7 Feb
2014
7 Feb
'14
1:45 p.m.
On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 09:17 +0200, Vytautas Jancauskas wrote:
given that the bass is so critical to the mix,
you want them to hear it wherever they are in relation to the speakers
(this applies to dance music as much as any other -- you want all the
clubbers to feel the same bass groove
This is written by somebody who has got absolutely no knowledge about
mixing. Perhaps this person knows how to mix dance/club music, but the
claim "this applies [...] as much as any other" is nonsense.
I read much about sub woofers on this list. I hope people are aware that
a bass has got some high frequencies too, so a bass can be located and
JFTR it's also possible to listen to music by headphones.
Some people like to listen to music that is drawing a room and that has
got a wide dynamic range. Relation to the speakers does matter for
stereo, so do they completely mix in mono for dance/club music? No, they
are mixing stereo, it's just stupid music made by people who aren't
musicians and the main instrument are a bass line and a kick in unison
to the bass line. If such an dance/club audio engineer isn't aware hat
there are thousands of different music styles and that some music styles
are really composed and/or improvised and not just a bass line + a
synced kick and that even for many kinds of dance music, the rhythm
group often is very subdued in the background, then such a wrong claim
still is a wrong claim.