Axiom SW36XFP User manual

SW36XFP
passive subwoofer
USER MANUAL
revision 2023-09-14

2
Watch for these symbols:
The lightning ash with arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated
“dangerous voltage” within the product’s enclosure, that may be of sucient magnitude to constute a risk of electric shock to
persons.
The exclamaon point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operang and
maintenance (servicing) instrucons in the literature accompanying the appliance.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
1. Read these instrucons.
2. Keep these instrucons.
3. Heed all warnings.
4. Follow all instrucons.
5. Do not use this apparatus near water.
6. Clean only with dry cloth.
7. Do not block any venlaon openings. Install in accordance with the manufacturer’s instrucons.
8. Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators, heat registers, stoves, or other apparatus (including ampliers) that
produce heat.
9. Do not defeat the safety purpose of the polarized or grounding-type plug. A polarized plug has two blades with one wider than
the other. A grounding-type plug has two blades and a third grounding prong. The wide blade or the third prong are provided
for your safety. If the provided plug does not t into your outlet, consult an electrician for replacement of the obsolete outlet.
10. Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched, parcularly at plugs, convenience receptacles, and the point where
they exit from the apparatus.
11. Only use aachments/accessories specied by the manufacturer.
12. Use only with the cart, stand, tripod, bracket, or table specied by the manufacturer, or sold with the apparatus. When a cart
is used, use cauon when moving the cart/apparatus combinaon to avoid injury from p-over.
13. Unplug this apparatus during lightning storms or when unused for long periods of me.
14. Refer all servicing to qualied service personnel. Servicing is required when the apparatus has been damaged in any way, such
as power supply cord or plug is damaged, liquid has been spilled or objects have fallen into the apparatus, the apparatus has
been exposed to rain or moisture, does not operate normally, or has been dropped.
15. Warning: to reduce the risk of re or electric shock, do not expose this apparatus to rain or moisture.
16. Do not expose this equipment to dripping or splashing and ensure that no objects lled with liquids, such as vases, are placed
on the equipment.
17. To completely disconnect this apparatus from the ac mains, disconnect the power supply cord plug from the ac receptacle.
18. The mains plug of the power supply cord shall remain readily operable.
19. This apparatus contains potenally lethal voltages. To prevent electric shock or hazard, do not remove the chassis, input
module or ac input covers. No user serviceable parts inside. Refer servicing to qualied service personnel.
20. The loudspeakers covered by this manual are not intended for high moisture outdoor environments. Moisture can damage
the speaker cone and surround and cause corrosion of electrical contacts and metal parts. Avoid exposing the speakers to
direct moisture.
21. Keep loudspeakers out of extended or intense direct sunlight. The driver suspension will prematurely dry out and nished
surfaces may be degraded by long-term exposure to intense ultra-violet (UV) light.
22. The loudspeakers can generate considerable energy. When placed on a slippery surface such as polished wood or linoleum,
the speaker may move due to its acouscal energy output.
23. Precauons should be taken to assure that the speaker does not fall o a stage or table on which it is placed.
24. The loudspeakers are easily capable of generang sound pressure levels (SPL) sucient to cause permanent hearing damage
to performers, producon crew and audience members. Cauon should be taken to avoid prolonged exposure to SPL in excess
of 90 dB.
This marking shown on the product or its literature, indicates that it should not be disposed with other household wastes at the end
of its working life. To prevent possible harm to the environment or human health from uncontrolled waste disposal, please separate
this from other types of wastes and recycle it responsibly to promote the sustainable reuse of material resources. Household users
should contact either the retailer where they purchased this product, or their local government oce, for details of where and
how they can take this item for environmentally safe recycling. Business users should contact their supplier and check the terms
and condions of the purchase contract. This product should not be mixed with other commercial wastes for disposal.

3
LIMITED WARRANTY
Proel warrants all materials, workmanship and proper operaon of this product for a period of two years from the original date of purchase. If any
defects are found in the materials or workmanship or if the product fails to funcon properly during the applicable warranty period, the owner
should inform about these defects the dealer or the distributor, providing receipt or invoice of date of purchase and defect detailed descripon.
This warranty does not extend to damage resulng from improper installaon, misuse, neglect or abuse. Proel S.p.A. will verify damage on returned
units, and when the unit has been properly used and warranty is sll valid, then the unit will be replaced or repaired. Proel S.p.A. is not responsible
for any “direct damage” or “indirect damage” caused by product defecveness.
• This unit package has been submied to ISTA 1A integrity tests. We suggest you control the unit condions immediately aer unpacking it.
• If any damage is found, immediately advise the dealer. Keep all unit packaging parts to allow inspecon.
• Proel is not responsible for any damage that occurs during shipment.
• Products are sold “delivered ex warehouse” and shipment is at charge and risk of the buyer.
• Possible damages to unit should be immediately noed to forwarder. Each complaint for package tampered with should be done within eight
days from product receipt.
CONDITIONS OF USE
Proel do not accept any liability for damage caused to third pares due to improper installaon, use of non-original spare parts, lack of
maintenance, tampering or improper use of this product, including disregard of acceptable and applicable safety standards. Proel strongly
recommends that this loudspeaker cabinet be suspended taking into consideraon all current Naonal, Federal, State and Local regulaons. The
product must be installed be qualied personal. Please contact the manufacturer for further informaon.
DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY
The product is in compliance with:
RoHS Direcve 2011/65/EU and 2015/863/EU, WEEE Direcve 2012/19/EU.
The product is in compliance with:
S.I. 2012/3032 The Restricon of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and
Electronic Equipment Regulaons 2012

4
INTRODUCTION
The SW36XFP subwoofer is designed to deliver high quality low frequency reproducon where very high output is a key
requirement, together with well dened deep bass response and fast transient response. Its compact size and light weight make it
suitable for several dierent uses, ranging from touring applicaons to xed installaons and high-level dance clubs.
The SW36XFP is a very high quality powered subwoofer system featuring some of the most advanced technologies for low frequency
reproducon. Its unique and innovave design is based on a conguraon that can be dened as Manifolded Band Pass.
It uses manifolding of the front side of the cones to maximize the mutual coupling between the two drivers. This innovave
conguraon does not use any large resonant cavity to load the speaker, but very compact cavies in order to obtain advantages
in terms of denion, both at the lowest end and the upper bass.
The SW36XFP subwoofer system is equipped with two high power 18” (460mm) transducers capable of very long excursion (up to
30mm peak-to-peak), and featuring a a large displacement suspension system. These transducers use Tetracoil technology, where
two dierent, axially separated magnec gaps and two inside-outside 100mm (4” ) diameter voice coils are wound on the same
former and suspended evenly in the two magnec gaps. This creates an equivalent voice coil diameter greater than 6”, resulng
in a larger heat dissipaon area for and increased power handling. Addional key advantages of the Tetracoil technology are also
minimized distoron and a very symmetric and at inductance curve. Cones are made of very high-sness berglass reinforced
paper, featuring also invisible water repellent treatment.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
SYSTEM POWER HANDLING
System’s Acousc Principle Manifolded Band Pass Power Handling Connuous* 1800 W + 1800 W
Frequency response (±3 dB) 36 Hz – 100 Hz (Processed) Power Handling Program 3600 W + 3600 W
Frequency range (±10 dB) 28 Hz – 300 Hz (Unprocessed) Power Handling Peak 7000 W + 7000 W
Nominal Impedance 8 Ω + 8 Ω
Power Compression
@ -10 dB Power = 0.6 dB
@ -3 dB Power = 2.0 dB
@ 0 dB Power = 3.4dB
Minimum Impedance 5.7 Ω + 5.7 Ω
Sensivity (1.41V @ 1m, 2Pi) 101dB (averaged from 40 to 100Hz)
Maximum Peak SPL @ 1m 143 dB ENCLOSURE & CONSTRUCTION
TRANSDUCERS Width 745 mm (29.4”)
Type Two 18” (460 mm), 4” (100 mm) VC 8Ω Height 795 mm (31.3”)
Cone Water repellent, epoxy coated plates Depth 710 mm (27.9”)
Voice Coil Type
100mm (4in) Tetracoil dual voice coil,
equivalent to a single coil diameter
larger than 152mm (>6in)
Depth Including Wheels 838 mm (32.9”)
Enclosure material 15 mm, reinforced Phenolic Birch
Paint High resistance, water based paint
Suspension Ultra linear suspension behavior Wheels 4 heavy-load 100 mm ø (oponal)
INPUT CONNECTIONS Transport 6 handles
Connector Type Neutrik® Speakon® NL4 x 2 Side Suspension High Strength Steel with ¼ Fast Pin
Input Wiring LF1 = Pin 1+/-; LF2 = Pin 2+/-) Back Suspension High Strength Steel with ¼ Fast Pin
Net Weight 87.4 Kg (192.7 lbs.) without wheels
* AES Pink Noise Connuous Power
INDEX
INTRODUCTION ...........................4
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION ..................4
MECHANICAL DRAWING ....................5
OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES ....................5
SPARE PARTS ..............................5
INPUT ...................................6
LINK .....................................6
PREDICTION SOFTWARE: EASE FOCUS 3 ........7
AIMING and SUSPENDING
INSTRUCTIONS (FLOWN SET UP) ..............8

5
MECHANICAL DRAWING
OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES
NL4FX Neutrik Speakon® PLUG PC260 2 in 6 out digital loudspeaker processor
KPTSW36 Fly bar for Axiom SW36XF and AX2010 Loudspeakers USB2CANDV2 PRONET network converter
AXFEETKIT Kit made of 6pcs BOARDACF01 foot
see hp://www.axiomproaudio.com/ for detailed descripon and other available accessories.
SPARE PARTS
AC103GS 100 mm Swivel castor without brake 98AXM218TLW8 18’’ woofer - 4” Tetracoil® dual voice coil - 8 ohm
95AXM014 Locking Pin for AX2010 NL4MP Neutrik Speakon® panel socket
74.6 cm
29.4"
71.0 cm
27.9"
79.5 cm
31.3"
83.8 cm
32.9"
F F
F
F
FF
F = Flying Points
T = Feet for floor or stacking installaons
T

6
INPUT
Power input for the external amplier. The SW36XFP does not include a passive crossover for ltering the signal. The connecons
are the following:
INPUT - LINK
NL4 pin number internal connecon
1+ LF1+
1- LF1-
2+ LF2+
2- LF2-
WARNING!
To avoid speaker damage during use both loudspeaker must be always connected and driven with same input signal and
equal amplied power.
LINK
Power output in parallel with the INPUT socket for connecng the unit to another speaker. The number of SW36XFP cabinets that
can be connected in parallel depends on the amplier load capacity.
WARNING! CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS AND CONDITION OF USE:
• This loudspeaker is designed exclusively for Professional audio applicaons. The product must be installed by qualied
personal only.
• Proel strongly recommends that this loudspeaker cabinet be suspended taking into consideraon all current Naonal,
Federal, State and Local regulaons. Please contact the manufacturer for further informaon.
• Proel do not accept any liability for damage caused to third pares due to improper installaon, lack of maintenance,
tampering or improper use of this product, including disregard of acceptable and applicable safety standards.
• During assembly pay aenon to the possible risk of crushing. Wear suitable protecve clothing. Observe all instrucons
given on the rigging components and the loudspeaker cabinets. When chain hoists are in operaon ensure that there is
nobody directly underneath or in the vicinity of the load. Do not under any circumstances climb on the array.

7
PREDICTION SOFTWARE: EASE FOCUS 3
To aim correctly a complete system we suggests to use always the Aiming Soware - EASE Focus 3:
The EASE Focus 3 Aiming Soware is a 3D Acousc Modelling Soware that serves for the conguraon and modelling of Line
Arrays and convenonal speakers close to reality. It only considers the direct eld, created by the complex addion of the sound
contribuons of the individual loudspeakers or array components.
The design of EASE Focus is targeted at the end user. It allows the easy and quick predicon of the array performance in a given
venue. The scienc base of EASE Focus stems from EASE, the professional electro- and room acousc simulaon soware developed
by AFMG Technologies GmbH. It is based on the EASE GLL loudspeaker data le required for its use. The GLL le contains the data
that denes the Line Array with regard to its possible conguraons as well as to its geometrical and acouscal properes.
Download the EASE Focus 3 app from the AXIOM website at hps://www.axiomproaudio.com/ clicking on downloads
secon of the product.
Use the menu opon Edit / Import System Denion File to import the GLL le, the detailed instrucons to use the program are
located in the menu opon Help / User’s Guide.
Note: Some windows system can require the .NET Framework 4 that can be download from website at hps://focus.afmg.eu/.
NOTE: in this gure is shown the result of an suspended array with each box delayed of 2mS progressively, this method point
downward the wave propragaon to avoid ceiling reecon at 80Hz octave.
NOTE: With SW36XFP (passive version) use only the “Standard Preset” input conguraon for all boxes in the array to obtain a
correct EASE 3 predicon.

8
AIMING and SUSPENDING INSTRUCTIONS (FLOWN SET UP)
Suspending the sub-woofers has dierent advantages and some inconvenient. One inconvenient is that it’s not possible to use
the cardioid conguraon, while another one is that as the sub-woofers don’t couple with the ground and indoor usage can have
dierent behaviours depending on ceiling and walls. The advantages are that the space underneath the stage can be free from subs,
the coupling between sub and sat is beer and, using a column of 4-6 sub boxes, the basses can be steered more deeply into the
audience with a more uniform distribuon of the low frequencies.
The SW36XFP subwoofers can be suspended alone or at the top of a vercal array of AX2010P loudspeakers using the KPTSW36
y bar. The boxes are linked together in a column using a series of couplers integrated in the frame of each enclosure. Each system
can be set properly both acouscally and mechanically, using the aiming soware.
Coupling the system in the front does not require any adjustment: using two locking pins, each loudspeaker box is xed to the
previous. The sloed bar in the back is inserted in a U-shaped frame that features a series of numbered holes. Sliding the sloed
bar in the U-shaped frame of the next loudspeaker and inserng a locking pin in one of the numbered holes, it is possible to adjust
the relave splay angle between two adjacent loudspeakers in the array column.
KPTSW36 y bar maximum capacity is 780 Kg (1719 lbs) with the 0° angle. It can support, with a safety factor of 10:1, up to:
• 16 AX2010P (ybar from 0 to 10°)
• 2 SW36XFP + 12 AX2010P (ybar from 0 to 10°)
• 6 SW36XFP + 4 AX2010P (ybar from 0 to 10°)
• 8 SW36XFP (ybar at 0°)
SUSPEND HOLES
SUSPEND HOLE
INDICATOR
AX2010 REAR BOX
PIN ATTACHMENT
SW36XF REAR BOX
PIN ATTACHMENT
FRONT BOX
PIN ATTACHMENT
FRONT BOX
PIN ATTACHMENT
STRAIGHT SHACKLE 16mm
(not supplied)
M10 FOOT FOR
STACKED INSTALLATION
(OPTIONAL)
IDENTIFICATION AND
DATA LABEL
KPTSW36 FLY BAR AND ACCESSORIES
REST PIN FOR
UNUSED ATTACHMENT
Wind loads
When planning an open-air event it is essenal to obtain current weather and wind informaon. When loudspeaker arrays are own
in an open-air environment, possible wind eects must be taken into account. Wind load produces addional dynamic forces acng
on the rigging components and the suspension, which may lead to a dangerous situaon. If according to the forecast wind forces
higher than 5 b (29-38 Km/h) are possible, the following acons have to be taken:
- The actual on-site wind speed has to be monitored permanently. Be aware that wind speed typically increases with height above
ground.
- Suspension and securing points of the array should be designed to support double the stac load in order to withstand any
addional dynamic forces.
WARNING!
Flying loudspeakers overhead at wind forces higher than 6 b (39-49 Km/h) is not recommended.
If the wind force exceeds 7 b (50-61 Km/h) there is a risk of mechanical damage to the components which may lead to a
dangerous situaon for persons in the vicinity of the own array.
- Stop the event and make sure that no person remains in the vicinity of the array.
- Lower and secure the array.

9
Follow the sequence in the gure for xing the
y bar at the rst box.
Usually this is the rst step before liing up
the system.
Be careful to insert properly all the locking
pins (1)(2) and (3)(4) then the shackle (5) in the
right holes as specied by the aiming soware.
When lifting the system always proceed
gradually step by step, paying attention to
secure the y bar to the box (and the box to
the other boxes) before pulling up the system:
this makes easier to insert properly the locking
pins. Also when the system is released down,
unlock gradually the pins.
During the liing be very careful to not let the
cables enter the space between one enclosure
and the other, as their compression could cut
them.
Please note that the boom Rear Link Bar of
the SW36XFP cabinet is retained in the guide
with a magnet, force it to release it down, it is free to slide from rear to front of the box (see gure): the backward posion is to
link another SW36XFP box, the forward posion is to link a AX2010P box.
SW36XFA/P REAR LINK BAR
SW36 - SW36 link posion
SW36 - AX2010 link posion
1
2
3
4
1
2
5
KPTSW36 FLY BAR ASSEMBLY SEQUENCE

10
1
3
2
2
4
4
5
KPTSW36 - SW36XFP - SW36XFP
ARRAY ASSEMBLING SEQUENCE
MAX:
KPTSW36
+
8x SW36XFP

11
1
3
3
2
2
4
KPTSW36 - SW36XFP - AX2010P ASSEMBLING SEQUENCE
MAX:
KPTSW36
+
2x SW36XFP
+
12x AX2010P

PROEL S.p.A. (World Headquarters) - Via alla Ruenia 37/43 - 64027 Sant’Omero (Te) - ITALY
Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone] www.axiomproaudio.com