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Joejoe
New member
i know it somewhat seperates the lows and highs on the speaker..is it a nice tool to use after the mix..what are some nice tools you can use to enhance your mix..
dragonworks
Banned
The crossover is hardware built into your speakers and has no effect on the mix and you cant change them unless they are active crossovers. Most speakers have passive crossovers that have fixed crossover points. You can buy active crossovers which let you adjust your crossover points. Crossovers are what seperate the frequencies and send the lows to the woofers and the highs to the tweeters in a two way speaker system and the mids to the midrange speakers in a 3 way speaker system.
sonusman
Banned
Actually you CAN change passive crossovers. But you should let a person with some understanding in how they are built do that, and certainly you should have a clear objective for doing so. I have heard of many loudspeakers that have great drivers in them, but crappy/badly designed crossovers in them. I have heard these boxes after a better passive crossover was installed and the difference was very nice indeed.
Anyway, dragonworks is correct that they don't have a bearing directly on your mix, but certainly if your speakers are flawed in their design, that WILL have a great bearing on your mix because you will do things in the mix to compensate for the badly designed speaker system.
I always wanted to play around with a electronic crossover inserted over the master buss of a mixer while mixing a tune, just to see what kind of weirdness it would do. Thanks for reminding me to try it! I will post results when I actually get around to trying this...
Ed
Anyway, dragonworks is correct that they don't have a bearing directly on your mix, but certainly if your speakers are flawed in their design, that WILL have a great bearing on your mix because you will do things in the mix to compensate for the badly designed speaker system.
I always wanted to play around with a electronic crossover inserted over the master buss of a mixer while mixing a tune, just to see what kind of weirdness it would do. Thanks for reminding me to try it! I will post results when I actually get around to trying this...
Ed
dragonworks
Banned
Sonusman is correct again, you can change crossover points on a passive crossover. Some passive crossovers come with different terminals to allow you to select different crossover points. You can remove the crossovers from your speakers and replace with a different crossover with crossover points more to your liking but your speakers were probably designed properly with the proper crossovers. You could even remove your crossovers and replace individual components on them, caps, coils, etc to get different crossover points but you really dont want to do any of the above. I just blew another crossover in my tannoys, #2,sonusman, how would I fuse them to prevent melting them for a third time. I was thinking of buying a less powerful monitor amp but cant afford it right now. I melted the them last time and my daughter got em this time.