Cerwin Vega Rig DSP settings

What you really need to know is these are 500w boxes.... NOT 2000w, and the JE36 is more of a kick bin than a sub. It DOES NOT go anywhere near 30hz... the much larger L36 is a 50hz horn so don't try to get anything more from these or you will blow the drivers. 

Metronohm wrote: Not sure what you mean by they are not a 2000W box? Do you mean the tops? On the brochure I have, it says the tops are 1000W RMS/ 2000W Peak and the subs 500W continuous, 1000W peak. So all good there, would never put anywhere near 2000W through the subs.

I wouldn't use an amp capaple of more that 1000w to either box.. CV is notorious for exaggerating specs. Every time I have been at an event with CV speakers I got to witness drivers dying. The 2153 is dual 15" box with a little 1" exit CD crossed at 2khz, this driver will not take any abuse so you have to keep the input signal clean, somebody screaming into a mic and clipping the input on the mixer(like a DJ often does) = blown HF drivers. If you know you are going to be safe from that and the program material has lots of dynamics then peak limiting will suffice, but screaming DJs/MCs and long sustained synth tones requires rms limiting and ideally mic channels with lots of control processing so it cannot be clipped and feedback is immediately supressed.

It's because there are dual 15" boxes on top, those 15's make the system naturally a bit low-mid heavy and keeping the kick separate from the "subs" improves definition.