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In the Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time.
Post Subject: Help me to fuck up my midbass horns!Posted by Romy the Cat on: 3/20/2011
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 Romy the Cat wrote: |
| The subject of midbass nasal sound is very interesting. In addition to all OTHER aspects that might lead to midbass honk I would like to note that there is one that is in my view greatly overlooked – the precision of response. What I said that my new midbass horn has absolutely no honk then it does not mean that it has no nasal artifact under any condition. If I drive the horn in wrong frequency range and at worn volume then it will have all possible problem. What I do say is that when I very fine tune the horn in respect to my other channel and make the horn to operate in the mode that I would call “proper balance”, then the horn does not exposit any sights of nasal tone. I kind of even miss this very fine honk as I do like it. Live sound has it as well, and a very fine touch of it from horn is something that I like. My horn does not have it or perhaps I need to drive it a .25dB harder somewhere, I just do not know at this point where. His is what I am learning nowadays. |
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It is in a way ridicules. For years people who build of use horn fight with honk in horn, particularly in midbass-upperbass-lowerMF horns. I built my midbass horns and it has no honk, I mean no honk ever of any kind. Still, I am not content. As I wrote before I do look forward to get SOME very deliberate and very specific honk.
My midbassis insultingly neutral, it has fantastic dynamic, fantastic behavior at super high and super low levels, free from any coloration, superb transients, very good discriminates color and set at very proper level in the room. Everything is great but at time I feel that it is too horn-neutral, not tone-sterile but horn-neutral. It sounds like very good quality direct radiator with 109dB sensitivity driven by 1kW amplifier. What I would like to do however is to make my midbass horn to have a very slight pouch of horn honk. Yes, I am taking about a injection to very deliberate non-neutrality and very premeditated coloration. Sure I will not my horn to have honky sound, we are taking about a degree. I know exactly what I would like to distort in the sound of my horn and what result I would like to accomplish, I just have no idea HOW to do it.
Perhaps the bypassing or moderating the high-pass filters would so it, or modification of the throat’s profile or injection of things into mouth, or use some kind of reentry reflectors would do it… I have many ideas but I do not want to go and to try them, not to say the many of them will modify the sound of the horn to higher degree then produce honk. I do not want to change the sound of the horns; I juts wan to add some very very very minor honk, not any honk but good honk…
Did anybody research the subject of deliberate good horn sound?
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