From frankj5205@aol.com Sun Jun 18 21:25:02 2000
Subject:Re: Motion Sound

In a message dated 6/18/00 5:53:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
VoceSupportGroup@egroups.com writes:

<< In your opinion and/or useage, do you find that a Pro3 has to be miked to
be
heard in most live instances. I am going to buy one and I play with a live
band playing small to medium venues. >>

Da-boing!! It depends on how loud the band plays. If you have to 'solo' and
the band is playing really loud, you might wish it was miked. On the other
hand, turned up, the Pro3 can be pretty loud, and can put some rich filling
into even a loud band in a room that's not a huge cavern.

a) when you get the Pro3, take the little square panel off the bottom. You
will be looking at the bottom of the driver. If there is a cover there that
says 'Eminence,' you have the titanium diaphragm in this driver. Motion Sound
recommends changing this to a phenolic diaphragm, which is available from
them at about $49.95. This has the double advantage of warming the sound and,
(since it is more 'efficient') making the unit louder.

2) an awful lot of the sound you want from your organ (sim) is in the
frequency range below the cutoff freq of the Pro3. That is, it is sound which
is being put through the bass rotor sim in the Pro3 and then being put out to
be amped and monitored in your keyboard amp(s) or PA. I make sure that that
bass rotor signal is being handled in stereo by hefty amping in the lower hi,
mid, low and sub ranges. To me, this means that a huge amount of the success
of the Pro3 lies in the substantial sound output of everything else in the
system. I think putting this sound through some dinky keyboard amp just
doesn't cut it. So, to best advantage, you have the 40-watts (?) of the Pro3
complemented by the 300-450 watts of the rest of the sound system.

-F