So I'm not sure if this is the right place for this post. This isn't really mixing practice nor is it a tutorial. It's more of a confirmation of some of the knowledge I've picked up from you guys and the recording revolution site. I went to town clearing out my mixing space and placed some foam sound panels in strategic locations around the room. I also changed out my stereo with some actual monitors for mixing. I was going to bring home the adams monitors I've borrowed from a friend but I decided to leave those at the jam pad since they are way over sized for my little room. Instead I grabbed the pair of M-audio monitors that we had lying around and set them up. I don't have a sub yet like I did with my stereo, but the trade off is worth it. I went back and listened to some of the mixes I've posted here and now I see some big improvements that I need to make. Overall this is ment as a confirmation that treating a room and using actual monitors and not just a home stereo is very eye-opening, or rather ear-opening. I guess the moral of the story is, listen to what the pro's have to say...they know what they are talking about! Thanks to all those that spend the time to teach. I hope to be a good student.
What a difference!
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bryan_kilco
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Good to hear!
I really can't wait to get a house and have my own room to mix in. My situation right now is pretty bad. =/
I really can't wait to get a house and have my own room to mix in. My situation right now is pretty bad. =/
DanLights
Santa Hat Forever
Couldn't agree more
This really has to be repeated a million times for people to actually listen, we all end up learning the hard way in the end, instead of saving ourselves the trouble
medic999
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Cool man. As long as you keep your sub lows under control (high pass everything) you shouldn't have a problem not having a sub. If you are looking for the best cheap monitors I highly recommend the equator d5. I had m audio bx5a before and the quality difference is insane. And I think the equator ones are cheaper. Also you can keep an eye (rather than your ears if you have to) on the sub lows with an analyzer like voxengo span
fatalforce
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I love having those moments of clarity when you know what needs to be done. It's progression and it's a good thing!
LeSedna
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When I set up in a room in the next weeks I'm gonna record A/B clips from the listening position a way or another to have an example of what could be the improvement
bryan_kilco
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well I just ran another mix and compared it to my last few and I see I still have some set up to do. I heard something about pink noise and a spl to make sure everything is working right...not sure how that works yet. I guess I'm still getting used to not having a sub going. It ended up a bit muddy after converting to mp3 and I thought it was way bright when mixing...there's something going on with the room still, or my ears.
medic999
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Well if you want (I don't recommend it but some people do it if the room is treated right) you can get a reference microphone and calibrate the monitors. There's a free program out there that will sine run a sweep and measure the frequency response from the listening position and spit out a text file with eq settings that you can put on your master bus. I just prefer the extreme nearfield monitoring. Like a big set of headphones lol. But unless you have coaxials I don't think that would work well. you would probably get done Wierd phase discrepancies
maybe this could be a new tutorial...how to set up monitors/ room for mixing. Unless it's already written and I just missed it.
