Comments on: How to place a subwoofer in your recording studio. http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/05/09/how-to-place-a-subwoofer-in-your-recording-studio/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:20:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: UK GRITS http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/05/09/how-to-place-a-subwoofer-in-your-recording-studio/comment-page-1/#comment-1131 UK GRITS Fri, 30 May 2008 17:24:14 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=579#comment-1131 Paul White of Sound on Sound magazine said to "put the subwoofer IN your mix chair"... Makes sense as some rooms just have crazy modes everywhere. Played at a pub recently where there was NO BASS on the dancefloor - move away from the centre of the room and too much bass appeared from nowhere! It is OK to dance 'IN' a wall of subs - bass won't trash your ears. Just don't dance in front of Mid/Tops - keep them above the heads of punters. A lot UK venues have the tweeters too low, and people at the front get destroyed! Stay Funky, James www.thegrits.co.uk Paul White of Sound on Sound magazine said to “put the subwoofer IN your mix chair”…
Makes sense as some rooms just have crazy modes everywhere. Played at a pub recently where there was NO BASS on the dancefloor – move away from the centre of the room and too much bass appeared from nowhere!

It is OK to dance ‘IN’ a wall of subs – bass won’t trash your ears. Just don’t dance in front of Mid/Tops – keep them above the heads of punters. A lot UK venues have the tweeters too low, and people at the front get destroyed!

Stay Funky, James http://www.thegrits.co.uk

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]]> By: baphomet_irl http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/05/09/how-to-place-a-subwoofer-in-your-recording-studio/comment-page-1/#comment-997 baphomet_irl Fri, 09 May 2008 16:07:11 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=579#comment-997 i still dont even have proper monitors yet :s - i have Beyer Dynamics DT770 PRO cans, I know the limitations of headphones, esp in regards to staging and obviously bass, but I live in a fully attached house and can't really make massively loud noises at night :(. (trust me due to my already fairly damaged hearing from listening to music way too loud when I was young and dancing beside (if not actually in) speaker stacks at concerts/clubs, it is necessary for me to turn speakers up fairly loud : | ) I intend to eventually get some form of Genelecs when we move house someday. oh yeh sorry a question: what is working out/handling the crossover between your monitors and the bass bin? - or do you just turn off some kindof bass switch on the monitors when the subwoofer is on? (I remember seeing that on a pair of speakers in SOS i think)... i still dont even have proper monitors yet :s – i have Beyer Dynamics DT770 PRO cans, I know the limitations of headphones, esp in regards to staging and obviously bass, but I live in a fully attached house and can’t really make massively loud noises at night :(. (trust me due to my already fairly damaged hearing from listening to music way too loud when I was young and dancing beside (if not actually in) speaker stacks at concerts/clubs, it is necessary for me to turn speakers up fairly loud : | )

I intend to eventually get some form of Genelecs when we move house someday.

oh yeh sorry a question: what is working out/handling the crossover between your monitors and the bass bin? – or do you just turn off some kindof bass switch on the monitors when the subwoofer is on? (I remember seeing that on a pair of speakers in SOS i think)…

]]> By: J http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/05/09/how-to-place-a-subwoofer-in-your-recording-studio/comment-page-1/#comment-994 J Fri, 09 May 2008 12:24:53 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=579#comment-994 Great advice! Thanks! p.s. - I found that placing a half dozen boxes of fresh donuts on top of my subwoofer greatly improves the "sweet spot". ;-) Great advice! Thanks!

p.s. – I found that placing a half dozen boxes of fresh donuts on top of my subwoofer greatly improves the “sweet spot”.
;-)

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