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In Reply to: how close can your system get to reproducing a drumkit? posted by freddyi on April 8, 2002 at 11:15:48:
Freddy, My three way horn system with 35Hz. J style bass corner horns does a pretty good job, when driven with 20 or 30 watts or more. Although it is fun to crank them up and impress people occasionally, this is not why I use horns. The thing is, I don't really want to be in a small room for very long with a guy blasting on a drum kit, whether live or reproduced.My bass horns use Magnavox 15" field coil woofers, which provide very good impact and control. The RCA woofers I have may be even better (they are beefier), but they won't fit into the back chambers of the horns, darn it. I designed these horns before discovering these early theatre woofers. For mids I use the early RCA equipment, MI-1428B drivers on RCA 12 cell fiberboard horns. These provide plenty of impact on rim shots and such at live levels.
One thing to be wary of is dynamic compression in the recording. The Sheffield Drum Record on CD is the best commercial recording of a drum kit I have heard, but recordings of drums in commercial mixes have usually had much of the life taken out of them. Movie soundtracks on DVD are no better. Saving Private Ryan has pretty realistic sound, but the gunshots and explosions are still compressed heavily. Again, not a big deal, as you wouldn't want the war in your living room anyway. Using a high sensitivity horn system makes this all easier to sort out, as the speakers are not adding much compression to the end result. Minimonitors and tiny breadbox "subwoofers"? No thanks!
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- Re: how close can your system get to reproducing a drumkit? - Steve Schell 04/8/0215:52:25 04/8/02 (0)
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