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<blockquote data-quote="andy craig" data-source="post: 40880" data-attributes="member: 502">Re: Nice article on why some sounds hurt more than othersInteresting read,I had a &quot;hurtful&quot; audio experience when I was&nbsp; called on to mix monitors for a Scottish act. It was a sort of modern&nbsp; pipe band with some synthesisers playing drones and maybe a bass player,&nbsp; some vocals and about thirty bagpipers. The room was about a 2000&nbsp; seater with quite a bit of wood and plaster. Monitor position stage left&nbsp; under a balcony. Being that close to 30 bagpipes is quite something;&nbsp; they&#039;re loud with a lot of energy at the &quot;hurty&quot; frequencies. The&nbsp; interesting thing was that they would start each song with a skirl of&nbsp; the pipes, which would be like an all-out assault on my eardrums, then&nbsp; the bass and synths would kick in with some low end and then&nbsp; the&nbsp; painful aspect of the pipes would reduce markedly. Same, if not&nbsp; greater,&nbsp; SPL arriving at my ears, but remarkably less offensive with a&nbsp; fuller spectral content than the pipes by themselves.What I learnt from the experience was, that if your mix isn&#039;t sounding that great, just turn the bass up and it will instantly improve. Works for me.Chur,Andy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="andy craig, post: 40880, member: 502"] Re: Nice article on why some sounds hurt more than others Interesting read, I had a "hurtful" audio experience when I was called on to mix monitors for a Scottish act. It was a sort of modern pipe band with some synthesisers playing drones and maybe a bass player, some vocals and about thirty bagpipers. The room was about a 2000 seater with quite a bit of wood and plaster. Monitor position stage left under a balcony. Being that close to 30 bagpipes is quite something; they're loud with a lot of energy at the "hurty" frequencies. The interesting thing was that they would start each song with a skirl of the pipes, which would be like an all-out assault on my eardrums, then the bass and synths would kick in with some low end and then the painful aspect of the pipes would reduce markedly. Same, if not greater, SPL arriving at my ears, but remarkably less offensive with a fuller spectral content than the pipes by themselves. What I learnt from the experience was, that if your mix isn't sounding that great, just turn the bass up and it will instantly improve. Works for me. Chur, Andy. [/QUOTE]

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