24 Oct
2011
24 Oct
'11
8:17 p.m.
On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 20:41 +0300, alexander wrote:
Imho, it doesn't really mather that much what
speakers you use to mix
with as long os they have reasonable frequency response which most
loudspeakers today have (I use consumergrade hifi, Wharfedale 9.1's)..
The perception of sound is subjective, eg I have no idea how you or
anybody else percieve the sound of, say Sting in a pair of genelecs or
any other brand. Something that I do recommend tho is to often reference
listen to your favorite tracks when mixing, _not_ to copy sound but just
for the sake of sanity checking levels and reverbs and such... also
remember to let mixing take time.. mix a track till you like it, take a
break from the song for a couple of hours, preferably let it cure over
night.. Then the next listen is the most critical seconds of it all,
cause now you have fresh ears, note anything that stands out on a paper
and fix it after you listen through the song once.
Yeah, you can mix on anything if you have some idea of what your
monitors are doing, and what your room is doing.
Of course the problem with that, or listening to a favorite track for
comparison, is that we can really have no way of knowing what our
monitors and rooms are doing without some analysis. And we have no way
of knowing what our reference CD is doing because we have no idea what
quirks were in that CD's mix and mastering rooms.
At the end of the day, I do use a few very well mixed CDs as a
reference, and I have to hope/trust they are reasonably flat.
:-)
The one real gotcha that is going to hurt you is low end. If you have
monitors with 6 inch woofers, they simply can't reproduce the low end,
and you could get into trouble.
Having said that, inexperienced recordists are going to have lots of
other problems with their tracks, as well, like phase issues and such,
so I say just hang some mics and have some fun.
If the music is so important to you that you want and expect
professional results, hire a professional.
Rich...