NITID S12W
Dec 2022
6
Amate Audio
The cardioid preset must only be applied to the rear facing
subwoofers (BACK STAGE). The front facing subwoofers (FRONT
AUDIENCE) must use the corresponding front-facing preset, as
shown in the table below:
S12W Preset
(BACK
STAGE)
S12W
Preset
(FRONT AUDIENCE)
Box model
CARD80
STANDARD
LPF80 STANDARD
Generic, HPF 80 Hz
CARD90
STANDARD
LPF90 STANDARD
Generic, HPF 90 Hz
CARD100
STANDARD
LPF100 STANDARD
Generic, HPF 100 Hz
CARD
S-ALIGNED
S-ALIGNED
S26 / S10 / S12, HPF90 Hz
Fig. 4.
Correspondence of rear and front presets for cardioid applications
IMPORTANT NOTE
:
Due to the internal set-up of the cardioid
presets, the threshold level (limiter) of the back facing subwoofers
must be reduced by -4 dB when using stacks of three subwoofers.
[FRONT PRESET]
[BACK PRESET]
[THRESHOLD -4dB]
[FRONT PRESET]
Fig. 5.
Cardioid presets for S12W subwoofers (3 units)
When placing the subwoofers in a cardioid configuration keep a distance to walls of at
least 60 cm in order not to affect the radiation of the central reversed cabinet.
