I've been noticing lately that my Bose Compact makes a strange "tick" sound when there is a tringle or ride cymbal part. I had the Bose a year and never noticed it before. I haven't changed any EQ setting so I'm not sure why this is going on. Any Bose compact owners here experianced this? Any suggestions?

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[This message has been edited by Dnj (edited 11-22-2010).]

No problems with mine. Please provide more information, keyboard make and model, style that seems to be causing the problem, mixer (if one is used), and how things are connected to the Bose L1 Compact.

Cheers,

Gary

Thanks guys. I'm using a Tyros 2. I notice mostly if there is a triangle, high pitched ride or other high pitched percussion sound. It's most noticible with the "rumba/soca" multi pad.

My keyboard and vocals go through a Mackie 808M mixer and the mixer goes into the Bose.

If I turn the keyboard down a bit the "tick" sound will go away. Maybe I'm pushing the Bose too hard?

Bose volume is 12 O clock, Makie mixer master volume is also around 12"o clock. The keyboard volume is between 1" o clock to sometimes full. The tick starts coming around 3 o' clock.

If the speaker is indeed blown, wouldn't it sound bad at any volume?

The way it sounds from your description is you are overdriving the Bose. The Bose master volume should be at about the 10 O'clock position with the 12 O'clock position being the highest level.

Try outputting the keyboard directly into the Bose, bypassing the Mackie mixer, and set the keyboard's master volume at the 1 O'clock position. Set the keyboard's global EQs on User1 to 5,4,2.4.8 and store them to Store1. This is a good starting point. If you don't hear those sounds, then you are likely overdriving the Bose with the Mackie mixer. If this is the case, you may have to make some adjustments on the mixer output, and the mixer EQs to eliminate the problem.

Hope this helps,

Gary

I think it is the mixer. I just played some of the same stuff the was making the Bose "tick" with no mixer, and now it is fine...

I need a mixer because I'm runing two vocal mics. Any mixer recomendations for the Bose?

Behringer and Alesis make very nice, little, affordable mixers.
Eddie

Call Mackie and ask them about this issue...
Mackie is top stuff...should work perfectly...

Lee S.

Alesis 6FX works really great, and sells for under $100. http://www.alesis.com/multimix6fx

Good Luck,

Gary