Jun 23, 2003 11:57 am My first question is what kind of speakers do you have on your PC?
And my second is, what's your mailing address cuz you were one of the two winners of the Ugly Studio Contest :-D www.homerecordingconnecti...=2292&frm=0
BOOM BOOM!
Posted on Jun 23, 2003 11:36 am
Murphy
An outburst for perfection
Member Since: Dec 11, 2002
Ok, The situation...
Basically, I'm having a problem with my bass guitar recordings.
Now, I'm recording the bass direct through my mixer to soundcard, it's not the recording I'm concerned with, it's the playback after I've burned the mix to Cd.
I have a commercial Cd on my hard drive for levels and stuff.
The whole mix sounds fine through my PC speakers, no boom or anything like that but, when I play it back through my car stereo there's a lot of bass guitar boom, everything else it fine, it's just the bass that's the problem.
Now, my car stereo has very poor speakers and the mix does sound fine at low volume but when more volume it applied the bass goes out of control.
Does this mean more compression on the bass? would that solve it?
I wouldn't mind if everything distorted at high volume as that's what I'm looking for and that's what the commercial Cd's sound like.
Thanks for any advice.
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Jun 23, 2003 11:57 am My first question is what kind of speakers do you have on your PC?
And my second is, what's your mailing address cuz you were one of the two winners of the Ugly Studio Contest :-D www.homerecordingconnecti...=2292&frm=0
Jun 23, 2003 12:10 pm I think it's probably that your car stereo is capable of playing back lower frequencies than your PC speakers. Your PC speakers don't even try to go that low. I've had the same problem. Try rolling off the really low lows with EQ before mixing down. You don't really need those really boomy bass lows, they just overload your speakers and prevent you from being able to turn up the CD louder.
Jun 23, 2003 12:12 pm That is why I asked about what his speakers are, cuz his profile is pretty detailed, but no mention of speakers, which makes me think they are generic PC speakers. Which mean while he mixed down he had to turn the bass way up to "get a good mix" therefore, playing back on even slightly better speakers will resault in a VERY bassy mix.
Of course, my assumption might be wrong.
Jun 23, 2003 05:02 pm Yeah, PC "Cambridge soundworks'" speakers X 4, plus a subwoofer but I only use two of them.
That was my initial thought, about having no low end, that's why I've been going off reference Cd's as I thought this would help in some way, if I could get a rough match then this shouldn't be a problem.
Maybe I have my subwoofer in the wrong place? It's under my computer desk at the moment, what's the best placement for it?
I am wanting some proper near fields soon but I was thinking I could maybe get by without them for now.
Maybe recording the bass line only and trying different settings, try and get a better view as to how low I can take the bass down, would that help?
Cheers dB, forgot about that contest, First thing I've ever won in my life!!! I'm well pleased!
Jun 24, 2003 06:57 am hey, i know where 'cambridge soundworks' is...they arnt bad speaker, for what they are at least!
Jun 24, 2003 07:13 am Cambridge makes decent speakers for games, movies and stuff, but they are not a flat frequency response, they are like any home speaker, made for playback, not for monitoring and not tuned for flat response...
They are a lot better than what I had pictured in my head tho :-)
Jun 24, 2003 07:47 am absolutely. theyre good at what they do though...
Jun 24, 2003 08:27 am your placement of your sub is dependent on where your desk is! if you are against a flat wall then it should be against that, probably where it is now if it's under your desk! depends on what sub as well, does it fire out the top, bottom or sides?
if only got a set of compaqs (and a sub that as big as the dell, if not bigger), and while i think it's a bit poor, it seems to output great to cd, but then i do most final mixdowns in headphones.
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