How Not To Hear What You've Got: Difference between revisions
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Think of the Bose System as your entire signal chain | Think of the Bose System as your entire signal chain and listen. That is: | ||
* Pick a sizable space ''(not your tiny basement practice room)'' and start and keep things as simple as possible. | * Pick a sizable space ''(not your tiny basement practice room)'' and start and keep things as simple as possible. | ||
* Take just one input ''(a mic is a good place to start)''. | * Take just one input ''(a mic is a good place to start)''. Connect it to input 1. | ||
* Choose the appropriate | * Choose the appropriate ToneMatch Preset on Channel 1. | ||
* Set the gain (see the manual). | * Set the gain (see the manual). | ||
* Turn up the volume until it sounds pleasantly loud and listen. | * Turn up the volume until it sounds pleasantly loud and listen. | ||
* Work the tone controls on the | * Work the tone controls on the L1 or the ToneMatch mixer to tweak what you hear. | ||
* Once you are used to how the L1 is for you as a stage monitor, get someone else to use the source ''(play, sing, whatever)'' and go out to the audience area and walk all around. | * Once you are used to how the L1 is for you as a stage monitor, get someone else to use the source ''(play, sing, whatever)'' and go out to the audience area and walk all around. | ||
* If you want to add effects or processors add them one at a time and listen carefully at each step along the way. | * If you want to add effects or processors add them one at a time and listen carefully at each step along the way. | ||
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* Aim for "it sounds like me, only louder." | * Aim for "it sounds like me, only louder." | ||
If things go poorly and you can't solve it, go straight to the | If things go poorly and you can't solve it, go straight to the Bose Community for help. | ||
== Mistakes/Corrections I made along the way == | == Mistakes/Corrections I made along the way == | ||