YanKleber
Retired
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!
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!