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I.D. interview in K Mag

July 14

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K Mag are loving us lot right now.  Here's an interview with me, to coincide with the release of my Mustang EP on Sub Slayers.  Looking back over it, I sort of feel like I should've gone into more detail on the old midrange/sub quandary.  I remember a few years back, chatting to a record shop owner in Vienna, who told me that he always finished his club night with our track 'Hood Thang' - and the next day, people would come into the shop, desperate to find out what the track was.  Then they'd listen on headphones, and decide not to buy it.  Was this because the bass is all sub and only really comes into its own on a system? Or maybe it only sounds good when you're pissed.  Hey ho.  Anyway, read the interview here.  And don't forget my summer mix, embedded below:

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Jul 15, 2010
MatthewHiscock said...
These midrangey basslines that have so much mid that there's essentially no bass because the mids are taking up the entire mix, that's the point at which your music essentially becomes death metal. Oh the horror.

I find, on a purely engineering level, that it's ideal to have a bassline that's got most of its beef from 50-100hz, but with just a touch of non-sub bass (i.e. 100-250hz) because

a) it lets you can hear the tonality of the notes and any interesting melodic stuff and
b) most PA systems have distortion that increases significantly the lower you go, so it can really trash anything that only exists in that space. With a kick you don't notice it but with a bassline it can be an issue, even on serious systems like Fabric under, say, 60hz.

Of course, you make tracks bearing all that in mind, then people listen on computer speakers that cut off everything below 400hz and think "dude, that guys new shit is *boring*!"

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