Re: To bass manage or not to bass manage
Good discussion, Tom. I'd like to see your place some time.
Most of what you said makes sense, although I have a couple nits:
"if you employ bass re-direct and send things into the Lfe" ---If you are referring to bass management and not the routing of low end to the lfe track, then actually you're sending it to the subwoofer which happens to carry the lfe track.
As you pointed out, a satellite + sub is not the same as a truly full-range monitor, but in a properly callibrated system, I still would never turn off my sub regardless of whether it's going to a dub stage or not. Maybe others do it differently, but I prefer to make my own decisions about that bottom octave before anyone else gets their hands on it.
Just my $.02.
Brad
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