Well, you say that - but again, in all seriousness, what makes the Taurus sound so "deep" is not that it's billowing out a sine wave at 30Hz: it's more to do with the way the two VCOs roll around each other and their upper harmonics growl and mildly distort between (pulling a figure out of my ass here ;) something like 80 to 250Hz... psychoacoustically it makes for a hugely deep and solid sounding bass, cos your brain generates elephantine phantom fundamentals. Maybe :)
David
--- In PolySix@yahoogroups.com, "chipaudette" <chipaudette@...> wrote:
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> I'm not going to deny that line of thinking in any way at all. It is super deep, which means that it's inaudible without a lot of power and mass to make it happen.
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> What it is good for is finally being able to (try to) compete with the prog rocker guy with the Taurus I bass pedals the next time that you're playing the Meadowlands or Wembley Stadium. To hang with that kinda beast, you gotta get DEEP ;)
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> Chip
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> --- In PolySix@yahoogroups.com, "feline1973" <feline1@> wrote:
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> > Not wanting to be an old sourpuss,
> > but adding 6dB boosts to something at 30Hz is usually a good way to totally ruin a mix :) It is very hard to accurately hear stuff down there - forget trying it on headphones... and forget most speakers... and the modal bass response of most rooms will totally muck up what you're hearing too... move your chair two feet to the left and you'll hear something different.
> > I'd guess that all you'd be doing to the Polysix with this mod is making it eat up headroom in a mix or on a PA, to no good musical purpose (and very likely to a lot of musical detriment)
> > On the other hand, for those into Extreme Noise Terror and the 'brown sound', it would be fantastic :-D
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> > David
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