I'm talking about tonal balance in terms of volume and EQ...

why the lows are usually higher in volume with a slight decline towards the highs?

is it because lows are harder to hear?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise

 

Edit: Sorry, misunderstanded something.

 

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The actual real reason for this is frequency dependant loudness perception of human hearing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour

And a freuency distriution like the one shown in the picture is something humans therefore find "balanced" or mixed well. That's why most curves look similar to this one.

 

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The reasoning for this explanation is wrong.

 

Set the slope of the analyzer to 4.5db. Then you will see why!

 

I disagree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_noise

 

thanks for the links but can you please also summarize why the low's need to be louder? i'm sorry for being too bored to read it but its also kinda tough for me right now

 

I disagree. grey noize is just noise based on a certain mathematical formula, which in result has a simnilar frquency distribution than the one of equal loudness curves.

 

i don't think i understand what i need to do, i don't know how to do that

 

Start learning to read the acutal loudness curve und you understand why. it's all in tere

 

depends on way you measure it

 

On the top of span is a box called "Slope". Enter the value 4.5db in the box to tilt the displayed frequency response.

Human hearing is not linear (see fletcher munson). Low frequencies need far more energy to be perceived by humans as equally loud as high frequencies. If you tilt the slope of the analyzer by 4.5db, the frequency response will be displayed as the human ear/brain perceives it.

 

It doesn't need to be louder, it just sounds better when it has more energy. From wiki:
'In pink noise, there is equal energy in all octaves ... of frequency. In terms of power at a constant bandwidth, pink noise falls off at 3 dB per octave.'

This drop of 3dB per octave results in a falling curve.

And since 'normal' songs sound good when their freq response is close to a pink noise...

 

They meanwhile adopted their maiden names and are now called Robinson-Dadson.

 

right, but that doesn't matter at all here. because this is not about the loudness in the sense of dynamics and sound pressure level, but about the logarithmic balancing of sound energy over the audible frequency spectrum.