6 Feb
2014
6 Feb
'14
6:20 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 04:15:48PM +0000, Dan S wrote:
My point here is not that the "rule" Fons
denies is not an unbreakable
rule but it's an extremely strong convention, empirically demonstrated
in this pop dataset at the least. So yes it's a "rule" in the
colloquial sense, and not just in bass music.
It is certainly a very strong convention. Apart from loudness
there may be another reason why.
In typical 'chart' music the bass is responsible for a large
part of the signal level. It's easy to test this, take your
favourite track and send it via a switchable highpass (200 Hz)
to a meter that shows both RMS and peak (e.g. a K-meter).
With the filter in place, the RMS level wil drop quite a bit
(between 5 and 10 dB). The peak level will change much less.
That means that when you put the bass off-center, your level
meters may well show 'out of balance', in particular if they
have a small range as e.g. a VU, during the entire song.
Many sound engineers probably dislike that, even if it does
no harm at all.
Ciao,
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FA
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