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Do I need a subwoofer?
In my setup, I use a pair of NHT A-10's. I like them quite a bit, but they
have no sub-woofer, so they are somewhat flat. I enjoy the clarity when mixing on them, but my mixes don't always translate. I will get the mix perfect sounding in the sudio, but when played on a car or home stereo I get a bit of bass muddiness in the overall frequency of the mix. Would having a subwoofer to click off and on and hear what the mix would sound like in a home environment help this problem? |
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Do I need a subwoofer?
I will get the mix perfect
sounding in the sudio, but when played on a car or home stereo I get a bit of bass muddiness in the overall frequency of the mix. Would having a subwoofer to click off and on and hear what the mix would sound like in a home environment help this problem? It might help, but it will probably hurt. My guess is that if your mixes seem muddy on other systems, it's probably due to cancellations at those frequencies in your control room. You can't begin to critique speakers until you can trust your room. Joe Egan EMP Colchester, VT www.eganmedia.com |
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Do I need a subwoofer?
"Doc Gorpon" wrote in message
In my setup, I use a pair of NHT A-10's. I like them quite a bit, but they have no sub-woofer, so they are somewhat flat. I enjoy the clarity when mixing on them, but my mixes don't always translate. I will get the mix perfect sounding in the studio, but when played on a car or home stereo I get a bit of bass muddiness in the overall frequency of the mix. Would having a subwoofer to click off and on and hear what the mix would sound like in a home environment help this problem? I use a fairly stout (400 watt power amp) home-brew 12" sub with my A10's when I want to get serious about listening. I find that the A10's have a lot more dynamic range if crossed over from 80 to as high as 130 Hz (24 dB/octave). A 130 Hz crossover means that the sub and the A10s have to be pretty close together. I use the sub for a foot rest, if you catch my drift. |
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Do I need a subwoofer?
Doc,
I will get the mix perfect sounding in the sudio, but when played on a car or home stereo I get a bit of bass muddiness As Joe suggested, this sounds like a classic case of control room acoustics at play. As for subwoofers, to my way of thinking a subwoofer should simply extend the response of the main speakers to a lower frequency. Your A-10s are spec'd flat to 57 Hz, which is not very low. So a sub might help in your case. But even more important is fixing the room first. --Ethan |
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Do I need a subwoofer?
Doc Gorpon wrote:
In my setup, I use a pair of NHT A-10's. I like them quite a bit, but they have no sub-woofer, so they are somewhat flat. I enjoy the clarity when mixing on them, but my mixes don't always translate. I will get the mix perfect sounding in the sudio, but when played on a car or home stereo I get a bit of bass muddiness in the overall frequency of the mix. Can you hear the bass in the studio? How carefully do you have the room set up? Would having a subwoofer to click off and on and hear what the mix would sound like in a home environment help this problem? It depends on the problem. If it's a room problem, adding a sub will make it worse. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Do I need a subwoofer?
It depends also on how you mix. You can be adding things with EQ that you
don't need and can't hear. be careful with broad bottom end EQ on things. Plenty of people mix on smaller speakers and do very well, it takes some experience to know what not to do. --------------------------------------- "I know enough to know I don't know enough" |
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Do I need a subwoofer?
Can you hear the bass in the studio? How carefully do you have the room set up? I can hear the bass fine in the studio. I don't have the room setup that great. But it's not any worse than where my secondary listening tests, which don't sound as good, are. Like living room, den, etc. |
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Do I need a subwoofer?
Doc Gorpon wrote:
In my setup, I use a pair of NHT A-10's. I like them quite a bit, but they have no sub-woofer, so they are somewhat flat. I enjoy the clarity when mixing on them, but my mixes don't always translate. I will get the mix perfect sounding in the sudio, but when played on a car or home stereo I get a bit of bass muddiness in the overall Sounds like the room your mixing in is not letting you hear the range the muddiness is in and your compensating for what you can't hear.. Could be anywhere but most likely in the 250 area. You can get a lot of things piling up in that range and think 100 cps either way also. Of course, if you're loading up the 80-100 to make it sound like you like it, it can mask the 250 deal. I went nuts for a while with a similar problem until I fixed the low end acoustics in my control room. --Wayne -"sounded good to me"- |
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