Consider a 3 way front stage with woofers in the doors playing from 60 to 200 hz, mids in kicks playing above 200 hz, and tweeters in the dash. The soundstage will be high due to the tweeters, and most of the important tonal clues will come from the mids.
Assuming you are going for stereo sound, how much would the imaging and listening experience suffer by using summed mono midbasses?
The lower you go in frequency, the less directional sound becomes. I think with a crossover point below 200 hz in combination with the fact that most sounds that low are panned center, i.e. kick drum, bass guitar, low end of snare drum. The low end of guitar and panned toms might be an issue.
Taking the low end of those instruments and essentially panning them to the center while keeping their high end in the mids and tweets could keep them directional while reducing the work each woofer has to do by sharing the load.
A possible downfall is a stereo recording when summed electrically could cause comb filtering and phasing that wouldn't have been as noticeable if summed acoustically.
I think there could be some benefit to this, what do you think?
Robby
Assuming you are going for stereo sound, how much would the imaging and listening experience suffer by using summed mono midbasses?
The lower you go in frequency, the less directional sound becomes. I think with a crossover point below 200 hz in combination with the fact that most sounds that low are panned center, i.e. kick drum, bass guitar, low end of snare drum. The low end of guitar and panned toms might be an issue.
Taking the low end of those instruments and essentially panning them to the center while keeping their high end in the mids and tweets could keep them directional while reducing the work each woofer has to do by sharing the load.
A possible downfall is a stereo recording when summed electrically could cause comb filtering and phasing that wouldn't have been as noticeable if summed acoustically.
I think there could be some benefit to this, what do you think?
Robby
