[Dream] Calibrating tempers?

[klapton]

Here's another thought to ponder... Maybe your bass is too clean 
sounding?  Not having heard the tracks in question, I couldn't say.  But 
a really clean, almost sine wave sounding bass may not have much 
presence on anything but studio monitors and larger sound systems with 
enough bottom end reinforcement.  To test this, try running the master 
output through a high pass filter, trying cutoffs at 60, 70, 80, and 100 
Hz to see how much bass disappears.  Compare that to professional 
recordings having a thicker, more complex bass.  So maybe some higher 
order harmonics on the bass would be enough to thicken the sound.  Could 
be as simple as layering the same sound an octave higher with more 
cutoff to help it blend in better.

spork wrote:
> Are you saying that my perception of the bass shouldn't change, no
> matter where I position myself relative to the speakers? That is
> definitely interesting, cause I have to admit that there are several
> 'dead zones' - areas where the low-end rumble is more or less
> cancelled out. My so-called studio room is anything but ideal.
> Unfortunately, I'm not in the position to get an acoustically treated,
> sound proofed penthouse... =) I have a lot of junk and furniture in
> there, and the roof is even slanting! My monitors are Behringer 2031A
> Truth - but I guess that doesn't really matter with the hole I'm
> composing in. Maybe I should go for a zen thing, and toss out all the
> furniture.
>
> Anyway - point taken. 1: Buy mansion. 2: Worry about bass levels.
>
> /spork
>
> On 1/24/07, phile <phile.me at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Spork,
>>
>> well, some thoughts: you see the lack of bass in your mix is not
>> neccessarily caused by the monitors producing too much bass
>> it could very well be a bass buildup in your room at the mixing position.
>> Does your perception of the bass change when you're
>> walking around the room?! See, you don't have to realyl tear down your room
>> to improve it sonically and also there are ways to
>> do it cheap but it would really help if you just mention what is your setup
>> -- i.e. monitors (model), position in the room and layout
>> of the room, furniture in the room (!). The elimination of testing on hi fi
>> won't go away -- you will still need to test it there ;) ...and
>>  pretty much everywhere else you can. That's why I was saying to learn the
>> problem of your signal chain and work with it rather
>> than agains. All professoinal (and not so pro) studios have a hi fi system
>> (or two ... or more) to test on ;). And an eq on your
>> master will do you a bad favor as you won't be able to judge the individual
>> instruments properly, not to mention your master will
>> be affected by the eq ... Hey did you check out the ilnk to realtrps I
>> posted ?!
>>
>> p.s. ask if any of the terms are not clear .... communication here (and not
>> only) is a two way street ;) I can't know what you don't
>> know if you don't tell me :-P
>>     
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