Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System?


How do you know if it is the recording or your system?

By way of example with a focus on bass, for some songs I like the amount of bass, then another song I feel like it needs more bass to hit harder, and then another song I feel like there is too much bass and it is boomy. Does that ever happen to you? I feel like I am getting the treble sorted out, but going back and forth on the bass.

Can anyone listen to the first 20 second of the song Temptation by Diana Krall from the Girl In The Other Room album and let me know if there is a bass component that is a bit much? The vocals sound good so no issue there.

Thanks.

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Showing 1 response by yoyoyaya

@OP. There are two possibilities here. The first is that you have room problems. If you have, depending on the key of the song and the bassline, some tracks may sound right and others wrong.

The second is just the fact that depending on the choices made in the recording and mastering, bass sound can differ quite radically across different recordings. Also, a double bass sounds fundamentally different to an electric bass even though they have the same nominal frequency response (like for like in terms of four string basses).

Assuming there aren't equipment or room problems, there is no "right" amount of bass - it varies.