[Modus]

Originally Posted by Neblix

ATH M50s are bass enhancing headphones.

Most indeededly they are, but they aren't the only high-end system I've listened to Pendulum on. With our home theater the majority of songs have a clean, tight bass. Some songs didn't though. Some songs sounded kind of terrible.

[Neblix]

I think when Rozovian says high end listening, he means gear intended for monitoring/mixing. Flat response, non-colored etc.

Home theater doesn't fit that bill at all.

[Anorax]

Originally Posted by Neblix

I think when Rozovian says high end listening, he means gear intended for monitoring/mixing. Flat response, non-colored etc.

Home theater doesn't fit that bill at all.

Unless of course your home theater equipment is built of flat-response equipment and/or custom-tailored to counteract the natural resonance of whatever room it's installed in, but that's very unlikely.

now as to what the article says, it's true, the Pendulum bass is very (VERY) inorganic and surgical, but it's also somewhat trademark in the way they do it (frequency-sculpting-wise).

It’s a highly distinctive sound, and the danger of copying something this specialised is that you end up just sounding like a bad parody.

I read through this and I realize it doesn't say what I'm trying to say, but I can't figure out how to say it. Whatever.

[Argle]

Originally Posted by Modus

I was reading articles today about Pendulum and how to achieve their bass sound when I came across a certain side comment an author made...

He said that you may not want to replicate their bass because it sounds inorganic and surgical. Well I didn't really get that. It's true their bass sound is completely unnatural, but that sound is absolute sex to me. Then I started thinking.. is that why Pendulum never caught on in a truly en masse fashion? They're too "electronic"? I always felt surprised Pendulum didn't drop a bomb on popular music, but I guess that's just my potentially bad taste.

Do you think unyielding, unnatural, brickwalled bass is bad in some way? Even if it's just your taste, I'm curious as to why or why not.

It sounds like Pendulum is having a bit of a joke on people, trying to prevent them from copying their bass sound in a self-effacing way. "Oh, our bass sound sucks, don't bother trying to copy it. *snicker*"

[Modus]

Originally Posted by Neblix

I think when Rozovian says high end listening, he means gear intended for monitoring/mixing. Flat response, non-colored etc.

Home theater doesn't fit that bill at all.

*10 second sigh*

ok.

Originally Posted by Argle

It sounds like Pendulum is having a bit of a joke on people, trying to prevent them from copying their bass sound in a self-effacing way. "Oh, our bass sound sucks, don't bother trying to copy it. *snicker*"

I don't think they've called their own bass sound crappy but whatever they're doing, there haven't been many soundalikes.