Feedback Destroyer...or something else (1 Viewer)

[Blaine_M]

I was thinking of getting a Behringer Feedback Destroyer to use as a paramentric EQ for my sub. Are there any performance drawbacks of using something like this instead of say, the onix R-Des, or the Velodyne SMS-1?

 

[John Garcia]

Unless you go used, the R-Des has been discontinued for almost a year. The SMS is much more expensive, but quite effective and simple to use, however, the BFD will give you most of what the SMS does at nearly 1/3 the price including cables/adapters and an SPL meter. Drawback might be that it is much larger and just a little bit more manual than the SMS. Have you run a curve to see what your room response looks like? I was going to get a BFD too, but after I ran my curve, I don't have any issues that I felt were going to be dramatically improved. If you have big dips, you may not want an EQ. If you have peaks, an EQ is a bit more useful. One benefit of the BFD is, it can be used for any speaker, not just subs (it was not designed for subs actually).

 

[Kevin C Brown]

The sound quality of the BFD is not that great for higher frequency speakers though. For subs at low frequencies, it is fine.

 

[Blaine_M]

John, I was glad to see you responded. When I had my PB-10 I had a fairly large spike, I can't remember where it was though. Since then I've added the bass traps and switched to the PB-12NSD/v and I have not had a chance to chart the curve, but from what I've listened to I think the peak is very similar to what it was before. There was also a small dip, but I figured I can't do much about dips if it is still there. Oh, and I'd only use it on my sub anyway, the AV/3's seem to be very flat.