This is REALLY good stuff, especailly when Ethan is talking about standing waves and how things change with even the smallest head movements.
Hey, I couldn't stop reading about monitor placement! I'll check this out too. Mucho appreciato el' Gringo Deablo. (Phonetic speeling) <------
William judging by that cooledit image they have all the noises covered and colored! Wikipedia is great I'll read that too, thx goodbud!
My new mix sounds awesome! However I heard a word that I have to change, she's in past tense and I'm in present tense or something like that; jammed Floridian flub, not good for repeats. Think I'll take a couple hrs and read from Phoo's links before I finish it up. Later
What if you fed a swept frequency (which you can generate in CoolEdit)to the output. Mic the speakers and feed what the mic hears to a wav file. Then see what a spectrum analyzer sees and adjust your master EQ to obtain the flatest reading you can.
Or adjust the EQ on the speaker (if it has one)to obtain the flatest response.
Ok I just ran my fist test mix after speculating an analyses. It works, the song is in English on any stereo system! So far on two systems it sounds like the same mix. And before the analyses and adjustment, songs sounded like entirely different mixes on these two different players. I seem to be heading in the right direction! Thx 7 I owe you another bottle of wisky!
Sigh… do I want to get into this? Not really. What I will say is that if you have a nasty null in you room, no amount of EQ is going to fix that. So know what you are getting into.
Sigh... do I want to get into this? Not really. What I will say is that if you have a nasty null in you room, no amount of EQ is going to fix that. So know what you are getting into.
Your right about that bubba. All the analysis, testing, mixing and mastering definitely nullifies any creative juices! Writers/musicians are doomed ditto the sigh
Bubba, my impression was that this sort of EQ was useful for smallish inequalities.
Talk about a node - we had a radon fan installed, and the first fan was LOUD and made the wall by our dining room vibrate. You could walk around and find the dead spots and the nodes, it was really cool. even so, we had them replace the fan.
Yup, very eye opening the first time you experience it and realize what’s been happening to your kick drum for all this time.
EQ on monitors is dangerous in most cases. This is never a substitute for room treatment. Also, you can’t force a monitor to create a frequency it can’t. Got a crummy cross over or the like? Well, too bad. And no matter now much power or boosting you do the low end will drop off. EQ is a good way to create mud or blow your speakers.
That said, the times it does work is rare. One good but rare use is a notch filter on the low end. Say you have a peak at 40 Hz you can’t get rid of with treatment and it is causing the 2nd and 3rd order harmonics at 80 and 160Hz to jump out… you may want to sacrifice 40hz to clean up 80 and 160hz. But again, this is a rare happening and likely most folks won’t have the gear, room, or know how to do this.
My usual take on monitor EQ is that it is a bad idea. Most reasonable monitors are flat within +/- 3db… and then you put them in a room with a frequency response that can vary by 30db. Screwing with the monitors is the wrong answer. Like fixing a hatchet wound by dulling the hatchet.
Thx bubba, that was what common sense told me all along about eqing my monitors! I’ll do some reading on room nulls The more opinions and points to consider the better
We all aren't so crazy about fish. I have a viscous set of speakers in the back of my van that truly boom and rattle when they don't care for a bass note. Would love to mix with them!
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Think I'll go boombox shopping. They will probably come closest to the unforgiving van speakers.