bass bin help.

[Excalibur]

Ul115 or ul118 bass bins ideal for your ul15 tops run with a pv2600 amp (this will give you 900w program per side on the bass bins using the built in croosover of the amp then use the thru outs on the amp to the amp that runs the ul15 tops), may take some time to save up for them but worth it. I use the ul115 with my ul15 tops and never had a complaint with the sound quality.

As already suggested use stands for your ul15's your sound will carry further and a bit more low eq from the mixer.

Spot on there Sir, excellent advice.

i always have it on a wave shape. and sound good when my cabs are on the floor and i always have the eq on, on the cabs aswell.

If there's an EQ switch on the cabs ( which I think there is) set it to FLAT or OFF. I think it's to emphasise vocals, and taking it off may appear to increase bass response. See if this helps.

[CRAZY K]

for the smoothest bass sound, try creating a 'smiley face'. (if youre eq is sliders etc) ie from left to right your eq will look like

U (but shallower)

ie the bass is fairly up past mid way, the high fairly past mid way and the mids below mid way (scooped out).

or if you have dials try;

high at 2o'clock
mids at 10o'clock
bass at 2 o'clock

then turn loud and if needed adjust a tiny bit more bass from there or cut the mid more.

it may be your mid setting disguising your bass (turning the bass to full doesnt mean youll get a better bass sound). this setting will give you a clearer more defined bass sound.


worth a try until you can afford some bass bins. good luck

If you do that you get a muffled sound because the mid setting will kill off volume and also frequencies you want to hear!

I have never had the mid setting on hte Peavey Powered mixer at anything except 12 oclock or sometimes up to 2oclock to get more punch and mid top end in venues with bad acoustics.

If you want more bass whack up the bass eq!!!

Did you tell us what amp/ mixer your using as I suspect this may be the
real problem not the speakers.

CRAZY K

[Cj_The_Dj]

If you do that you get a muffled sound because the mid setting will kill off volume and also frequencies you want to hear!

I have never had the mid setting on hte Peavey Powered mixer at anything except 12 oclock or sometimes up to 2oclock to get more punch and mid top end in venues with bad acoustics.

If you want more bass whack up the bass eq!!!

Did you tell us what amp/ mixer your using as I suspect this may be the
real problem not the speakers.

CRAZY K

i have a behringer - henyx 1222fx
a prosound amp 1000

but i get a good bass and sound when there on the floor just not on stands

[CRAZY K]

i have a behringer - henyx 1222fx
a prosound amp 1000

but i get a good bass and sound when there on the floor just not on stands

Pro sound is that a Maplins product?

This may well be the problem---

CRAZY K

[Cj_The_Dj]

yes it is but its not bad when the cabs are on the floor. would any one recommend me using a external graphic eq.

[A1DL]

would any one recommend me using a external graphic eq.

most definitely

[Cj_The_Dj]

most definitely

any you could recomend?

[djsteve10]

i have a behringer - henyx 1222fx
a prosound amp 1000

but i get a good bass and sound when there on the floor just not on stands

Definatley change to a Peavey Amp when you can afford one.

[HaiFai]

Hi CJ,
If you are placing speakers on a stage or a floor with a void underneath the bass will reverberate in that space therefore making the bass sound more extreme (anyone please correct if I am wrong).Once you lift up onto stands or god forbid a table you will lose this. I personally find no problems with the bass from th ul15's up on stands using the same mixer a yourself. I usually add a touch of bass on the channel and a touch on the graphic eq.

[A1DL]

any you could recomend?

I love the DN360 on FOH, justifiably the long time industry standard... however I also have a few BSS FCS966s which are very nice (and more affordable)

The GEQ600 is also highly regarded by many, I haven't used one yet so can't really comment...