11-07-2018, 10:48 AM
I'll only focus on the <125Hz zone and the Final mix.
I know you are on headphones but unless the mixmaster translates to speaker woofers of a larger size, it will compromise the listening experience. If the woofer is trying without much success to move in and out to deliver a rapid fire of say, a 50Hz kick, it will collapse the mid and upper mids (with 2-way drivers), until the crossover. Clarity will come from the tweeters, not the woofer, and fool an inexperienced listener into hearing the harmonics or the beater's attack.
A woofer works by moving in and out - excursion, as it's known in the trade. The bigger the woofer, the bigger the disaster. With an increase in speaker mass the harder it is to make it accelerate, stop, then retract without distorting. None of the posts I've read have given this a thought.
Your headphones will have a relatively insignificant mass, so they move willingly, giving a false impression. Plus they will have a boost at about 100Hz, helping to mislead your perceptions as you assess the harmonics rather than the fundamental. Suffice to say, a sub woofer would merely tremble or quiver, and not deliver the clarity needed by this genre. The kick will simply wobble and produce massive distortion as profuse quantities of inarticulate transients. This ends up as smearing in the time domain and this in turn affects the frequency response, "Hello mud!".
This problem will contribute to your low-end, power, clarity issues of the guitars, for example. But it affects everything in the mix, directly or indirectly.
I know you are on headphones but unless the mixmaster translates to speaker woofers of a larger size, it will compromise the listening experience. If the woofer is trying without much success to move in and out to deliver a rapid fire of say, a 50Hz kick, it will collapse the mid and upper mids (with 2-way drivers), until the crossover. Clarity will come from the tweeters, not the woofer, and fool an inexperienced listener into hearing the harmonics or the beater's attack.
A woofer works by moving in and out - excursion, as it's known in the trade. The bigger the woofer, the bigger the disaster. With an increase in speaker mass the harder it is to make it accelerate, stop, then retract without distorting. None of the posts I've read have given this a thought.
Your headphones will have a relatively insignificant mass, so they move willingly, giving a false impression. Plus they will have a boost at about 100Hz, helping to mislead your perceptions as you assess the harmonics rather than the fundamental. Suffice to say, a sub woofer would merely tremble or quiver, and not deliver the clarity needed by this genre. The kick will simply wobble and produce massive distortion as profuse quantities of inarticulate transients. This ends up as smearing in the time domain and this in turn affects the frequency response, "Hello mud!".
This problem will contribute to your low-end, power, clarity issues of the guitars, for example. But it affects everything in the mix, directly or indirectly.
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