tenor_singer
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Hello!
I want to start off by saying that I have a very dependible tech director. I think she is smart, dedicated and wants to do the best job possible. She is also seeking outside help with various aspects of sound and lighting.
My question...
We tend to pop the tweeters on our speakers an average of two times a year and almost always on Wednesday of tech week. My friend, who is an engineer and TD for an area theater, said that it was because we were clipping the sound.
1. What is clipping the sound? I was under the impression that it meant turning down one wave frequency to almost zero while cranking the others.
2. I think that they are popping because some fool always trips on the plug and unplugs the system from the wall sending a loud "thwack" through the speakers. Could this be causing it? If so that was this fall's reason.
3. This spring, my TD turned on a body mic before checking it's volume on the board, which was pegged (some jack-off was messing around with the slides when she wasn't looking). The feedback that went through the system was amazing (unfortunatelly she didn't have the destroyer programmed yet). Would this cause the speakers to pop?
4. My system has a 1000 Watt Amp and two EV 300sx speakers. Are they too weak for the amp?
5. I will be showing my tech crew any responses to this post, so any additional advise you have for them would be great.
If we were to rate my knowledge of sound engineering and lighting on a scale of 1 - 10, it would be a 6. My crew's have been trained to the best of my ability, so their level is similar. My ability to translate answers will be limited, so layman's terms please .
Yours in theater,
Tenor
I want to start off by saying that I have a very dependible tech director. I think she is smart, dedicated and wants to do the best job possible. She is also seeking outside help with various aspects of sound and lighting.
My question...
We tend to pop the tweeters on our speakers an average of two times a year and almost always on Wednesday of tech week. My friend, who is an engineer and TD for an area theater, said that it was because we were clipping the sound.
1. What is clipping the sound? I was under the impression that it meant turning down one wave frequency to almost zero while cranking the others.
2. I think that they are popping because some fool always trips on the plug and unplugs the system from the wall sending a loud "thwack" through the speakers. Could this be causing it? If so that was this fall's reason.
3. This spring, my TD turned on a body mic before checking it's volume on the board, which was pegged (some jack-off was messing around with the slides when she wasn't looking). The feedback that went through the system was amazing (unfortunatelly she didn't have the destroyer programmed yet). Would this cause the speakers to pop?
4. My system has a 1000 Watt Amp and two EV 300sx speakers. Are they too weak for the amp?
5. I will be showing my tech crew any responses to this post, so any additional advise you have for them would be great.
If we were to rate my knowledge of sound engineering and lighting on a scale of 1 - 10, it would be a 6. My crew's have been trained to the best of my ability, so their level is similar. My ability to translate answers will be limited, so layman's terms please .
Yours in theater,
Tenor