James McFadyen
New Member
I posted this message in a forum at http://www.futureproducers.com and thought that perhaps some of you peeps out there who like to create your own music in your home studio, just as I like to do.
The question was how do you get really really low bass?
Here is what I posted:
most loud speakers start to cutoff at around 80Hz. You will then find that need an awful lot of gain at sub-bass frequencies 30-40Hz, which will cause irrepairable damage to your loudspeakers.
Never use octave dividers to provide the low bass! Absolutely never, beacause they simple boost the the FREQUENCIES down an octave of the original. EQ may help, but only if you're applying a very little amount - speaker damage remember!
FREQUENCY alone is not the issue - a fault with many under-developed engineers! A lot of it has to do with COMPRESSION. Waves made a great sub-bass plug-in called MaxxBass - sub bass generator which does NOT add, in the audio sence, a bunch of sub frequencies. This is marvellous technology to make a co-hesive PHASE ALIGNED sub bass sound - and what's more, IT DOESN'T ADD TO YOUR LEVEL! You get big sub bass without gain on your master faders! Now that is a serious piece of kit.
I'm some of out tMP users will find this helpful :wink:
The question was how do you get really really low bass?
Here is what I posted:
most loud speakers start to cutoff at around 80Hz. You will then find that need an awful lot of gain at sub-bass frequencies 30-40Hz, which will cause irrepairable damage to your loudspeakers.
Never use octave dividers to provide the low bass! Absolutely never, beacause they simple boost the the FREQUENCIES down an octave of the original. EQ may help, but only if you're applying a very little amount - speaker damage remember!
FREQUENCY alone is not the issue - a fault with many under-developed engineers! A lot of it has to do with COMPRESSION. Waves made a great sub-bass plug-in called MaxxBass - sub bass generator which does NOT add, in the audio sence, a bunch of sub frequencies. This is marvellous technology to make a co-hesive PHASE ALIGNED sub bass sound - and what's more, IT DOESN'T ADD TO YOUR LEVEL! You get big sub bass without gain on your master faders! Now that is a serious piece of kit.
I'm some of out tMP users will find this helpful :wink: