please stop the nonsense about horn loaded subs "throw" and not having bass until x feet away? I thought that fallacy was put to bed years ago. That is pure fiction. The fact is horn loaded subs comply with the same physical laws as any other speaker or object producing sound and they...

It has been mentioned before and I will throw it out here again. Do NOT use so called regulators or UPS units inline with amplifiers! They are for electronics and mixers. Amps power supplies need all the power than can get, regulator restrict that and actually hurt the performance of...

I call BS on any ratings that show an 8" woofer in a pole mounted PA speaker providing 100hz anywhere near flat response with the rest of the speaker. Most 12's can't even do that! Look VERY closely at vendor specs, many are plus & minus, many are using smoothing and almost all are using half...

I find that dropping down smaller than a 12" main requires bumping up the crossover point to 150hz or higher which gets into the directional portion of sound. This means male vocals, low guitar notes, bass notes, etc. will move between the mains & subs. This might not be very noticeable if you...

When I stack on top of my subs I used 6.3 ms of delay on the tops to compensate for the 6 feet of horn used in the Growler design. Without the ability to align this there is cancellation at the crossover region sucking the whoomp right out of the sound. HUGE difference!

All DSP circuits create a delay. Using all DSP amps allows you to align everything to the slowest amp. Running one amp with DSP and another without DSP (and no inherent delay) means your signal is mis-aligned unless the delayed speakers are compensating for a driver alignment. Otherwise you...

Is this Jeopardy? What do you get when you give a team of engineers a huge pile of overstocked car speakers? :laugh:

That works great in a situation where the operator is well aware of the danger of overpowering, understands gain, has it set properly, is extremely attentive with system levels and has all of their music set with mp3gain. However, a typical DJ does not hit all of these points and playing dub...

They are decent speakers, they honk a little and need some EQ but can sound very good. Beware of the advice to power them with a plx3602 which could be damaging in a DJ rig if pushed hard. They are only rated for 250 watts continuous matching them a 500 watt amp such as a rmx2450, plx2502 or...

and this is why there are so few people here anymore..... :urgh:

They ask how much because apparently unlike the US government, they have a budget and can't go over it. :-/

Just to clear up what Canute said, you can't damage speakers by underpowering them. You can damage speakers by running an underpowered amp into clipping. Your current system will sound MUCH better if you add a subwoofer and proper crossover which will remove the burden of the low bass from...

I don't do much karaoke, but I find that people like books. Even without alcohol peoples brains don't seem to be wired to think of songs they want to sing. Seeing an artist or song name usually triggers a yes or no response to the "can I do that?" question. Of course there are people that...

I had never used the cloud payer but when I ran it I found that automatically populated it with all of the mp3's that I had purchased over the last few years into my free account. Interesting, but not useful to me at this time. I completely agree with Brendan. Other than karaoke, almost...