Hi Marv!
 MH>> You know, though, i did a job a couple of weeks ago for Asleep
 MH> at
 MH>> The Wheel, in a venue that ended up with just that damnable
 MH> smily
 MH>> face. Checked, and rechecked it with my RTA, went and got
 BG> Well, first thing it suggests to me is that the sound system had very
 BG> weak bass response and this was the only way to coax it up
 BG> sufficiently, and that the highs were similarly weak or "lobey"
like
 BG> laser beams coming directly on axis and nothing slightly off axis.
 MH> Well, with 12 dual 18 subs (at their request as opposed to the usual
 MH> mix of 6 dual 18'a and 6 dual 15 folded's) there was not a weakness of
 MH> bass response, and running our normal aray of high end stuff that was
 MH> also not the problem. Just one of those obnoxious rooms that you hit
 MH> now and then.
 MH> End result was a great sound that just happen to have that good ole
 MH> smily in it. Just goes to show ya that absolutely NOTHING is etched in
 MH> stone when it comes to sound and different rooms..
 MH> Always do my initial setup by ear before grabbing the RTA just to see
 MH> how close the ear is, and see if I have lost it yet. Really had me
 MH> wondering if I had totally lost my ear for a bit.. :-).. Marv Hubbard
 That is very strange., and unusal for a room to absorb like that. I assume 
that your mains were adaquately powered and being fed appropriate line levels 
and such,,  that you were actually hitting the room with that much more dB to 
get a certain SPL. Sometimes it's nice to monitor both the line level and the 
SPL from the house to make comparisons with, Then too, as you said, there are 
THOSE rooms, that no matter what you do and how much you've done this stuff 
over the years, you just can't coax a good sound out of it, period.
Bonnie *:>
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