Here we have two individuals, neither of whom are full-time soundmen, but despite that fact, are courageous operators of audio gear in their respective environments. I take my hat off to them!

Hi, my name is Ron –

Hello, Ron. I’m not going to tell you what my name is!

I work in a nightclub as a bartender-maintenance-sound guy.

Wow, you are a triple-threat individual!

Once I told an arrogant sound guy who thought we were so special and superior to all the other club employees that he could never in a million years be a bartender, because he did not have the patience and the people skills.

I also have a lot of respect for hard-working maintenance people. I know what it’s like to spend three days getting sunburned and picking up trash around an air show.

Ah, youth!

I think that my DJ has been playing around with my settings on my crossover.

Don’t tell me, let me guess.

The bass is all pumped up, right, Ron?

How do you come up with a proper setting for your system, how do you set the crossover?

I’ve taken the liberty of morphing your two questions into one. Those of us who have been soundpersons for a number of years have the ability to mute the other sections and listen to one driver at a time and adjust the top and bottom of the frequency range, so that the element is performing at maximum output, but not straining or damaging itself.

No offense, Ron, but you might be better off obtaining the manufacturer’s suggested settings and just putting them in. You gotta do something about that DJ though!

You can get these clear plastic covers that screw on over the crossover or EQ with little thingies you can only remove with an Allen wrench.

Good luck – I hope the DJ doesn’t have an Allen wrench!

Pardon me, I’m needed to help out my new pal “J” …