gush
Where is that speedo pic
Yes Sir!!!
Space - The Final Frontier.
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gush
Where is that speedo pic
Your space is impressive.
Thanks! It’s been one little, incremental change after another, but I guess it’s getting there!
Alnus Rubra
Loving nature’s wonders
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In my case, both my mixes and my music qualify as 'poop'.I thought mixing is musical reflection of the recording made
It's pretty nice, all things considered. When I cut vocals or acoustic instruments, I find having a little room to spread out is a good thing.
If I was just up to DI, I'd probably be in a smaller room using good headphones instead of monitors. Nothing wrong with a good DI setup.
dmatthews
Dave's not here
I have never been to your space... therefore, it's not real!
Alnus Rubra
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“Poop” that has kept you gainfully employed, whilst providing well for your family, “Poop” that keeps you out of mischief and “Poop” that has entertained us.
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OK, but...
Who says poop can't be marketable and entertaining?
In a way, I'm answering nature's call every time I go into the studio.
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Mixing with good cans is totally legit. Big time mixers are mixing and mastering on cans. I've done it myself to test it. One of my son's gold record mixes was done while traveling on tour, using cans.Except, mixing with headphones.
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veinbuster
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Would you trust me if he let me visit it on my way to Chicago?I have never been to your space... therefore, it's not real!
alantig
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I was going to ask how we know you're real, then I remembered lunch from last year.
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I've done it. I just don't like it. Mastering, more than mixing, as reverb is a pain to get right when adding it while using headphones.
Actually, it's all a question of quality of the equipment and your mixing/mastering know-how.
With the higher end headphones and headphone amps on the market today, it's easy to get details like reverbs right. I've done a complete 180 on this since getting the Audeze cans I use.
There are headphone response-correction and room simulation plugins. Trust me, your room is not going to reproduce flatter response than you can get with Sonarworks, nor does your real room compete with the Waves Abbey Road, Ocean Way or Dear Reality VR headphone plugins -- if you have good equipment to listen through, it sounds like these spaces, and I say that having worked in high end rooms like those. It's pretty amazing.
Conversely, it is exceedingly difficult to accurately mix in most typical rooms, and even in lots of purpose built studios. Unless the room is well designed and treated, you're simply not hearing accuracy, you're guessing. Because most rooms have horrible peaks and valleys in frequency response due to standing waves, reflections, etc, you're completely in the dark.
The idea that people take mixes out to the car, listen on a boombox, then with ear buds, then with small monitors like Auratones, etc., is last-century stuff. An accurate mix translates to anything. I haven't done any of that stuff in many years because my rooms have been pretty darn good.
Home studios? Unless people spend thousands on acoustical treatment (as I had to) AND have a large enough space to minimize bass frequency issues, it's much BETTER to mix on cans.
If the cans and headphone amp are accurate, the mixes will translate to other systems much more accurately than what you can achieve with studio monitors, especially in the most difficult thing to get right: the bass.
Until you mix on the right cans through a good headphone amp, you aren't current on what's possible, even compared to five years ago. It's a different world!
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If you're admiring it in my studio, I might care, depending on the circumstances.
Alnus Rubra
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No one cares how dressed you are when you admire art.
Well, except maybe Art.
“In the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs”
alantig
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Well, there is that.
Come to think of it, the gallery was quite particular about the subject. Even after I pointed out* that the theme was 20th century nudes and it was 1998.
* - with my finger. I wasn't *that* excited about the art.
