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HairWasHere Location: USA Posts: 191	Posted - Fri Jan 04, 2002 12:53 am  Has anyone tried WAVES' "MaxxBass" plug-in (or their "Renaissance Bass" plug-in)? If anyone has, then how was it? Was it worth your money? I'm asking because I'm trying to create songs with LOTS of bass, but I don't want to blow my speakers. _________________ www.prorec.com www.r3mix.net
Graeme Member Location: Spain Posts: 4663	Posted - Fri Jan 04, 2002 3:42 pm  Quote: I'm asking because I'm trying to create songs with LOTS of bass, but I don't want to blow my speakers. Sounds like a contradiction in terms to me :-) _________________ Graeme Don't forget to join the new CEP forum at audiomastersforum
jonrose Location: USA Posts: 2901	Posted - Fri Jan 04, 2002 11:29 pm  ROFL ...somehow I don't think that was the response he was looking for, though... ;) _________________
Graeme Member Location: Spain Posts: 4663	Posted - Fri Jan 04, 2002 11:34 pm  Being a 'little' more serious about it - I thought it was a pretty daft question. If you want more bass, you compress the bottom and push the level as far as you can. If it takes out your bass drivers, then a) you'll need a new pair of speakers and b) so will any other poor sucker that played it on their system. Being really serious about it - what is it with people these days? Everyone seems to be trying to get more and more out of less and less. _________________ Graeme Don't forget to join the new CEP forum at audiomastersforum
Syntrillium M.D. Location: USA Posts: 5124	Posted - Mon Jan 07, 2002 10:55 am  Hi Hair...I tend to agree with Graeme a bit, but allow me to say this - As he mentioned, you can truly achieve the same 'bass-boost' results from within Cool Edit already, without the need for an external plugin. Using the dynamics processor, you can band-limit to 0-100hz or so and just compress (or limit) the bottom end. Then, You can also use any one of the filters to carefully boost select bass frequencies (preferably, before the compression stage, but post-compression EQ might work for you as well) ---Syntrillium, M.D. _________________
post78 Location: USA Posts: 2887	Posted - Mon Jan 07, 2002 5:53 pm  What Maxx Bass does is a bit like a harmonic exciter. If you generate a sine wave tone within cool edit at say, 90hz, and look at the analyzer, you'll see a big lump at say, 90hz. If you then add the Maxx Bass plugin effect you'll then see about a dozen lumps of harmonies to compliment that big lump of say, 90hz. It does a bit more than compression in the terms of being able to 'hear' it better, but if you want to 'feel' it better, a little compression love from CE will work just fine. Truthfully though, I love Maxx Bass and use it quite often. If you spend a lot of time in a studio, I say go for it. _________________ Answer = 1. Probably.
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