Re: Getting the PA levels right

"Brian Running" <brunning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm not arguing your point about people going for an atomic blast, but a
kick drum has a *lot* energy below 120Hz. If you look at an EQ curve, the
decay has as much energy between 50 and 100 as it does between 100 and
150.

Don't know how you can see that from an "EQ curve," but I guess your point
is that the predominate frequencies of the bass drum are not the very low
frequencies. Thanks for straightening me out on that, I don't know what I
was thinking.

The predominant frequency is not always the one that's most easily perceived
by our ears. This doesn't necessarily mean you should filter OUT the
predominant frequencies, but it could justify giving a little boost to a
different section of an instrument's spectrum which *is* more noticeable. If
it's not noticed, then it has no musical purpose. Our own instruments are a
perfect example. The open E sound wave completes itself around 32 (?) feet
away. We hear it, but if you filter out the higher frequencies which
constitute the finger attack & string overtones, isn't something important
lost?


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