Learning from the 808 and 909 bassdrum boom.

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Learning from the 808 and 909 bassdrum boom.

Here’s an interesting picture: It’s the 808 bassdrum boom.

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The classic 808 BD sounds and feels like like crazy low bass but in fact it’s only down to 45Hz with most of the energy centered around 50 - 75Hz. Not as hard to reproduce as you might think, even with moderately cheapo speakers. Which is probably why it’s so popular a sound to use and riff from!

Moral: Concentrate your bass energy in the 50Hz-75Hz range and you’ll sound golden on most soundsystems.

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^^That was like a ‘Fact Of The Day’ … short, sweet and really informative.

Love It.

I think you should have a little post like that for us once a week.

FATLIMEYS ‘Heres Something Interesting…’ Post of the Week.

I would subscribe to that thread i would.

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+1, but I find that more often than not Fatlimey’s posts give me a headache. I mean that in the most respectful way possible. :open_mouth: It’s just painfully obvious your smarter than I am, but I can make a mean tamale so I think we’re even. :smiley:

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Oh yeah, it has to be a short and informative piece. Not some 5 page ramble about hardware programming debugging YAWN…

Dont ya just hate clever people… i dont even know what ‘hardware programming debugging’ is i just copied it.

j/k

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nice! short and sweet and to the point.