Thats why reference monitors like the NS10s or the Auratones were introduced to the pro studios to help combat this. It’s all to easy to create a mix that translates well on that system and not on others. Even with a flat system you can become biased. In which case it would then be easy to become biased based on your monitoring. Without those references, though, you have no way of knowing what neutral “sounds like”. It’s something that you’re ears will start to automatically do after a short period of time. Something that you can decisively declare as “neutral” and everything else can be measured against it. The thing is, by listening to other music regularly on the system you set yourself up a “control”. If you music sounds just as good as anything else you’ve played on it then you’s be on the money. Yes, but you don’t necessarily need “flattened” spears to make the mix translate. I found about about eight of their simulations to be useful. That’s one of my gripes with MixChecker Pro some of the speaker simulations are just bizarre. But, it would be a huge project to find the right group of “real world” listening environments. I believe that other less perfect environments are better than different sets of speakers in a great mixing room or a simulation. I’d like to try a low light or even an IR camera, but what I have works well enough. It’s fine in the daytime when there is plenty of diffuse light, but at night it requires more light than is comfortable. So, I purchased a better quality no-name camera and found that it worked much better. Initially, I tried to use my Macs built-in camera along with the BT tracker, but that proved unsatisfactory. Quite the contrary, you get less center drift when using both. They did a great job with Sensor Fusion, and I don’t find that the tracking is throw off by momentary camera disruptions. The frame rate increase when using both is totally worth it. I realize that this would be a big project, but would give the mix engineer a much better “view” into the real world than a few additional sets of smaller speakers. So, once your “mixing room” has been flattened, it makes sense to me to then provide the engineer simulations of real world listening environments, as these are the actual environments your customers will listen to your mix in. This in fact is what I see when comparing the flatness of Nx with ABS3. As Nx uses an algorithm, these acoustical anomalies can be kept under control. For that reason, I believe that mixing on a system like Nx VMR can actually be better than a real room. By doing that, your mix will sound like you want it to and will most likely fall inline with the rest of the world.Īs for mix rooms, the designers try to keep the peaks and dips to a minimum, but due to floor reflections, console surface reflections, and standing waves, it’s impossible to do. You then create your mix through this monitor EQ (the monitor EQ is NOT part of the final mix). Because my ears have been trained to see my headphones as “neutral” it still reveals a useful perspective to me.Īs most people’s auditory memory is terrible, I am a big believer in the technique of listening to recordings of music you like through your system, and then adjusting a separate monitoring EQ so that these recordings sound the way you want them to (mostly adjustments of bass and treble). It’s like it offers another perspective in a different space, essentially like using a second set of reference speakers. Plugins like NX or ARS are like icing on the cake for me while using headphones. Of course rooms themselves can contribute significantly to huge peaks or dips, which is why a good set of headphones would always be the preferred method for me in that particular situation. It’s all about points of reference, and if your ears become accustomed to hearing all music on it, than that effectively trains the ear into how things “should” sound. I’d also like to see a bigger selection of headphone calibrations as well.Īlthough, I also follow the school of thought that as long as you have decent set of speakers that are relatively flat and without any hype of huge dips in its frequency response, then as long as you’re familiar with how music sounds on it in general, then it’s enough to get the job done. I like your different monitor suggestions for NX.
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