midrange and treble question??

[simon3102000]

Hi this is most probably gonna be a dumbass question. Been listening to a bit of dubstep and a friend says dubstep has hardly any midrange and its all bass and treble?? This doesnt sound right to me because isnt treble just adjusting the sound of the midrange? Is it possible for music to have no midrange and just have bass and treble?

 

[Al ears]

yes it is

 

[The_Lhc]

simon3102000: isnt treble just adjusting the sound of the midrange?

I can't even work out what that means.

If you look at it very crudely bass is all frequencies below a certain point, treble is all frequencies above a different point. Midrange is the bit between the two.

Imagine yourself kicking a bass drum, and then hitting a cymbal. Voila, bass and treble with no midrange.

To answer your question though, I've no idea what dubstep is.

 

[simon3102000]

Alears:yes it is

yes it can just have bass and treble

or yes treble is just the midrange?

Isnt midrange vocals, instruments etc so what the hell is treble lol

 

[Andrew Everard]

the_lhc:Imagine yourself kicking a bass drum, and then hitting a cymbal. Voila, bass and treble with no midrange

Whereas a viola is definitely midrange.

 

[Al ears]

Yes it can just have bass and treble.

Its all about frequencies not what produced the sound in the first place.

 

[simon3102000]

Alears:

Yes it can just have bass and treble.

Its all about frequencies not what produced the sound in the first place.

Ok cool, so if it had drums that would be midranged aswell as vocals unless the vocals went over a certain freqauncy then that would mean it was treble, interesting.

 

[The_Lhc]

Somebody posted a link to a very interesting chart of what instruments fit into which frequency range, along with vocals etc, that would probably be of some use at this juncture.

 

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