ashcat_lt
Well-known member
Get the sub. You really shouldn't be mixing much louder than you would watch tv, so it shouldn't bother neighbors much. It's nice to crank it up every once in a while, but you do that in the middle of the day when you know nobody's around.
You may not "need" all that sub bass information, but it's very important to know what you have got. There could be all kinds of nasty rumble eating all of your headroom, but if you don't know it's there... You might get in the habit of sticking an analyzer plug on your mix bus so that you can at least see what's going on in the range your speakers won't do. The nature of those plugs mean they're not very trustworthy at the bottom of the spectrum either, though.
Or, you know, highpass all your mixes so that they fit through your speakers and call it your sound.
If you can afford the sub, you should get it.
You may not "need" all that sub bass information, but it's very important to know what you have got. There could be all kinds of nasty rumble eating all of your headroom, but if you don't know it's there... You might get in the habit of sticking an analyzer plug on your mix bus so that you can at least see what's going on in the range your speakers won't do. The nature of those plugs mean they're not very trustworthy at the bottom of the spectrum either, though.
Or, you know, highpass all your mixes so that they fit through your speakers and call it your sound.
If you can afford the sub, you should get it.