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Why scooping the mids is BAD

Doug4321

Doug4321

May 29, 2017
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#1
I came across this video. Apparently 528 Hz is key to everything. Scooping your mids loses this frequency of course e.g. the Fender Rumble contour button drops it around 670 Hz. On the other hand, 741 Hz and 440 Hz is the devil and is promoted as a plot to make everyone sick for some reason so scooping those mids could be beneficial. I’m not sure.

At any rate this video discusses this but gets a little off topic and goes on and the narrator is very insistent about something or other.

The graphics are way cool and trippy.

 
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528 Hz as a "color frequency"? Huh? You can't see electromagnetic waves (those waves that are light at MUCH higher frequencies) that operate at 528 Hz. Red light (the lowest frequency you can see), is 4.3 x 10 to the fourteenth power in Hz. If you want to know the universe's natural frequency, it's probably more related to the resonant frequency of hydrogen atoms (most of the universe is hydrogen). There, we're talking Giga Hertz - much lower than light, but much higher than what this guy is talking about.

By the way, 432 Hz (one of the previous "magic frequency" theories) is between a minor and major third away from 528. Both of these numerical theories can't be right.

The graphics are cool. The rest is fabrication, at best.
 
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Anyone who is too obsessed of losing something crucial in a common three or four band onboard EQ should just go ahead and use a 1/3rd octave graphic. In my basic home rack I have two 1/3 and two 1/2 graphics. One of the 1/2 is currently used as a house mix from my PC to my stereo receiver. Why? Well, just because.
 
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The comments deliver.
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Doug4321 said:
I came across this video. Apparently 528 Hz is key to everything. Scooping your mids loses this frequency of course e.g. the Fender Rumble contour button drops it around 670 Hz. On the other hand, 741 Hz and 440 Hz is the devil and is promoted as a plot to make everyone sick for some reason so scooping those mids could be beneficial. I’m not sure.

At any rate this video discusses this but gets a little off topic and goes on and the narrator is very insistent about something or other.

The graphics are way cool and trippy.

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I got to 1:36 and I stopped the vid.
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Gonna go get a coffee and cinnamon roll and look at the northern sky out my window.
 
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Yeah it'sort of a thing with the military industrial complex, but i don't obsess over it when playing the bass----ultrasonic weapons (USW) and microwaves.. Kind of the same when a dog hears a dog whistle...but far worse....It is an interesting concept of what certain frequencies can do

It may be crap to most of us, but be sure some rambo will find a way to make it a weapon- i just play bass and turn knobs mmmkay!
 
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