Re: [LAU] Some new music made (mostly) with Linux -- comments on mix?

Heh, well, the problem with car bass and clubs is usually they're very very underdamped and also very peaky. They want to seem powerful. It's way easier to get Big Volume at 100Hz than 50, so guess what cheapy systems do... When you hear a Honda with the hood rattling from bass, I'd bet a hamburger it's around 100-125Hz. That said, even with the peaky response and the lack of damping, the original recording isn't compressing/leveling the bass much/at all. The notes and hits are varying in power by maybe a factor of three or four. Compression is usually the way to even that out and make sure you don't have a mix of 'OK' and 'way too hot'. It's hard to do that in a recording without having the instruments in seperate tracks, so I didn't really try in the version I sent to the list. It's all the multiband smoothing it out, and that works better above bass. Monty