Why Your Home Studio Needs A Studio Subwoofer

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Why Your Home Studio needs a Studio Subwoofer

As an experienced sound engineer, you must already own a pair of great sounding studio monitors. However, if you wish to accurately monitor lower bass frequencies that your speakers cannot reproduce (or without sufficient output), adding an active subwoofer to your monitor setup could be the answer. Whatever style of music you’re producing – Rock, Hip Hop or Jazz – a clear and accurate bass response provides a more complete picture of what your mixing, and is rather indispensable in a professional monitoring setup. Does your Recording Studio need a Subwoofer? The idea of adding a subwoofer to a monitoring setup is nothing new, however it is still accompanied with a few misconceptions. Supplementing your studio setup with a subwoofer is more about expanding the spectrum of frequencies you can accurately monitor. It’s not about boosting the bass in your studio (and making it sound like a dance club), but rather about gaining access to low frequencies that your setup (and the songs you’re working on) can output. Subwoofers not only fill out the sound of small speakers in a home studio, they are also extremely useful for mixing, mastering, and video post-production work. That’s because they extend the range of your system to reveal the ultra-low frequencies that most monitors can’t reproduce. However, it is vital to calibrate your subwoofer with your L/R mains to provide the right amount of bass. You want to avoid doing more harm than good to your music by throwing off the accuracy of your system with too much low-end or having it out of phase with your system.

Choosing a Subwoofer By and large, studio monitor manufacturers also sell subwoofers for that particular line of speakers, so that should be your first choice. A matching subwoofer ensures that the entire system was designed to work together, and the sub has been tuned to provide exactly what your monitors are missing. But if


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