Hopefully this video will solve all of your dance questions, with regards powered speakers and non-powered speakers. First of all, a non-powered speaker is a speaker that does not have an internal amplifier. In other words, you will need mixer; you will need external amplifier, then speaker. A powered speaker you do not need an external amplifier. In other words, you will go mixer and you can go directly to the speaker. So, pause the camera and we will have a look at some dumpy pictures that will give you a little bit of insight, hold tight. I have already done a couple of pictures, the reason being is because I have already done this video ones but bloody phone once. So, I am going to start all over again.
All right first of all, M for mixer. DJ mixer, band mixer anything does not matter, strike through an amplifier AMP amplifier. This is an external amplifier so you have a leap from here could be an RCA, could be a jack, it could be an excellent, but it does not matter, into here and then for your amp you will go into a non-powered speaker. Alternatively, mixer strike thru RCA cable and jack, but it does not matter and then strike thru to a powered speaker. So, first of all, let us have a look at this. Now some people emailed me and they said “I have seen this powered speaker setup. But what I cannot understand what I am confused about is why is there any one base camp?” Well, we will go into that shortly, but if you see a setup like this a powered setup do not panic because it is still stereo. So we will go into that in a second.
Now first of all, what is a powered speaker? Now basically, what you have got if you can imagine let us just get with vap beat first because I did do this and like I said I have done this already once am thinking forward. Now let us say all of sudden, this is a non-powered speaker. For the mixer, you would have to go an amplifier. So let us say you have an amplifier here, and then being non-powered for the amp just you have this going in and then you have a cable going here to the base camp, and one here to this or high frequency. Yes, there will be a cross over. And the cross over will separate the treble sounds from here the big base camp so you would not have any high frequencies coming from here, from the big speaker and then it will do the opposite it will take away the big boomy sounds from here. So you will only have treble sounds coming thru this small speaker. But now, a powered speaker what you will do is you go mixer, this is the original one straight into the camp. In a lot of modern day powered speakers, you will not just have one amplifier you will have two if there are two speakers, you could have three if there are three speakers. Now what will actually happen is you will have a signal coming in, that signal will come to an amplifier. That one amplifier will power one speaker, then you will have the same signal coming in to another amplifier. But also, the amps are doing a couple of things. One is that powering the speaker. But also, they are taking away the frequencies that is odd need for these particular speakers. For example, this one could be taking away the treble and mid, so you then you got base. This one here will be taking all the mid, so would not have any treble. So, this is what is happening. Now also, a couple of people have emailed me and they said “Can we blow, can we mock up our powered speakers if we put too much signal into them?” In other words, if we are pumping up here on the actual mixer, can we even blow powered speakers. Well yes and no, the reason I am saying yes and no is logically if you are going to go into the right continually these amplifiers are going to get hot and there is a good chance they could turn off over heat or you could blow something can this yes maybe you could mock at the speakers. But no as well, because a lot of modern day powered speakers have limiters and also send here. So what happens, it is almost like an internal brain, and if let us say the powers come in here, in here quite nicely and choking away, the amplifier is going to take over nicely. But all of a sudden, if the amp things thinks there is too much coming in it will stop a lot of the signals. It can say no, holds on you are pushing too much in and it will reduce the power coming into here. So in turn, it will reduce the power going unto the speaker, therefore, stopping you knack on your speakers.
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