SUBWOOFERS & TRUE SOUND

[John Vella]

I just got a sub to assist my monitors....

Any tips on how to get a good balance with my exsisting studio monitors and my new sub?

I obviously don't want the sub to falsely represent my mixes but I still want some boom if u know what I mean....

Thanks for any help.

-jOHNNY

[dirty_bass]

Only use sub boxes as an occasional reference, they are useless for nearfield monitoring. You probably would have been better off saving your money for beter monitors.

[DJZeMig_L]

Z

[John Vella]

I already have 2 Alesis M1 Actives that are doing the job for now...

I guess if Ze MigL doesn't understand my question I'm in trouble. :lol:

-j

[xfive]

I had to adjust the low end eq curve on my monitors when I added the matching sub because even though theres a lo-pass on the sub, there was still too much bass coming out of the monitors. I think it was as little as -2db.... but after doing this the mix was much more dead-on.
I've got the Yorkville YSM1P's and matching YSS1 sub.

It really depends on how your rig sounds tho.. :)

-Chris

[DJZeMig_L]

Nah man it's hard enought getting yer ears formated 2 yer nearfields let alone adding a sub... I guess it's a matter of trial n error... go to the genelec webpage and download theire tests...

also do a google search for something like "bass reprodution test" etc...

That should giv' ya a little help!!

Don't forget most clubs don't even reach as low as the 40hz.

Z

[FILTERZ]

Nah man it's hard enought getting yer ears formated 2 yer nearfields let alone adding a sub... I guess it's a matter of trial n error... go to the genelec webpage and download theire tests...

also do a google search for something like "bass reprodution test" etc...

That should giv' ya a little help!!

Don't forget most clubs don't even reach as low as the 40hz.

Z

i get the feeling your not to keen on subs , i have one and i know what you mean though, so hard to get a good balance , best just to use them to check the very low end occaisonally, they are badly addictive though bass yum yum

[FILTERZ]

mores the pity that they dont get down to 20 , mmmmmmmmmmmm
drum and bass guy dillinger has a rig that properly gets down to 19 hz
yium yum ,lets start a campaign for more deep bass, anyone

[dirty_bass]

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[DJZeMig_L]

Get a massive fan and sync it with midi clock ... instant sub-sub bass! ;)




Z

[mux]

I heard that subs that can go down that low (19hz) have to be servo-controlled. I don't know that much about it though.

I'm currently reading up on http://www.diysubwoofers.org/, trying to get some ideas. I'm pretty handy with a soldering iron, and would looooooove to have 19hz bass in the house... tho definitely not in the studio, I'm sure it'd throw off my monitoring setup...

[DJZeMig_L]

yep .. u said it!

Z