why are the only two options turning the control all the way down or all the way up? What you want to accomplish is to get the monitors to sound neutral. You dont want too little or too much anything.Totally! The new cans showed me part of my monitors deficiences. I think tha cranking up the bass control in the monitors to the maximum will help to find the proper intensity of the bass guitar.
Funny is that at first place I thiught that colored cans would be useless for me unless for enjoy listening, but ironically was this characteristic that catch my attention for this detail. A new lesson was learn here!
What a bunch of nice suggestions I am getting here! I never thought about amp it! Excellent clue, thanks a lot!Sometimes I use synth bass if the part doesn't call for much, but I usually cut out a lot of mids and run the output through waves gtr bass amp modeller.
Well, the reason is because at first glance I thought that I should work with it at the minimum. But after this experience, I noticed that even cranking the bass to the maximum it still will show a lot less bass than my headphone. That's why I imagined that I should put it at the maximum. But of course it is only a guess of a total ignorant in music production (me) and I will try your suggestion.why are the only two options turning the control all the way down or all the way up? What you want to accomplish is to get the monitors to sound neutral. You dont want too little or too much anything.
If you have no way to measure and calibrate the monitors, listen to some commercial cds that you know the sound of and adjust the control on the monitors until they sound right.
I noticed that even cranking the bass to the maximum it still will show a lot less bass than my headphone.
Here, Rami -- the bass in this mix is sounding specially exagerated (even blurred) for me.
Thanks!
So!
Recently I made some mixes and they seemed to be OK so far for me through my cheap monitors (Edifier R1000) and my garbage cans.
Happens that at the mix time I 'guessed' that my monitors had too much bass and that so I should atenuate them. So I turned completely down a pot in the back of the monitors that allows you control the ammount of the bass. Listening to the mixes on some sources I have in home (cheap phones, iPhone, iPad, TV, wife's stereo, etc) everything seemed to be fine until I listen to it with my new cans (Sennheiser HD 202). At first glance I thought that the cans were the culprit for the excess of bass but then listening to some commercial tracks I noticed that there is not the same amount of bass so the cans are not so many accentuated in the bass as I thought.
Long story short although there is definitively a peak in the bass section of the HD 202 mostly of the 'excess' I am hearing comes from my mix so I definitively have to tame the low frequencies on'em specially in the bass guitar (kicks are fine). Now I think that instead of cut the bass of my monitors I should have to do exactly the inverse, that is to crank it up to maximum!
Anyway, my question is: what is more effective to do in the mix in this particular case... reduce the volume of the bass guitar by fading out its track or cut its main frequency with EQ? I understand that if I use the fader I will cut all the bass guitar frequencies at once while EQing it I will fade out only that particular frequency.
Suggestions?
Thanks!
Here, Rami -- the bass in this mix is sounding specially exagerated (even blurred) for me.
Thanks!
quite simply, I have the same problem. after recording , too much low end and muddy.. it was the room. bass traps cured that problem