Posted by Billy on February 01, 2000 at 14:36:08:
In Reply to: 70's bass posted by Silent Bob on January 31, 2000 at 03:05:17:
It's not lower frequencys that make a
bass sound fat. It's the medium that it's
recorded to and how you can get it to sit
in the mix (arrangement) that makes it sound fat.
It is impossible to get a truly FAT bass sound
like those great sixties and seventies recordings
if you are recording to a 16-bit 44.1kz medium.
Analog tape colors the sound of a bass in a
pleasing musical kind of way. If you look at a
frequency spectrum analizer or a graphic of a
sampled wave form from a bass that was originally
recorded on analog tape you will see a fuzzy haze
surrounding it. The medium is altering the
original signal. It is adding some frequencys
and subtracting others. The tape recorder and
the tape being used is what determines the type
and amount of coloring that is applied to the
original signal. On a lot of seventies recordings
the bass sounds huge, but their is very little, if
any deep subwoofer frequency information on these
records. Deeper bass does not mean fatter bass.
- Actually, I use both computer AND 1/2 open-reel Silent Bob 02:49:39 2/02/00
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- Re: 70's bass, oh dear! JC 16:57:45 2/01/00
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- Re: 70's bass Bananahead 16:39:27 2/01/00
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