16 Jan 2017
As everyone seem to agree on, "it all depends" as usual. How many competing channels etc. And the "don´t fix if not broke"-attitude can be wise as mentioned. Still some low end can cause a lot of rumble and trouble on some bigger sound systems or sub woofers, content that you might not hear with headphones or smaller monitors (or so little as it seem no problem). But on a big system, suddenly you feel those frequencies physically.
You might want that effect to some extent or not. But that is more a question of reference listening on many systems.
One could see the low end info on a spectrum analyzer and learn to see possible problems. Some genres of music wants a lot of sub harmonics and some want it more clean there. But as said, the approach to just go wild with HF just because one learned it from a video or else, that is too limiting. One could do oneself a bad favour. Lowness is warmness when used carefully. So to choose a less steep cutting curve could be wise as well as using EQ and lowering some bass content on some channels instead of bringing the axe.
This summer I went by a festival and a Dancehall/Reggae Sound System played music outdoors. Very nice, but the bass and sub bass were causing actual physical pain (there was one more sound system at other side too with less extreme bass), so I had to leave. It might more be the problem of the guys running the system (although famous) but some tunes were worse than others, just as in really bass-heavy headphones, they tend to show which mixes have not really gotten the bass under any control at all.
I usually cut off some inhearable low end on vocals and/or recorded instruments just to be safe from environmental influences or hum from something. And as someone wrote, some synths have an extreme low sub bass that destroys all life. And it´s easy to miss that part of the spectrum.
So, as of not having the most professional equipment, I do play safe with some common sense although I hear nada.
Some filters does seem to have that upper bump right where one cuts off, so that can be a hassel with some filters (as that standard one in Logic), how it is in the SSL, at least it is not visually but it might be some bump I had not recogniced. Will look next time.