What is your monitoring set-up: how are you listening?

CalCutta

@Korakios said:

@asnor said:

@WMWM said:

but bass is to be felt (in your chest) rather than heard. Im not nescesarily talkng about Bass head music; rock and metal, electronica etc. all have a history of base.

So in mixing, knowing most will listen on earpods or headphones, do you throw out the low end by drastic cuts below lets say 80 or so leaving more energy available in the rest of the spectrum?

You can mix deep bass on headphones; you just need to find a pair that reproduce it and (as mentioned) are reasonably accurate. Beyond that, the trick is to use good reference material.

Sure you can ,but you will loose the feeling of the song. It's what WMWM said. Ask a bass guitar player (especially reggae/ dub) if he would prefer playing with the best headphones in the world or a cheap loud 1KW amp....

+1 not to mention most headphones that produce deep bass do so at the neglect of other frequencies in the mix, frequencies that are hard to produce out of those headphones in any situation (see Beats Audio)

eustressor

Nothing beats a decent set of monitors, 'cept maybe a decent set of monitors in an acoustically treated room. But headphones are OK. I used to play bass in a band where everyone wore headphones and had their own mixing station and a mic. Best rehearsal experience I ever had. And if a body likes to mix with subwoofers, why not?

The important thing is not what you hear in your studio. It's what others hear in their living rooms, cars and headphones. That's where I go to find the chest-thumping bass in my mixes. I believe regularly referencing your mix on real world equipment and comparing it to genre-related commercial mixes is the single most crucial mixing step in home recording.

That and recognizing the signs of ear fatigue and calling it a day so you can start back up with fresh ears later. FWIW.

asnor

@Korakios said:

@asnor said:

You can mix deep bass on headphones; you just need to find a pair that reproduce it and (as mentioned) are reasonably accurate. Beyond that, the trick is to use good reference material.

Sure you can ,but you will loose the feeling of the song. It's what WMWM said. Ask a bass guitar player (especially reggae/ dub) if he would prefer playing with the best headphones in the world or a cheap loud 1KW amp....

Not saying it's ideal; just that it does the job.

asnor

@CalCutta said:

+1 not to mention most headphones that produce deep bass do so at the neglect of other frequencies in the mix, frequencies that are hard to produce out of those headphones in any situation (see Beats Audio)

I think my idea of deep bass is probably not as deep as yours. Either way, I wouldn't recommend anything so exaggerated as Beats.

Tarekith

@eustressor said:

Nothing beats a decent set of monitors, 'cept maybe a decent set of monitors in an acoustically treated room. But headphones are OK. I used to play bass in a band where everyone wore headphones and had their own mixing station and a mic. Best rehearsal experience I ever had. And if a body likes to mix with subwoofers, why not?

The important thing is not what you hear in your studio. It's what others hear in their living rooms, cars and headphones. That's where I go to find the chest-thumping bass in my mixes. I believe regularly referencing your mix on real world equipment and comparing it to genre-related commercial mixes is the single most crucial mixing step in home recording.

That and recognizing the signs of ear fatigue and calling it a day so you can start back up with fresh ears later. FWIW.

Well said!