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Originally Posted by wado1942  I don't think a lot of people quite get what this unit does.
It's a 3-way crossover that applies a delay to the highest band and a slightly shorter delay to the mid-band while leaving the low band alone. That's all it does, though you have control over the levels for mixing the band back together. It's designed to help compensate for the poor alignment of drivers within large speaker cabinets (notice how the tweeters are further forward than the woofers?) used for PA systems. They have no place in any kind of studio. |
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BBE Technology Licensing
"Varying either the amplitude or the phase of the transients and harmonics within signal causes distortion of the sound's characteristics. By drastically altering the transient response of a sound, it's possible to make a cymbal crash seem like a car crash. "
Even for mono speaker systems (like a bass guitar cabinet) the effect is very noticeable. While the intent of the device may be to "correct" phase relationships between high and low freqs, it may be used otherwise.