Re: Getting the PA levels right

I'm not arguing your point about people going for an atomic blast, but a
kick drum has a *lot* energy below 120Hz. If you look at an EQ curve, the
decay has as much energy between 50 and 100 as it does between 100 and 150.

Don't know how you can see that from an "EQ curve," but I guess your point is that the predominate frequencies of the bass drum are not the very low frequencies. Thanks for straightening me out on that, I don't know what I was thinking.

This EQ range is important to know since rolling *off* the lower requencies
can make the kick sound better *and* make the bass sound better.

Check out this article: http://tinyurl.com/opax8

Yeah. You can learn about live sound by sitting before a computer screen and visiting websites, or you can learn by actually doing it. I guess real experience is probably overrated.
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