But the lows are pure, zero harmonic distortion going down to sub-audible levels.
When I get people in the mastering room and they see my towers, sometimes I think they expect a club soundsystem like, bass heavy "impressive lows" sound. True flat monitoring is not very exciting, it takes a while to get used to it. why not learn them thoroughly and a/b with other sound sources to get a solid idea of how they handle bass? I dunno, is all this editing of your monitoring good practice? 702's are quite good. Isone does seem to colour the sound more than Redline though.Īnyone have any other thoughts before I pull the trigger on Isone? Redline seems to make things too squashed in the centre and some elements become unnaturally prominent which doesn't happen with my speakers or Isone. I saw a few on here are using Redline but I found Isone does a better job at reproducing my living room listening environment. I also looked into speaker emulation plugins, primarily Redline and Isone. It's just not something I would use every day. It's immediately obvious if things are messy down there when you wear it.
I do have a Subpac, which I think does a great job of drawing your attention to sub-bass. Then one day you hear it on a proper system and it's suddenly the most significant part of the track. It seems to me that if a specific part of the spectrum is less 'present' in your day to day monitoring then your productions will have less interest in those areas because your brain won't focus on it as much. I do worry about the lack of bass 'awareness' I have with the 702s. Also don't know if it's really fixing problems with the 702s, it makes them sound a lot muddier than my hifi speakers though I don't trust those either. To be honest I was able to get 95% of the way there as an EQ8 preset so not convinced it's worth buying just for that.
It's giving the bass a huge hike (11dB at 30Hz) and making some significant tweaks from 3kHz up, which certainly dramatically alters the sound. I tried the Sonarworks trial, using the default profile for the 702s. Since I'm headphone bound 99% of the time I've been looking into options this weekend to improve how my default setup translates.