Bass vs Treble

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For as long as I can remember, I've been obsessed with Bass, but I've recently met some self-confessed "treble fiends", and I just don't get it. With the bass turned down and the treble up, it seems like half the music is missing. Your wisdom please, ILM folks. This pointless question has been playing on my mind....

― frownland, Saturday, 14 December 2002 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Rhythm, The Rebel....."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 December 2002 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the bass to be as low as possible, and treble as high as possible. I hate thudding noises, and such noises are most unwelcome when I'm playing my favourite afternoon nap music.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 14 December 2002 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

bass

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 14 December 2002 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Can I further cloud the argument by saying that I'm a midrange girl?

Too much thud is annoying, but too much treble gives me listener fatigue. I hear too much treble a lot since I'm a girl (=better high-end hearing) and young (=haven't lost high-end hearing). I think it's funny that matters of sound (mixing, producing, club sound, radio) tend to be so male-dominated because so often these guys have blown out whatever high-end hearing they had to begin with and so they produce a mix that sounds great to them but unbearable tinny to me.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 14 December 2002 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

High fuckin' mids boosted everywhere, what the fuck did you expect me to say?

― dave q, Saturday, 14 December 2002 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Most high-end pre-amps don't even have tone controls. I need bass *and* treble!

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 14 December 2002 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

bass ass. im down with plastilina mosh

― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Saturday, 14 December 2002 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Treble is shit. You can make any old casiotone sound ten times fatter by cutting the treble off and leaving the mids as is while boosting the bass. Treble people = acoustic guitar people = people completely unlike me.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Saturday, 14 December 2002 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Too much treble is a drag -- my ears are pretty sensitive to high frequencies, and most of the time super-trebly production feels a bit like looking at a great painting under million-watt floodlights. There are at least some occasions where ridiculous amounts of bass can be a good thing, but generally I prefer bass that fills the room, rather than pounds it.

I like the mids too, especially the low mids. Low pass filters make me happy.

― Phil (phil), Saturday, 14 December 2002 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

My Winamp equalizer is set to "Rock" = loud bass and treble, low midrange -- it sounds perfect no matter what song I'm playing.

Although I do change the treble/bass controls on my speaker depending on the mood I'm in.

― Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 14 December 2002 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Too much trebble hurts me in a car. Bass.

― original bgm, Saturday, 14 December 2002 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

argh, that's "treble"!!

― original bgm, Saturday, 14 December 2002 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

when the rhythm is the bass and the rest is treble I say "woo!"

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 14 December 2002 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Treble people = acoustic guitar people

Half my CD collection is made upt of sonic walls of earpiercing buzzsaw guitars, without any noticable bass. Treble = necro sound!

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 14 December 2002 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck it. I turn 'em BOTH all the way up.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Sunday, 15 December 2002 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I know that with the appropriate dollops of Hell in a guitar amp, the treble, mid, and bass should all be turned up all the way, as well as volume and gain. There need's to be a Hell-O-Meter on guitar amps, so you can use 1 dollop in soft parts, and all 7 dollops in loud parts.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Sunday, 15 December 2002 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

11, surely...

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 15 December 2002 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

You people are all nuts. The spatialization of sound is in the high range. Bass is omnidirectional - that's why you only need one subwoofer. So you hear stereo effects, echoes, dub effects, etc better with the treble up.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 16 December 2002 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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