Hey guys, I was just wondering what your oppinions are on sound processors? I saw this one in the crutchfield magazine and i was interested by the description, also seems to have good reviews, but I generally take car audio reviews with a grain of salt. Unless they are from Ecoustics that is lol. http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_150_AudioControl+The+Epicenter+-COLOR-+WHITE -.html
Feel free to tell me about any other signal processors you like.
it recreates the low soundwaves in the subwoofer spectrum, to recreate a full and rich bass songs..
in other words it will create a diferent bass tones of the song to make it more compatible to your subwoofers and make it sound fuller and bigger..
i will suggest a hifonics maxxlink even its a bridge procesor can be used with one amp as a line driver with some bass features that will really help you out..
also check waves maxxbass its alot better if you need some bass
Bottom line. the epicenter is one of the most used car audio equipment.. its been out for a while and really is a great thing to have but you have to keep in mind having that you will not have a real Sound quality system since the epicenter will output diferent BASS LINE than the original ones.. so for true audiophiles that thing is out.. so is more for people who just want bass when the songs they play dont have enough bass lines to feed their bass set ups..
Can someone please describe what they do in more detail please?
I think I get it, but im not sure. Lets say I play the song tom sawyer by rush on my system, but it doesnt have as much bass as I would like. I get a soundprocessor and it boosts(safely) the low end frequencies so that it bumps more like a rap song than a classic rock song? Then what does it do on a bass heavy song?
the epicenter will take out the bass line from your song tom sawyer and recreates it with a much more bassier bass line
and bass boosters only boost the lower frequencies
on the epicenter you might hear the bass lines alil diferent than originals if you hear them in a true sound quality system..
its also a restoration product so it will restore the missing bass lines and recreat it again with a more bassier line but yeah it will modify it wont be noticable but in true terms the ending output is diferent from the original
from my experience with mine you will only use it on rock music. its effects on rap and such genre's are very undesireable.
what it does is detect the low freq's in the original composition, then amplifies the lower octaves of it. so say you have a bass drum that produces an 80hz sound on the track. the epicenter amplifies your choice of a lower octave, say 40hz, over that 80hz, giving it a much deeper/louder sound. the gain of it is user determined by the remote knob direct from the unit.
it will work great on certain songs, but not all of them. depends on the original production. for those it where it doesn't you just adjust the epicenter gain to 0 via remote knob and it's effects disappear.
if you want have that song with lacking dual bass drums shake the sh!t out of your car, yes, buy one. i won't go without one now.
If you think that thing IS going to "fix disortion in the bass on lower quality songs"... then well, you're even dumber than I thought... and that says a lot.
Thanks guys, I think I might go with the epic160, so even if i dont care for the bass restoration I still have the built in spl meter. from what I have read it is pretty accurate, obviously not a termlab, but i have heard it is only off by </= +/- 2 db.
I used to own an EpiCenter, before I sold it. It's a nifty gimmick, but honestly it was just as easy to run a pre-amp with a +/-15dB boost knob @ 40Hz. That put bass into ANYthing with a twist of the knob. The Epi is a cool little unit, and it will put bass back into things like old poorly mastered CDs or radio stations, but I'm a believer in keeping a signal path as simple as possible for the best result, so I try not to get carried away with these add-on signal processors.
If you think that thing IS going to "fix disortion in the bass on lower quality songs"... then well, you're even dumber than I thought... and that says a lot.
read it carefully you fu.cking tool...
you so fu.cking useles.. you dont know sh1t shut the fu.ck up
like i said it will not fix it will recreate the bass line with a much bassier one the effect might be good on some songs or undesireblade in another songs..
fu.ckin douchbag read before quoted something that never been said stupid
try to find a maxx wave or orion maxx bass or any maxx bass sound processor put that between your front speaker and just hear it works.. awesome piece of equipment but its to rare here in the car audio community
