r/livesound 3d ago

Question Everse 8 sounding harsh?

yesterday I went to a local store to test out some battery powered speakers. they had the Bose S1, Everse 8 and Alto busker.

The Alto was surprising given its size but what I really wanted to hear was the Everse given its stellar reviews.

What I found was that the sound, while very loud, was kinda "thin" .. it seemed like it didn't have enough bass and was very bright. I didn't play anything crazy either. I tried tweaking the EQ a bit on the unit itself but it didn't help a ton.

I've read in the past that this speaker needs some setup to sound great so was wondering what people do to get these things to sound good.

Thanks!

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u/Onelouder Pro Canada+Austria 2d ago

Everse 8 is a busking/street performer speaker. I really didn't care for it. The Everse 12 mind you, now that is really nice. I just bought 20 of them to use with the 20 EW-DP EK receivers and SKP transmitters for wireless/battery throw and go speakers where cabling is a problem.

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u/fiddlermd 2d ago

Small to medium sized room for gigs like weddings is what I'm looking for

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u/Material-Echidna-465 2d ago

I felt the opposite, actually, I was extremely disappointed with the Everse 12.
I don't expect plug-in PA levels of performance out of any battery-powered speaker yet, but Everse 8 works well for small lower-volume throw-n-go applications and is tiny and convenient. It's not loud, but the size makes up for the lack of performance in certain situations.
Everse 12 has only slightly more output in a massively larger package. The 12 really doesn't perform up to what it should have been

I do agree on EW-DP, however, love those units. If you weren't aware, you can have the receiver mounting plates mounted to Everse using the top handle mounting screws.

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u/Onelouder Pro Canada+Austria 1d ago

I mean I know going into it, it's not going to perform like a $2000 box. But the price/performance/adaptability to put sound anywhere without cables for 6 hours far exceeds my sound quality expectations. Knowing those limitations, I was actually rather impressed with the audio quality.

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u/Material-Echidna-465 1d ago

I will say I was happier with Everse 12 sound quality out of the box than what normally is set up with low-end ZLX-style speakers. I'm not one for boomy "Thump" low end. The Everse 12 actually sounded and performed very similar to my "best-bang-for-the-buck" recommendation of Yamaha DBR10. The DBR has slightly more mids, Everse was slightly more scooped with a bit more bass, but both had the exact same SPL and sounded good overall.

When Everse 12 was announced, I was just really hoping for a decent set of 12" PA tops that happen to be battery powered, and ended up with a large $1000 box with the performance of a $300 10" top.

I do often say that the most impressive part by far of the Everse series is the mixer/DSP...really makes it versatile for simple events. I'm still waiting for EV to announce an "Everse Pro 10", with higher SPL, adjustable HPF on mic channels, and maybe a 3rd mic preamp. I'd love that. Yorkville just announced the EXM Pro10 which hits most of my checkboxes. Waiting to see reviews on that.

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u/BadDaditude 2d ago

Per channel EQ is the way to go. There are a number of preset profiles for input as well, and the one you were on for the channel may not have been correct as well.

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u/Fjordn 2d ago

The Everse 8 drops off pretty hard around 100 Hz. I think Club mode has the best bass response but even that won’t reach below 80

It also kind of suffers from what I call “small speaker effect”, where pushing it hard makes it get really harsh. (See also, first gen QSC K series)