11 Sep
2013
11 Sep
'13
9:50 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 01:26:49PM -0500, Brent Busby wrote:
My suspicion is that although one doesn't want to
squash the
peaks too much, there's still something about my track that is just
too spiky to engage the woofers of some stereos until the volume is
way up
This is getting out of control. What on earth is meant by 'engage
the woofers' ? Trick them into producing some sound ? Psychology,
marketing, sexual attraction or brainwashing ?
Unless it's designed to produce lots of distortion, a playback
system is linear. If you give it 1/10 of the signal, it will
produce 1/100 of the power. If your mix sounds thin and lacking
bass when reproduced on small speakers and/or at low levels, it
just needs more low frequency energy, i.e. a different mix. That
has nothing at all to do with how 'spiky' it is (whatever that
means) or with 'squashing' peaks or whatever.
Ciao,
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