Where do you guys cut your sub bass?

[Lambox]

How low do you let your sub bass go? I've been working on a few tracks where some of the notes my bassline hit are as low as 41Hz or so.

Now, I understand a lot of subwoofers don't go that low. I guess maybe a better question would be, for the most part, how low of frequencies can most subwoofers produce?

How low do you guys let your frequencies go?

[Nephew]

I cut out anything below 35hz myself, and I've noticed there is a difference between 35hz and 40hz. But I would let the mastering engineer worry about that as he'll most likely put a filter at the start of his chain the cut out anything below a certain amount.

[Nephew]

I'd also like to add that I do have a sub for my monitoring setting up so maybe that's why I can tell the difference.

[padi_04]

30Hz

[Lambox]

I'd also like to add that I do have a sub for my monitoring setting up so maybe that's why I can tell the difference.

My Sennheisers can hit pretty low notes (up to and including around 35Hz), I just wasn't sure how low you should go, considering most people don't have expensive studio woofers/headphones/etc

[Nephew]

Well, are you making your stuff for people to listen to at home/on their ear buds, or are you making it to be played in a club?

And while your headphones may be able to go that low, you really can't feel it I'd say. But that's just me.

[Lambox]

Well, are you making your stuff for people to listen to at home/on their ear buds, or are you making it to be played in a club?

Well that's what I mean. If I'm working on the assumption that people could potentially be listening to my tracks on a variety of different equipment. Where, ideally, should the bass lie (in terms of frequency) in order to be the best for the most amount of people and situations?

[Nephew]

I think it depends on who your audience is. I make my stuff to be played out by DJs on big systems, so I engineer them that way.

If you expecting a lot of people to be listening to it on their laptop or iPod, then you would more than likely add a bit of distortion to the bass so they can actually hear it and would more than likely add more compression on the master channel than you normally would.

You could actually make two different mix downs if you really wanted to, the actual club track and then a radio mix as well so you're hitting all points

[Nephew]

Remember, by trying to please everyone you'll end up with no one happy then.

[Lambox]

I don't know man, making club and radio versions of tracks I release probably isn't real practical.

I'm not trying to please everyone, I'm trying to please the most amount of people. I can't imagine much of my music gets played out in club settings, but I'm not about to distort my basslines...

Thanks for the advice though.