headknockah said:
ok these basslines are fucking killing me....sometimes the sub hits verry nice...even when there are other sounds in the same region as the bass hit..be it snares...hi hats...fx sounds...whatever...other times when there is nothing in the same area as the sub hit..its quieter...i dont get it...is it just going to be that way or what?ive tried some of the things some of you have mentioned...some of those things work in some spots...in others they dont and it makes no sense to me
am i maybe just being too picky?
Remember also that the acoustics of the room that you're in affect the effectiveness of bass. Finding a good room setup is CRUCIAL - make sure your speakers aren't positioned too close to the walls, as this stifles bass, and you can have problems with reverberations and echoes if your room is fairly bare - also rooms sometimes respond differently to different frequencies.
If you can, play your track on more than one system - try a NICE pair of headphones too, ones with neodymium magnets have much better bass, like the Sony fontopia range for example - if your tracks sound good on different systems and headphones, and sound shite in particular areas on your system that you use for production, then you can either learn to understand how a track sounds in that particular room, on that particular system, and know how to compensate and recognise that the track isn't actually bad, it's the room that's doing it.
I prefer to do mixes and mastering on headphones and then listen on speakers afterwards, I feel that headphones offer me a more rounded, overall sound, as opposed to my subwoofer kit, which seems to just lose bass on some notes - but I know for a fact this is due to the weird positioning of my system, as my PC is positioned in a corner of a fairly small room with lots of clutter about (my bedroom!), and the sub is stuck in a corner so the sound's going to be a bit baffled.
Read Fresh's article on production and room acoustics in this month's Knowledge mag, he talks about just this subject.