How to set up Velodyne dd15

Hi STreetdaddy,

What i meant by 'basics' is that the autosetup should be a good place for you to start...you will see it will automatically take care of the radical stuff, moving around the frequency spectrum, etc...getting you to a decent configuration. the basics are done.

then, you can manually go in and fine tune as per above. feel free to pm if you are struggling to get thru the finetuning process, or if u r hearing things you are struggling to finetune.

Lloydlee,
What do you have your low pass filter cutoff set at?

Hi Streetdaddy,

I run my speakers in parallel to the Velodyne...meaning i do not 'cut off' my 2 main speakers at all using the Velodyne. i run the signal straight from my amp to my speakers...and run a separate signal straight from my preamp to the Velodyne.

At that point, i cut the Velodyne off from playing anything higher than 40hz. i use a steep 48db filter to really kill off the signal above that level...for some reason, it works well in my room...possibly due to nodes and other things i have not measured/bothered to investigate. seems to work to my ear.

Streetdaddy

if you wish to use your Velodyne's internal crossover, please let me know what speakers you are using. That makes an enormous difference. Full range vs bookshelf speakers will have very different low-end capability which will dramatically change was crossover/cut off you use to blend the sub to the speakers.

In general, i have found running in parallel to provide a more balanced range...but on my first bookshelves, i did find the bass on them was so loose at high volume/low end, it was partly ameliorated when i used the internal crossover.

let us know your speakers, and we can take it from there. i'm no expert but happy to help having used Velodyne in all my systems for 15 yrs or so.

If you use auto setup and have big dips or bumps, you have to move the sub. I agree with the other posts so far. You need to have the sub in the right place 1st.
Tim