GEQ in front of DR260

terryk

Hello all,

Is it common for driverack users to place a GEQ in line before the Driverack for \"quick\" adjustments or would this be considered a poor practice? I read on the PSW forums that some user do this.

I just bought a DR260 and have a good quality 30 band GEQ available and was wondering if there would be any detrimental effects to doing this. Or is it just better to go straight from the outputs on the console to the driverack?

It seems like it might be a useful solution for making small adjustments as the night progesses and the venue changes due to crowd changes and so forth.

Thanks for your input. The new board looks good!

TK

Gadget

Hi,
You must be doing adjustment the hard way... though the LCD screen? I use the GUI, and an old tower, and find that making adjustments is just as fast, if not faster than a tactile surface such as the Analog GEQ has.

I also don't care much for adding additional noise generators (Analog GEQ\"s) to the signal chain. The sound is pristeen and adding additional equipment in the chain kind of defeats the purpose of having an \"all in one processor\".

Other than that, I can't give you any reason NOT to and I would also \"insert\" it in the mixer sidechain...if I were to do such a thing...

gadget

Robbie

I must admit that I currently have a GEQ in the chain, but generally keep it switched to bypass, and try to use the eq on the Driverack.

But if I need to make a quick change, it's there.

Tour Manager

I have a club system which includes a 260 for mains drive. The 260 lives in the main amp rack and has been used to 'tweak' the system to suit the room. I have also placed an IEQ inline after the console which on a normal basis I have gain and all filters at \"0\" and then guest engineers are welcome to use the EQ to their liking.

I simply bypass the EQ for my use once they've \"hacked\" it. You'd be surprised how inviting a flat EQ can be to the run of the mill FOH person. The main reason I keep it inline is to keep the signal chain balanced. IF you use the main L-R insert option, you're working with a mechanically unbalanced signal connection. The minute amount of noise and/or degredation a quality EQ will have on the signal quality is negligible compared to that of the insertion process. Perhaps, in my case, the IEQ features are beneficial for such an application?

Gadget

In a situation like yours I would do the same thing. I do not have any BE's running my primary system. If I did, I think the IEQ would be a good choice. I just have a problem with putting anything like your run of the mill analog EQ ( like Alesis, ART, BEH, Phonic... ) that will compromise the signal chain and kill the pristeen audio quality. :x
G