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Subject: Re: The P.A. and some recent problems...

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Date Posted: 19:34:27 29/02/04 Sunday
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In reply to: The Major 's message, "The P.A. and some recent problems..." on 15:53:52 29/02/04 Sunday

OOPS! how long has this problem been apparent with the x-over? since day 1? sounds a super duper 1 to do compression etc, i run my rig 3 way active but only with a behringer thing that 'does the job' lol

>Several people have mentioned slight problems with the
>P.A. recently and I'd like to clear this up.
>
>Fundamentally, the new P.A. is better, more
>controlled, more robust, clearer and louder than the
>old P.A.
>
>We have had a couple of weird problems that surfaced
>however which have affected its performance.
>
>1. People stacking equipment in front of the amps,
>which means they can't ventilate properly; this means
>that they reduce their output to try to cool down and
>the sound is altered. This is a minor problem
>compared to the next one...
>
>2. We had been experiencing several strange phenomena
>with the P.A. which were almost impossible to figure
>out as they changed from time to time and didn't seem
>to add up. This has now been traced to a fault in the
>crossover which will hopefully be remedied this week.
>
>For those not familiar with what a crossover does, put
>simply, it splits the sound into 'bands' which are
>then sent to different amps. (bass, middle, treble
>etc...) Our crossover also controls the EQ,
>compression and limiters over the whole system.
>Either a hardware or software fault caused this system
>to become corrupt and continue to knacker itself over
>time.
>
>
>Normal service will be resumed soon! :-)

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Re: The P.A. and some recent problems...	The Major	23:27:06 29/02/04 Sunday