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    Default bass v mid-bass

    This may be a question for Dave F. What is considered mid-bass and what is considered bass in terms of Hertz. I see a lot of posts about mid-bass that are in the Hertz area I'd consider bass. Any body have a good definition?

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    I think I read somewhere that mid-bass is 80Hz to 200Hz.....and that has been the definition I have used.

    Hope I am right.
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    I did some web searching and found multiple places defining it as 100-400Hz which covers a range of about two octaves.

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    Along the same lines... what part of the recording can be called midbass? For instance is a tuba bass or midbass... is a low male vocal bass or midbass... that sort of thing. Also what are some examples of where midbass stops and treble starts?

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    This page has the best diagram I could find in some quick google work: http://home.tir.com/~ms/concepts/concepts.html

    I have a physics text here with a similar diagram showing the ranges of strings and saxophones above the piano keys, but it doesn't also show the frequencies like the one above.

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    I just found this site: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/

    Some really cool detailed info on the sound production of different instruments.

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    Thanks Brad,

    With a quick scan of the graph of musical instruments it appears that the range of the trombone approximately covers the 100-400Hz area that is considered mid-bass. Interesting. Getting late but am going to spend some more time on the links you provided.

    Randy

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    Great info here...

    There are really no formal frequency range specifications for the descriptive terms of bass/midbass/mids/highs etc. For my own descriptions, I use the following... bass / midbass / midrange / highs. Each description is a 2 to 3 octave range. In some cases, I like to differentiate the midrange into 3 additional descriptions, low-mids, middle-mids, and high-mids.

    Bass --> bottom 2 octaves (16Hz - 63Hz) (often rounded to 16Hz to 100Hz)
    Midbass --> next 3 octaves (63Hz - 500Hz)
    Midrange --> next 3 octaves (500Hz - 4kkHz) (most vocals)
    Highs --> top 2 octaves (4kHz and up)

    The link Brad provided is an excellent example of what frequency range musical instruments and vocals cover.
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    Mid Bass? Isn't that the same thing as the 'mid-drift'?
    Dave Nelms

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    Came across this and thought it might help.


    Last edited by Quinn; 05-31-2005 at 09:42 AM.

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