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Posted by thecYrus on Mar-07-2004 15:51:

how low may be the bass?

everytime i produce a nice deep bass it sounds really great on my genelecs! but if i listen to the same sound on cheap speakers it destroy somehow the other frequencies. it simple sounds distored and has a bad noise..

so my question is, how low or how do you generally make powerfull basses?

thx for the help!
so long
cYrus

Posted by Damie Mckeown on Mar-07-2004 16:06:

Re: how low may be the bass?

quote:
Originally posted by thecYrus
everytime i produce a nice deep bass it sounds really great on my genelecs!

When I first read that i thought you were implying bass makes your balls feel good, yeah.

Anyway for deep basses I just use a single sine wav, with no boost in eq and that does the job.(I dont really go for too deep anyway)
As for that problem you have, try mixing at lower levels. Remember everything sounds good and loud when your mix is loud. You might find certain things cant be heard at all at low levels, and normaly when mixing bass on speakers in the wrong enviroment we boost the bass a bit too much. Try mixing on low levels on headphones too. the best speakers aint gonna give you the best impression of your mix in other enviroments, infact the worst ones are.
(that said however, dont dedicate mixing on radio speakers)
Your speakers might be able to produce the bass really deep but Im guessing your trying this quite loud.
Try playing the mix at lower levels on those speakers and see if the bass starts swamping the mix.

Posted by dbl on Mar-07-2004 17:12:

Re: Re: how low may be the bass?

quote:
Originally posted by Damie Mckeown
When I first read that i thought you were implying bass makes your balls feel good, yeah.

*LMAO*

Posted by Mossy on Mar-07-2004 17:13:

according to my frequency chart, 50-100hz is fine on big speakers, 250-800hz is the muddy area and 800-1K will make the bass sound better on smaller speakers.

Posted by thecYrus on Mar-07-2004 18:15:

Re: Re: how low may be the bass?

thx for the information! i'll try it..

quote:
Originally posted by Damie Mckeown
When I first read that i thought you were implying bass makes your balls feel good, yeah.

*no comment*

Posted by Sean Walsh on Mar-07-2004 19:47:

Personally speaking, if my tracks sound good on a big system then I don't really care how they sound on a pair of $15 computer speakers.

Posted by Etherium on Mar-10-2004 16:46:

Bass is tricky. Very, very tricky.