“With any acoustic instrument that you record, you have some kind of ambience happening. Any electric instrument, when it’s direct, doesn’t have any ambience at all. So for me the challenge is not to try to simulate the acoustic sound, but to simulate some of the aspects of an acoustic sound.”- bassist Michael Manring
In equipment that tests sound pressure levels, employing a curve that is basically flat with a 3 dB drop at 31.5 Hz and a 3 dB roll-off starting at 8 kHz. It is designed to mimic the way we process sound at higher sound pressure levels. (See also a-weighted).
