All right folks, Jonathan here, you must excuse me today because I got hay fever. It is a blink and pain in the ass.
A lot of people would be mentioning about speakers and they want bass caps and they do not know what speakers go where etcetera. I am going to give you a bit of a tutorial here on the good ways and the bad ways of using bass. Now we all like to have loads of bass and booming all over the place. But sometimes too much bass could be a problem and also more importantly could be a problem where by you are trying to mix and you cannot hear the music correctly. Now then cooping because you just turned it up to too much bass, I will explain.
First of all before we talk about why you are having problems with too much bass, let us look at a basic speaker. Now we have done this a few times, there you have got your bass; speaker with a bit of mid on top coming out of there and then you got a horde. Now of course you can have it all different shapes and sizes again bass speaker and you could have bullets, tweeters there or alternatively you got something like this with the bass speaker there and then you got a mid range which is slightly smaller. And then you got whole and do not forget, if you got a three way system it is almost equivalent of the bass on your actual mixer, the mid on your mixer but then this one here is the top and that is your treble.
Never get A fever it is bloody horrible. Now there is something called frequency range. If you let us say draw a line, now then let us say that line was that was bass and this was mid and top, what you have always got here is you got a hand clap like this really-really strange wiggly lines and as you get into mid they go bit bigger but then bass they are like this. Just bare that in mind that could be totally nothing to do with what we are talking about here any way but that will give you some of the general ideas.
A speaker let us look what a speaker looks like. We are going to have a cross section and basically if you can imagine a round speaker like that, there is the middle, what we are doing is we are chopping it right in the middle so it looks something like this, there is the magnet there and it goes up and across. Now these here, if you imagine this bit here that is the actual diaphragm. That is this bass from around here, that bit in the center is the center bit where the magnet is. Not this bit here is the important bit. This is the coil.
I want you to bear that in mind the coil because that is the important bit we are going to talk about. What we are going to do now, I am going to split that particular diagram into different diagrams now exactly the same but want to show you some things. Now then, there is a spider like so, put it that, that is probably a bit better for you is it not? And then exactly the same here, there is the magnet; maybe you can see a difference. Of course nothing gets to scale but, now here is the coil. Now the coil in a speaker and there is the coil, whatever that speaker is not working the coil is quit happily nested either side of the magnet. Well in fact it is actually around the magnet but this is like what I have said is a cross section. Now when your speaker in your system is working it is going boom-boom-boom with bass. It is actually moving away from the magnet. Now it is moving quit a lot dependent on how much bass you are throwing in to that speaker. This is very important.
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