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Aspen, I know this is a pipe dream right now, but:

 

For me, the only meaningful downside to this cabinet is the distance aspect. It sounds best 6 or so feet away from you. But that means that you can't play and adjust at the same time. I find the shuttling from keyboard to box and back, rinse and repeat, to adjust for the room less than practical, especially in new rooms or new groups. And if something is hinky halfway though a set, it can be even more difficult to find a good moment to get up and walk back to the box to trim it even more.

 

I do use a personal mixer, but often the only adjustment needed is local to the box itself, not to FOH sound, so EQ at the mixer isn't always a solve.

 

BUT this could easily be addressed with a remote panel that controls the same aspects as the four knobs on the back of the box. The ability to adjust width or speaker EQ on the fly would be a massive benefit for the gigging user of this monitor. (Particularly if, like me, your gigs, rooms, or bandmates can vary by the week or the night.)

 

Is this within the realm of feasibility? It doesn't need to be wireless, it doesn't need to be fancy. It just needs to remotely adjust the same parameters as those four knobs. I'd gladly pay extra for this capability. Given that the box is virtually required to sit more than leaning-length away from you, it seems like a logical next-gen addition to the fold.

 

SS3.1 perhaps?

It can be done with an analog matrix, i.e. op-amps, potentiometer, maybe a mixer if you can set it up. If the SS is adjusted with an equal mix of mid and side, (presume a 12 o'clock setting of the Width control), then matrix is:

 

L' = 0.5 * (L+R) - m*R

R' = 0.5 * (L+R) - m*L

where m is the remote mid-side mix ratio, and 0 <= m <=1.

 

The output of this matrix L' and R' become the L and R inputs to the SS.

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Yup! My first bass player had one and he had no problem competing with two twin reverbs (2 guitar players) and an Ampeg V4 (me).

That must be because of his zen-like nature. IIRC B15n? About 30W.

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Hey guys

I'm intrigued, but I think you would have to have at least the 2nd, sideways, "perpendicular" speaker be an open back cabinet - to produce the Figure 8 pattern. Not sure how you would do that with a powered PA speaker, those are always enclosed.

You'd have to put two back-to-back and run one out of phase with the other. A single free-space driver is probably best. Maybe some time delay could be added compensate for driver spacing but I suppose that would work for the far field only (which is maybe good enough).

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Years of work went into it but it is clever IMO. I just found out about it a couple of days ago and read through the whole thread. This thing should do well with my Nord SW73.

 

Based on the relative mix between the two mic's (cardioid and fig 8), the M-S mic has a pattern that changes from a figure 8 to two super cardioids (IIRC), then to a single cardioid. There is no reason to think that the SS3 isn't approximating the same thing but in reverse, producing left and right audio with the same pattern. In these images the front of the SS3 would be pointing to the top.