Bass Has Its Place

[Bartrinsic]

+1. Most of what's going on with the bass is above 100 Hz, not below. If you had a setup sophisticated enough to hear only the below 100 Hz content, including a true brick wall LP filter, you'd be hard pressed to even tell the note you're playing below 80 Hz, because nearly all of the information that defines pitch and timbre is above 80 Hz. That applies to all instruments, not just stringed instruments.

Agree but I wouldn't be hard on anyone about it. I was quite surprised when I first tried a crossover with my bass, even though I've been mucking around with xovers as an amateur HiFi guy for years.

 

[Bartrinsic]

I love this place! The OP tosses out a casual, subjective lament about low bass being “slow”, and by page 2 we’ve covered HPFs, room modes, energy levels of fundamentals versus harmonics, and crossover slopes of biamped rigs.

@deadshovelhead , did you get your question answered?

Ah the lament. That's what got me started. I'll dig out one of my Dad's goofy retorts: "I resemble that remark!". I hope over-exuberance isn't the worst sin indulged here. I certainly haven't helped if I led anyone to think this is only about 'HiFi'. I hope its reassuring just to realize no-one has solved this problem--or those who think they have certainly haven't figured out how to package and sell it. We can piece together helpful toolkits, but they require lots of customization, for every different setting. And to echo a very common theme on this forum, low octave players are under served by the available products, and its partly our fault for not demanding better. What I'm trying to echo is an underlying them to a lot of threads here that definitely aren't 'HiFi'. Here's a sample controversial claim that summarizes much of what I've droned on about: "no bass player should ever buy a compression product that doesn't include both a sweepable clean blend AND a sweepable high pass" (intentionally extremist!). Darkglass is halfway there and deserves to be rewarded for it (I'm not an owner of any Darkglass products, buy may be some day soon).

 

[Bartrinsic]

Here's another worthy effort: Invalid Link Removed
Sweepable high pass, sweepable blend, high pass, blend, high pass, eighth rest, blend. If you've got it, I'll buy it.