Bass Management Controller
2.M&K’S DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
Our philosophy is that exciting and lifelike sound and music reproduction takes place when your ears, in effect, become the recording microphones. Our speakers are designed to allow you to hear exactly what the microphones heard, placing you as close or as far away from the music or sound source as the recording engineer placed the microphones.
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This "homogenizing" effect may be pleasant for some music recordings, but it inaccurately reproduces both
As an audiophile recording engineer and a
Ken Kreisel
3.THE LOGIC BEHIND BASS MANAGEMENT
OBSERVATIONS by Ken Kreisel
Engineers mixing
Any studio designer will tell you that for a stereo mix environment it is crucial that the left and right monitor speakers, when in their selected studio location, have near identical bass response when measured at the mixer's position. No less is true in multichannel mixing. Proper low frequency equalization and mixing decisions are difficult, if not impossible, unless all 5.1 or more channels have the same bass frequency response at the mixers listening position.
Due to unavoidable room modes, five or more correctly placed full range speakers, (in even the most perfectly designed studio) will produce dramatically different low frequency characteristics at the mix position. This is especially true for the very crucial center channel speaker. Variations of 10 to 20dB may be measured at frequencies below 80Hz.
When the bass from all the channels is redirected into a single, PROPERLY placed subwoofer, then each and all of the multiple channels exhibits the identical bass response at the listening position, and gives surprisingly even coverage in virtually every control room. Simply stated bass management is putting an electronic bass frequency crossover (typically 80Hz) on all the channels, and redirecting the bass frequencies below 80Hz from each of the channels to a common subwoofer.
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