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Originally Posted by Darm  Well I heard this from one techno guy. He was talking about mastering, and he said that he is using a 12db/oct hi pass filter on 32 to 35 Hz on the whole mix, since you pretty much can't find a system that really gets that low.
Since I do have a little studio, and most of the guys I record don't have money/time to get their stuff mastered, but want to hear it pretty loud, I throw a 3-4 db of compression and about 1 to 3 db's of limitting on top of that.
Now I tried putting a digirack hpf before the limitter, and I was able to drive the track hotter, without hearing any differences!
So I just wanted to know if any of you guys think about this little tweak? |
It's nothing new... most of the bass below i believe 35hz anyway would be felt more than heard. When they cut vinyl they have to run a highpass over it so the needle wouldn't jump out the grooves. Filter out freq you don't hear and you will get your tracks louder. Most Bass drums don't need anything above 3 for instance... (It's actually lower than that.)
What I would do, however, is to filter the ones off every offending track and then they would never make it the master bus.