Well I'm worried that my lack of t/a between the two will become more apparent and that the midbass from the subs will pull my ear back.
What slope did have the subs on @ 100hz?
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6dB/octave. No TA on your sub channels? For some reason I was thinking you ran a Pioneer 80. Worried about TA between the two subs? or between your subs and midbass?
Ok, so I made a few changes.
I crossed my subs and midbass @ 100hz with 12db slopes on both. It did tighten everything up. It sounds a lot cleaner. But I lost a lot of impact and if I compensate with my subs it draws most of the bass to the rear.
I also bumped my driver side midbass up to 600hz and reduced the slope to a 6db slope, along with setting the driver side midrange hpf up to 700hz. This was an attempt to open the stage up a bit on the left side. It worked well! I don't feel like I'm listening to everything from the front and right anymore.
For some reason when I run the auto eq with REW it wants to suck most of the bottom end out of the response. After re-micing the response and resetting the eq curves I find my bottom end very anemic. There isn't much point in spending the hours of work I put in to run 8" midbasses if I just end up cranking the subs up anyways. Maybe it's the music? Maybe I've been fattening up the bottom end my whole life and now that I have close to a properly set up eq, I'm surprised to find how little boost is actually applied down there? I don't know...
I'm gonna save all the settings and start from scratch in the morning. I'm not confident I had my t/a dialed in 100% anyways. I'd also like to try and apply the 6 channel auto eq to each channel individually and then eq left and right, that way I can boost the midbass channels a bit with effecting the overall eq. Maybe this will net better results?
Oh yeah, and my alt. whine came back! :(
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Did you try to allign the drivers per side ? Do the first spikes in the impulse-response window go up?
When ta'ing the drivers per side, I allways set the crossover first and leave em there... Then measure both drivers one at a time and look if the first spike goes up or down.. Correct polarity should be spike up....Attachment 458
Then try to get the spikes at the same point in time..
If you change the xo slopes or values, the ta will be different...
Did you try with some good mono voice? it can be easy sometimes...
reset ta
First play midbasses only, delay te driver-side midbass untill the voice is at the point where you want it ( sometimes it's even that clear that you can mark your window with some tape where the voice "stands"
Then widebanders only, same procedure and try to get them at the marked spot on the windshield..
Then all the front drivers together, while applying delay on the midbass pair to blend them with the widebanders.. after that, add the subs and blend them in..
Did this a couple of times with good results, i find it pretty boring listening to some hissing noise :D
when you start to blend midbass and widebanders it's sometimes easier to hear the "blend" with one side muted(but still apply delay to the muted midbass), the voice starts to pull towards the widebander and suddenly the full voice seem to come out of the widebander, then its mostly on the spot..
Just my $.02