Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Tom" <tombrook11232@y...> wrote:

> The Peavey Amp I have is the Mark VI Series and is about 12 years 
> old, although it has hardly any use on it.   I didn't dig up the 
> specs on it yet, but it has a built in equilizer with the top band 
> centered on 10kHz.  It also has a built in crossover adjustable 
> between 200 and 2000 Hz and I do have a spare stereo amp laying 
> around here.

The amp definitely goes beyond bass range and approaches, if not 
actually reaches, cymbal frequencies. If it will drive at least one 
other small speaker of some kind and cross over to it in the upper 
bass or lower midrange, your current situation might be good enough 
to satisfy you. Your ears can decide. In the best scenario, you could 
mount a couple of satellites on the rack or on stands and treat the 
bass cabinet as your subwoofer, crossing over at a frequency that 
protects the sat(s) from overload.

If you really want the cymbals to sing, however, you shouldn't tap 
out at much lower than around 16 kHz. If you're my age, you probably 
can't hear frequencies any higher than that point, anyway. If your 
current amp won't go that high, you might use a second one to drive 
sats that overlap your bass speaker at their bottom end, say, 100 kHz 
or so, thus avoiding a separate crossover altogether (though it's not 
always easy to integrate sats/subs without leaving a hole in the 
sound no matter what you do). A separate amp for bass and another for 
the rest of the frequency range (down to 100 Hz or so) would at least 
ensure that the sats don't get pushed beyond their limits if they're 
driven by the same amp as the bass w/o a crossover.

Ed