In the past, room-correction solutions focused on optimizing magnitude response, with little help to correct phase response crucial for consistent performance throughout a room. However, with advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning, combined with the development of all-pass filters, Dirac Live can now deliver spatially consistent bass response to make the most of your subwoofer setup.
Building on the strengths of the existing Dirac Live room correction solution, Dirac Live Bass Control introduces an automated method for controlling the bass characteristics of a sound system at multiple listening locations. The solution comes in two versions:
Dirac Live Bass Control leverages all-pass filters, plus machine learning and artificial intelligence, to calculate gains, delays, and all-pass filters for each subwoofer. In this way, the Dirac solution ensures that low frequencies add up so that not only the average is controlled, but most importantly, seat-to-seat variation is minimized as we can now achieve a level of control in multiple locations at once.
Here's the deal, in my previous few installs, I had been using a simple 12$ RCA bass control knob. You run RCA's from the HU to the knob, then from the knob back to the amplifier controlling the input level from the head unit to the amp. Simple. Well I recently got a new amp, which came with a Remote bass control knob. I hooked this knob up to the amp via the telephone jack looking remote cable, while still running my RCA's through the original knob. I've been keeping the RCA knob at 100% and using the remote to control the levels.. My question is, is this a bad idea for any reason at all? Perhaps output voltage from the RCA's or something of that nature? Also, what are the pro's and con's of using a RCA knob and a Remote knob if I were to use just one of them? What should I do in this situation?
I have seen people use a remote bass knob that was hookep to their amp and one that was hooked up to the sub to control the subs volume. I dont use a knob period, let alone bass boost. I hope your control is for a gain and not bass boost.
Bass boost and remote bass knobs can be used if you desire just keep your eyes, noise and ears out for distortion or any other bad you can do to the subwoofer. If your confident in your control of the knob and your amp is set correctly to use the knob then it shouldnt damage anything.
Gotcha now.. So you don't think I should eliminate either of the knobs? I don't really see a purpose for both being there, other than the fact if I switch out amps and one doesn't have remote control, I always have the RCA one for backup. More or less a lazy bypass of removal and installation.
I personally would not use either but that is up to you, mostly a personal preference if you ask me. If you dont see the need for it then I would get rid of the one in the way of your rca's on the way to the amp and use the one on the amp if you want to use at least one of them. If there bass boost knobs then i wouldnt use either but that is just me, I would only use them or one of them if they remote gain knobs only.
The RCA knob is more than likely a simple attenuator. So all it can do is turn the volume "down", but can never turn it "up" past the original level being output from the headunit (that's assuming it doesn't offer any sort of bass boost circuitry...most of them don't).
Without knowing what amp you have, I have no idea what the knob actually controls. If it's a remote gain control, then those are usually basically the same thing....an attenuator that can only turn the volume "down" but not "up". However, if it controls the bass boost or something of that sort, then you could be in trouble using it.
If they are both just attenuators, then there's nothing really wrong with just leaving them both installed. It'd be a little redundant to leave them both in, but sometimes it's a bigger PITA to remove something from a system than it's worth due to having to rewire. If they are both just attenuators, then you can basically continue doing what you're doing, leave one all the way up and use the other one as the control.
Thanks for all the input guys. But I got to thinking because I wasn't 100% sure, and I see that the Remote knob that came with the amp is a Bass BOOST knob as opposed to just a level control. What sort of trouble am I looking into now? I didn't think it was that bad because I listened to the system without the remote knob, and it sounded the same as it did with the remote hooked up and turned full tilt. I haven't noticed any distortion that you would hear from an overdriven bass boost.. It seems to me that it's just acting as a volume control, as the RCA one is.
apologies in advance; im extremely ignorant when it comes to car audio. i have a kicker sub, crunch amp, and pioneer carplay head unit. im able to control the decibel level using the interface on my head unit but its very inconvenient. so i asked my guy to install a little bass control knob on my dash so i could quickly adjust the bass volume. heres the problem: all it really does is when the knobs at minimum value it turns the subs off, and then at the next level it sets the bass volume at whatever decibel level i have it set at on my headunit, then any level past that it just barely gets louder and louder. it overall just seems really ineffective. does anyone have any advice? do i need a different, better knob? or were my expectations just wrong
I have a couple of thousand CDs and some sound like they forgot to record the bass. With tone controls I could wind up the bass and wind down the treble but I prefer to just not listen to those albums!
Yeah, I of course find that too, especially with a lot of the Rock and such that was recorded / mastered in the seventies. But of course, this is why the audio gods gave us subwoofers with level control, and remotes.
Was using a surround controller for bass management & speaker delay. Will now be going to Atmos so will need to find a different solution. Will be using an RME Digiface Dante audio card and a Ferrofish A32 Dante as my converter, so I will need to handle bass management & speaker delays in Nuendo Control Room. Anyone doing this that could give me some guidance or their CR setup?
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My old speakers were getting to where they just had to much bass for me, even though they did have bass and treble controls built into the speakers. I decided to buy some new ones. Got these at Staples today, comes with a sub-woofer and right and left speakers. Probably don't even need the sub as I rarely play music on my computer. Now, I discovered that there is NO treble or bass controls on the speakers so I have been trying to find an adjustment in Win 10 for the Realtek device and can not find anything. I have found "levels" for center, sub, right and left but not sure those have anything to do with bass and treble. I would also note I only have 3 speakers so not sure where they are coming up with the center speaker?? I just would like to be able to control these speakers a little better by increasing the treble and reducing the bass some. Thanks for any help.
If your motherboard / PC has a built in soundcard it'll be using it's own software separate from Windows. That is Windows (10) does not have it's own Bass / Treble setting, but instead relies on the soundcard's own software for those features. With that if you've a soundcard that relies on Realtek drivers chances are you've got a control panel similar to what I've got on my Gigabyte MB...
For the record, the last time I saw a bass, mid, treble setting was in a DJing app. Most media players or audio control panels will have an EQ instead. And again, this is not something native to Windows (10).
Also it would be cool if you had different options for the increments raising and lowering those settings. For example, instead of just Volume percentage, also add a 0 through 10 scale like the Alexa voice control has. Less spoken words equals easier voice control, e.g., Alexa, set volume to 5.
Would like to see voice commands for treble and bass as well. When you shift from playing a playlist or station with songs from the 70s and then shift to a playlist or station with current songs, the bass difference is extremely noticeable.
So if you reduce the bass, which is heavy on current songs, older songs from the 70s sound like they have no bass at all. And you bump up the bass on older 70s songs, the bass on current songs is like overkill.
Surround monitor controllers are very expensive (thousands of dollars). However, the total mix software could totally handle this. It's just a set of crossover filters on each channel that redirects the low end to the LFE channel, pretty basic stuff. And yet the ONLY interface that I'm aware of that does this is the TC Electronic StudioKonnekt 48. I have one of these at my work studio and the bass management is awesome... but unfortunately the interface itself is not as good as the RME ones. I have an RME at my home studio, but to switch to RME at work would require spending big money on a bass management controller.
If I'm doing surround bass management there is no way I'm going to want to craft that together with EQ's that aren't optimised for that purpose, e.g. I want the crossovers to be aligned so there's no 'whole in the middle' or frequency asymmetry. This would effect everything you hear, it should be custom designed for this purpose as well as making it 'idiot proof'.
I imagine that the above probably would NOT cause an issue in Total Mix as it seems to be built for transparency rather than 'color', but again, as I stated before, without a task-specific bass management crossover system, I wouldn't feel comfortable sending all my signals through a user assembled system. It's a bit like asking people to crossfade two signals together but not guaranteeing them an equal-power crossfade curve.
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