drTStingray
Well-known member
Two or three times recently I've come across the strange (in my opinion) situation of sound techs trying to mix bass guitar so that the bass drum sound and the bass guitar volumes are about the same. This tends to create the overall effect that the rest of the drums are high in the mix, and consequently so are guitars (there's a surprise!!) whilst the bass tends to be a bit lost.
Having listened carefully to a range of music, this idea does seem to replicate early sixties record mixes and certainly doesn't work with lots of other eras and genres of music (you get some very peculiar sounding disco and R and B with this) - the common thread with these techs has been fairly recently out of 'sound tech' college, where presumably early sixties analogue is flavour of the month (along with all the other 'vintage' paraphenalia like guitars and amps).
Has anybody else come across this sort of thing and what are your veiws on it - low in the mix rumble certainly doesn't bring the best out of bass played on, say, a Stingray IMO!
Having listened carefully to a range of music, this idea does seem to replicate early sixties record mixes and certainly doesn't work with lots of other eras and genres of music (you get some very peculiar sounding disco and R and B with this) - the common thread with these techs has been fairly recently out of 'sound tech' college, where presumably early sixties analogue is flavour of the month (along with all the other 'vintage' paraphenalia like guitars and amps).
Has anybody else come across this sort of thing and what are your veiws on it - low in the mix rumble certainly doesn't bring the best out of bass played on, say, a Stingray IMO!
