I presume you meant sit by the bass bins? No, I don't lol.
Have you ever been in a busy club? If you want a club hit, 9 times out of 10 you want to have the lead as a low freq/bass synth. Something that actually travels further than the walls of the room you're in.
Even in a upmarket night club you'll struggle to hear the high frequencies of a track. Why? Clubs usually EQ to boost the bass to near-inaudible levels to bring people through the door and other marketing reasons. But you probably already know that...
I admit the "You will not hear high end" may be a bit OTT, but it's not something you'll notice in clubs as much as the bass. And for a track that lacks such bass, it's going to be a very odd (mainstream) club beat.
With out derailing this thread too much what your saying is kind of missjointed truth and understanding.
Although a lead may be matched/layered with a low frequency sub, the lead will still have lots of mid frequencies. Sub is nothing more than a rumble with out higher frequencies to match it. If you want something to be punchy it needs them. Think of a punchy kick, it's the fast transition from higher to lower frequency in the initial attack that makes it exactly that. I'm interested in hearing these only low frequency as a lead tracks.
In no venue should you struggle to hear the high frequencies. Some venues don't have room fill so unless you're on the dance floor with the speakers pointing at you, thanks to the omni directional nature of bass, yes you're right, bass is what you will mainly hear. Some venues rely on the bleed from the dance floor to cover other areas. These are badly designed venues and good engineers work hard to get round this. In a busier night club you might get pushed into corridors, areas not covered, corners (bass build up in corners) and lets not forget the more bodies in a venue the more the higher frequencies are absorbed (turned into heat). Again engineers work hard to combat all this, carefully placing extra speakers with the correct delay times and horn dispersion.
Yes clubs EQ the bass louder or have more power (amp/speakers) in that region. Void Acoustics recommend a 10db boost as a starting point in their system installation guides. However, Set a system for an old 00's club rap tune to have lots of bass and if a DJ already riding the system mixes in Talk Dirty, with out turning the bass knob on the DJ mixer down, expect to lose a bass bin or 2.
Think your wording should of been, "Have you ever been in a busy club? If you want a club hit, 9 times out of 10 you want your lead to have a low freq/bass synth. Something that actually travels further than the walls of the room you're in". Then I would agree with you, lol! Apart from the alternative, the sub under the kick and no bass in the lead at all.
Back to this track, yes it needs more Bass to be a current club rap track.
One last point, you feel the lower frequencies of the bass, it's the higher frequencies of the bass that you're actually hearing, it's the combination of both in balance that makes it so f'n nice!!! Turn off the mid tops in a club, all you'll hear is the place rattling itself to bits, bottles on the bar, door frames, light fittings, anything not firmly joined/clamped/sealed.
