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Post Subject: Tossing Off a CouplePosted by Paul S on: 9/4/2009
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One way to see how bouncy a floor may be is to put a wide basin of water on the floor and then move around.
I think I read somewhere that footfalls are centered about 5 Hz; but the typical suspended floor resonance is actually broad band, and resonance, as we think of it, is only part of the shrinking LF problem.
With respect to diagnosis, the suspended floor will simply appear to eat the LF, as opposed to "cancellations", combing, etc., and not taking typical room resonance into account.
Generally speaking, turning up the LF power will "offset" suspended floor losses, but there will usually be some frequencies that suffer less than others, and these frequencies might wind up fat after generic LF-only "bass-boost".
This is why pros use split-octave "equalization", and this method is the cheapest and easiest path to decent LF, IMO.
I would use real time equalization, since DSP undoes itself by harming the Sound for a net loss, IMO.
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