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Mark Wilkinson

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3TX goes active
« on: August 22, 2017, 02:09:48 PM »

Gave a go at switching a 3TX from its passive crossovers, to a tri-amped setup, kinda just for the heck of it.
Used the Danley/Linea SC-48 for processing, with it's LIR filters (which use 13ms latency)

First plot, red trace is 3TX alone, green trace is on top of two stacked single 18"s.

Impulse plot is 3TX and subs together.

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Re: 3TX goes active
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2017, 05:01:55 PM »

That looks pretty good  :o

Almost as good as the RM25ac from fulcrum but thats a single point source Studio reference monitor not a system with a separate sub so latency is about 4ms afaik.
https://timobeckmangeluid.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/rm25ac-strt.png?w=2000 (screenshot is without any eq or anything else straight out of the box in a non acoustic friendly room).
So it's a 4 way system?
Do you have a zero smoothing plot and onax vs ofax?
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Re: 3TX goes active
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2017, 08:01:14 PM »

Do you have a plot of the passive one to compare?
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Re: 3TX goes active
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2017, 05:31:04 AM »

Gave a go at switching a 3TX from its passive crossovers, to a tri-amped setup, kinda just for the heck of it.
Used the Danley/Linea SC-48 for processing, with it's LIR filters (which use 13ms latency)

First plot, red trace is 3TX alone, green trace is on top of two stacked single 18"s.

Impulse plot is 3TX and subs together.

That looks great Mark  ... so how do they sound? 

It would also be interesting to compare the active Vs passive response and phase.

Does the amp have any all-pass filters that you could use to get the phase response even flatter so it actually looks exactly like the response of Nathan's Fulcrums ?

Peter
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Re: 3TX goes active
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2017, 01:14:54 PM »

That looks pretty good  :o

Almost as good as the RM25ac from fulcrum but thats a single point source Studio reference monitor not a system with a separate sub so latency is about 4ms afaik.
https://timobeckmangeluid.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/rm25ac-strt.png?w=2000 (screenshot is without any eq or anything else straight out of the box in a non acoustic friendly room).
So it's a 4 way system?
Do you have a zero smoothing plot and onax vs ofax?

Hi Timo, thx.  Yep, it's a 4-way system, measured off of a back-of-house deck...as reflection free as I can easily/reasonably get.

First plot is same one posted earlier, but with no smoothing.

Second is a set of off axis horizontals, 10 degree increments out to 40 degrees. (60 degree horn)
Red trace is on axis, light blue right on top of red is 10 deg, the rest are more obvious.
I don't have any verticals yet.

I'd love to hear your RM25ac !


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Re: 3TX goes active
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2017, 01:25:11 PM »

Do you have a plot of the passive one to compare?

Hi Nathan,  here's an old trace of the 3tx I took a while back. 
I think i was using a different test setup, mic position etc, so I think it's probably not valid to directly compare it to the active trace I put up on the thread starter.
It may be, I'm just not sure....so I'm posting it alone....it has no smoothing.
(Jeff has my x-overs right now, or I'd make a new direct comparison....)
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Re: 3TX goes active
« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2017, 01:46:29 PM »

That looks great Mark  ... so how do they sound? 

It would also be interesting to compare the active Vs passive response and phase.

Does the amp have any all-pass filters that you could use to get the phase response even flatter so it actually looks exactly like the response of Nathan's Fulcrums ?

Peter

Hi Peter, thx!  It sounds really good, very much in the same family of the sound of the PM 60 and 90.
Gotta love those BMS coax CDs, huh?

Pls see the reply to Nathan for the 3tx passive plot.

No the processor doesn't have all-pass capability. (I just have the processor, not an amp).

So really, the only phase work that's available, apart from normal eqs, is the LIR x-over filters.
(Although it does have a really neat FIR highshelf filter, that's the smoothest sounding shelving I've heard.)

I'd characterize the LIR filters as LR24's, but without any phase rotation.
It's kinda slick how they work....it appears that how ever many taps are needed to support a reasonably flat phase LR24, at whatever is the most demanding /lowest x-over freq in play, are then also assigned to each and every pass-band higher up.
So you get the ability to move crossover points real time, without changing timing ..at least from an electrical point of view.
If the unit ever gets the ability to import FIR files, I think it could be killer. A best of both worlds combination.
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Re: 3TX goes active
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2017, 09:20:41 PM »

Hi Peter, thx!  It sounds really good, very much in the same family of the sound of the PM 60 and 90.
Gotta love those BMS coax CDs, huh?

Pls see the reply to Nathan for the 3tx passive plot.

No the processor doesn't have all-pass capability. (I just have the processor, not an amp).

So really, the only phase work that's available, apart from normal eqs, is the LIR x-over filters.
(Although it does have a really neat FIR highshelf filter, that's the smoothest sounding shelving I've heard.)

I'd characterize the LIR filters as LR24's, but without any phase rotation.
It's kinda slick how they work....it appears that how ever many taps are needed to support a reasonably flat phase LR24, at whatever is the most demanding /lowest x-over freq in play, are then also assigned to each and every pass-band higher up.
So you get the ability to move crossover points real time, without changing timing ..at least from an electrical point of view.
If the unit ever gets the ability to import FIR files, I think it could be killer. A best of both worlds combination.

Hi Mark,

What you have done here is very similar to what I知 doing with processing on the PM60 & 90.

I知 using 24 & 48 dB LR slopes but without any phase rotation on the Lake LM26 like your LIR x-overs. For the subs I知 using IIR filters.  The Lake also lets you use all-pass filters so you can pull a few more degrees of rotation out of the system and get an almost perfect phase response from 300Hz up without much latency.
   
It痴 difficult to find a processor to do exactly what we need.  The LM26 is only 3 way stereo; if you need 4 or 5 way  you need two Lake's and the price is ridiculous. The Linea SC-48 is almost there but as you said its needs the ability to import FIR files or at least have the ability to manually manipulate phase and amplitude like the Lake. It would also be helpful if it could do brick wall filters, in some situations they can be useful.
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Re: 3TX goes active
« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2017, 06:32:33 PM »

Hi Mark,

What you have done here is very similar to what I知 doing with processing on the PM60 & 90.

I知 using 24 & 48 dB LR slopes but without any phase rotation on the Lake LM26 like your LIR x-overs. For the subs I知 using IIR filters.  The Lake also lets you use all-pass filters so you can pull a few more degrees of rotation out of the system and get an almost perfect phase response from 300Hz up without much latency.
   
It痴 difficult to find a processor to do exactly what we need.  The LM26 is only 3 way stereo; if you need 4 or 5 way  you need two Lake's and the price is ridiculous. The Linea SC-48 is almost there but as you said its needs the ability to import FIR files or at least have the ability to manually manipulate phase and amplitude like the Lake. It would also be helpful if it could do brick wall filters, in some situations they can be useful.

Hi Peter, for sure...kinda amazing how difficult it is to find the processor that does it all.
 
I've been looking through the Lake manuals trying to understand the LM26 all-pass capability, but without luck.
Does it have both 1st and 2nd order?  Can Q (or BW) be changed?
Particularly, can 2nd order be inverted?

I've just begun to try to get a handle on all-pass, but 2nd order inverted looks very promising for fixing the LF end of a pass-band's inevitable smiley face phase.  Am I thinking straight here?

So far, at least in terms of ultimate adjustment capability... the best "processor" I've found is a bank of miniDSP openDRCs for processing, put together with a DL-155 stagebox for I/O.  Unfortunately, nothing is real time, and it involves too many components, but when using a FIR generator program like rePhase or FirDesigner with this combo, it makes everything else I've tried feel quite primitive.

I'm beginning to build some strong ideas on what the perfect processor would be lol
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Re: 3TX goes active
« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2017, 05:07:45 PM »


I've been looking through the Lake manuals trying to understand the LM26 all-pass capability, but without luck.
Does it have both 1st and 2nd order?  Can Q (or BW) be changed?
Particularly, can 2nd order be inverted?


Hi Mark,
The Lake does have both 1st and 2nd order all-pass.
On 1st order only the frequency of the filter can be changed.
On 2nd order both frequency and bandwidth can be changed.
I don't believe there is a way to invert the filter although that would be handy as you said.
Hope that helps. Peter can contribute way more to this than I can.
Don
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Re: 3TX goes active
« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2017, 09:02:34 AM »

Hi Mark,
The Lake does have both 1st and 2nd order all-pass.
On 1st order only the frequency of the filter can be changed.
On 2nd order both frequency and bandwidth can be changed.
I don't believe there is a way to invert the filter although that would be handy as you said.
Hope that helps. Peter can contribute way more to this than I can.
Don

Hi Don, Thanks.   
I finally found the all-pass filters in the Designer Manual....there sure is a ton of literature for those Lakes.
I learn a lot from manuals...especially from gear i can't afford !
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Re: 3TX goes active
« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2017, 10:50:22 PM »

Hi Mark,
The Lake does have both 1st and 2nd order all-pass.
On 1st order only the frequency of the filter can be changed.
On 2nd order both frequency and bandwidth can be changed.
I don't believe there is a way to invert the filter although that would be handy as you said.
Hope that helps. Peter can contribute way more to this than I can.
Don

With the Lake there is no invert all-pass, the trick is to use of combination of delay and all-pass filters to get what you want ... its tricky
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Re: 3TX goes active
« Reply #12 on: September 03, 2017, 02:02:29 PM »

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Re: 3TX goes active
« Reply #13 on: September 03, 2017, 07:27:05 PM »

There is no invert all-pass, the trick is to use of combination of delay and all-pass filters to get what you want ... its tricky

Hi Peter,  I can invert all-pass with rePhase and FIR...it's really cool, and seems to be a very elegant way to correct the lower freq end / downward sloping phase end, of driver correction.
But alas, inverted via FIR brings the same old latency problem. 
And the only reason I'm even looking at all-pass is to use IIR to reduce latency.....soooo
Gotta study tricky :)
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Re: 3TX goes active
« Reply #14 on: September 03, 2017, 07:28:16 PM »

Tricky it is for the first couple of times.....

https://timobeckmangeluid.wordpress.com/2016/10/24/once-upon-a-time/

Hi Timo,  thanks...will give a hard look.
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Re: 3TX goes active
« Reply #15 on: September 04, 2017, 04:00:24 PM »

Hi Timo,  thanks...will give a hard look.

Good luck ;-)

It took me a while before i wasn't guessing anymore but it's not that hard If you know what to look for.
The only thing you'll run in to: higher filter orders need a "shit load" of AP2 filters to get phase flat if the x-vr is set at low frequencies on the high driver....
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Re: 3TX goes active
« Reply #16 on: September 04, 2017, 04:26:32 PM »

Hi Timo,  thanks...will give a hard look.

By the way you might use FIR for the high's and after that use AP2 o the "low driver".
In doing so you can get really crazy results.


Because the FIR will introduce latency on the high driver the low driver's response will show phase going up and you can get it down again using AP2 filters. (It took about 8 AP2 filters if i remember correctly in this case. x-vr at 1K or 1K2 not sure about that since it's been a while since i did this one. Ofax needed a lot more work by the way).


The final response above had about 4ms of latency......
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« Reply #17 on: September 08, 2017, 07:40:23 PM »

Hi Timo, thx for the all-pass video.
 
I don't think I would have ever seen how to do that....work down from the high freq end, step by step. 
And yeah, wow can that process chew up a boatload of filters...especially when things get steep, or low.

I don't have a processor with on-the-fly all-pass capability.  I have to embed all-pass inside FIR files.
So, as you can imagine, it's impossibly time consuming for me to dial in all-pass like you showed,......
but really, I think the phase adjustment tools in the FIR generators are alot easier that the all pass method.

Your plot looks crazy good ! Nice work !!!

Here's my work today on a 3tx alone without sub (3-way, high-passed at 100Hz.)
Hope to tie in sub tomorrow,  and also check off axis verticals. Pretty sure horizontals are ok.

15ms latency....which is what I allow myself cause i use horn loaded subs that chew up about a dozen ms on their own.
This was with miniDSP....I'm checking out the Linea vs the miniDSP, but making the contest conform to a 15ms weight class :)


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Re: 3TX goes active
« Reply #18 on: September 18, 2017, 06:07:21 AM »

You might want to go less flat on the phase part in the low end.
Has to do with subs if you add them.

Since sub woofers are time stretched devices you'll see the phase trace go down under a angle  (the response it self will show The phase going down and implementing a low-pass filter at the desired x-vr will even steepen the angle.

I did a 5.1 surround set up using the RM25ac from fulcrum. The RM's are starting at 24Hz with the first and only wrap around at +/- 30Hz an after that the phase moves gradually toward the 0コ line at about 500Hz.

If you add a sub woofer (at that time the only sub available was a 900LFC from Meyer) you have to alter the respons of the RM because of the sub.

(speakers in the 5.1 set-up where 2 x RM25ac (main lft/rght) 2 x FA28ac (surround lft/rght) 1 x UPJ1p center and 1 x 900LFC's for sub).

First the RM25ac solo(no processing):
https://timobeckmangeluid.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/rm25ac-strt.png?w=2000

And the full 5.1 set-up all speakers on measured at the gold mic position (all processed via a Galileo 6-16):
https://timobeckmangeluid.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/5-1-all-on-pink-noize.png?w=2000

As you can see the added sub forced me to implement a 2nd order allpass filter at about 100/125Hz to get every speaker to match.
(My training room is not measurement friendly sort of ;-) )
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Re: 3TX goes active
« Reply #19 on: September 27, 2017, 02:28:04 PM »

You might want to go less flat on the phase part in the low end.
Has to do with subs if you add them.


I do try to flatten phase as much as possible on the low end of the mains,
using however much latency I figure is ok. 
Just like I try to flatten the high end of the subs....

IMO, it's just a matter of how much latency can be allowed, otherwise I'd flatten all the way to 20 Hz  ;D
15ms has worked well on a half a dozen recent live gigs, which coincides with the latency using the SC-48's linear phase xover (LIR) @ 100Hz.

Below, are results after adding a sub to the 3tx, still set up 3-way active....
Purple is using the Danley SC-48, and its LIR filters for all three x-overs.
Green is miniDSP, with 15ms worth of taps performing all duties. (Windy day..ignore the HF phase rolloff)
So both have nearly the same latency...





 
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