09-07-2017, 07:18 PM
Due to some events I used headphones for some time. Now I'm back with the HS5s and the HS8 subwoofer and now have proper monitor stands instead of having the HS propped up with books on the desk. I listened to Bitwig sketches I have, to Mixbus mixes and to Soundcloud uploads. The SC uploads seems to have lost a part of the bass frequency range. When the same mix is played in Mixbus32C there's more bass. Both sounds good in the headphones though.
That leaves me with a great puzzlement about what people actually hear of my music out there. So the question is, how do you calibrate the monitoring speakers so that they yield a 'best' sound that represents a fair standard of what people, using fair audio systems, can hear ? Each speaker has a volume control and the subwoofer has cutoffs for itself and for the sends to the two other speakers. I do not know at which level the subwoofer should be set for instance so that it reflects a bass that 'makes sense'.
Also, what I currently do is to have the wav file from the final Mixbus stereo export converted to ogg then uploaded to SC. In that conversion and in the processing done by SC (if any, looks like they're not doing much), could there be a loss in frequencies in the bass range ?
Cheers.
That leaves me with a great puzzlement about what people actually hear of my music out there. So the question is, how do you calibrate the monitoring speakers so that they yield a 'best' sound that represents a fair standard of what people, using fair audio systems, can hear ? Each speaker has a volume control and the subwoofer has cutoffs for itself and for the sends to the two other speakers. I do not know at which level the subwoofer should be set for instance so that it reflects a bass that 'makes sense'.
Also, what I currently do is to have the wav file from the final Mixbus stereo export converted to ogg then uploaded to SC. In that conversion and in the processing done by SC (if any, looks like they're not doing much), could there be a loss in frequencies in the bass range ?
Cheers.