I hear this tip thrown around a lot, but in practice I'm not so sure.
First of all, I always hear the justifcation is that it "frees up headroom". Everytime I've done it, it actually does the opposite, it adds gain to my sub unless I use a linear phase EQ, and even then it adds a tiny bit of gain. I think this is due to creating phase point with sharp EQ curves on an EQ.
Second, using ozone's matching EQ, A/Bing my track in which I highpassed the sub at ~30hz with about a dozen pro tracks in a similar style, the matching EQ ramps way up to the bottom. When I remove the highpass this goes away.
Basically, even with my subpac highpassing my track/sub bass doesn't feel any different, it sure as hell doesn't sound any different, doesn't free up any headroom (unless I'm doing it wrong), and all the pro tracks I A/B (talking skrillex, zomboy, feed me, kill the noise) all have information down there.
Submitted September 29, 2016 at 09:56PM by distortionwhat https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/555gzg/is_it_really_advisable_to_highpass_your_sub/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Thursday, September 29, 2016