RedStone
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Hope this is ok for the Mastering section. It's a gear/signal flow question, but it's related to mastering.
I want to split up a monitor feed. For the purists out there, this might make you shake your head in disgust. Sorry
I'm sending mixes to a digital EQ unit for room correction. Did all the soundproofing etc and there are still nasty resonances at 100hz, 400hz and then a bunch of weird stuff happening between 3khz and 10khz. I'm pretty sure it's the speakers, which I plan to replace. Until then, a Friend gave me an old Roland 31 band EQ. I used a sonaworks plugin demo to analyze the room, and I used REW to verify.
I think I have the speakers sounding not half bad now. When I turn off the EQ I notice the natural sound of them is severely scooped ... which explains why every time I mixed through the speakers alone, my mixes sounded thin and dull. I always had to reference between monitors, headphones and car. None were super reliable, which made it exceedingly difficult to mix let alone master.
Here's what I want to do:
I've got a pair of DT900 headphones, which are great but are also hyped sounding (well, thin is a better description -- they've got bass, but not even bass, and the highs are boosted insanely). I've got a printout of an adjustment curve that I think I'll be able to approximate with the 31 band EQ. It won't get me all the way there, but I'm thinking it will get me close. I can have 4 different EQ patches on the Roland, which is cool. Problem is, I have no way of switching between monitors and headphones if I use the EQ. I'd also like to send the Stereo output of a focusrite virtual room box to the EQ.
My first thought was to get a couple of little Mackie VL4 mixers ... the point is something with a really clean throughput that won't colour the sound (much) more. I'm more or less wanting to try things to see what will work. When it's all said and done, what matters is if I am getting reliable mixes, even if the set up is a bit frankenstien and doesn't follow the rules of pristine audio.
I figure the sound was already coloured in a way that made it tough to get translatable mixes (At least not without a LOT of referencing and head-banging-against-wall). Bottom line: couldn't trust my setup. So I'm attempting to re-colour the sound in a way that will tilt the odds the other way.
The idea ...
Mini Mixer 1
Audio Interface (2 line outs) ---> Stereo input on mixer
Headphone out of vbox (1/4 TRS) ----> splitter ---> Stereo input 2 on mixer
Mains outs on mixer ---> Roland EQ
Mini Mixer 2
L/R outputs on Roland ---> Stereo input on mixer 2
Main Mixer outs to Monitors
Headphone out on mixer 2 to Headphones
Use mute buttons on mixer 1 to control which signal gets played.
Done?
Is there something other than a mixer I can use for this?
Thoughts/Suggestions?
I want to split up a monitor feed. For the purists out there, this might make you shake your head in disgust. Sorry
I'm sending mixes to a digital EQ unit for room correction. Did all the soundproofing etc and there are still nasty resonances at 100hz, 400hz and then a bunch of weird stuff happening between 3khz and 10khz. I'm pretty sure it's the speakers, which I plan to replace. Until then, a Friend gave me an old Roland 31 band EQ. I used a sonaworks plugin demo to analyze the room, and I used REW to verify.
I think I have the speakers sounding not half bad now. When I turn off the EQ I notice the natural sound of them is severely scooped ... which explains why every time I mixed through the speakers alone, my mixes sounded thin and dull. I always had to reference between monitors, headphones and car. None were super reliable, which made it exceedingly difficult to mix let alone master.
Here's what I want to do:
I've got a pair of DT900 headphones, which are great but are also hyped sounding (well, thin is a better description -- they've got bass, but not even bass, and the highs are boosted insanely). I've got a printout of an adjustment curve that I think I'll be able to approximate with the 31 band EQ. It won't get me all the way there, but I'm thinking it will get me close. I can have 4 different EQ patches on the Roland, which is cool. Problem is, I have no way of switching between monitors and headphones if I use the EQ. I'd also like to send the Stereo output of a focusrite virtual room box to the EQ.
My first thought was to get a couple of little Mackie VL4 mixers ... the point is something with a really clean throughput that won't colour the sound (much) more. I'm more or less wanting to try things to see what will work. When it's all said and done, what matters is if I am getting reliable mixes, even if the set up is a bit frankenstien and doesn't follow the rules of pristine audio.
I figure the sound was already coloured in a way that made it tough to get translatable mixes (At least not without a LOT of referencing and head-banging-against-wall). Bottom line: couldn't trust my setup. So I'm attempting to re-colour the sound in a way that will tilt the odds the other way.
The idea ...
Mini Mixer 1
Audio Interface (2 line outs) ---> Stereo input on mixer
Headphone out of vbox (1/4 TRS) ----> splitter ---> Stereo input 2 on mixer
Mains outs on mixer ---> Roland EQ
Mini Mixer 2
L/R outputs on Roland ---> Stereo input on mixer 2
Main Mixer outs to Monitors
Headphone out on mixer 2 to Headphones
Use mute buttons on mixer 1 to control which signal gets played.
Done?
Is there something other than a mixer I can use for this?
Thoughts/Suggestions?