UberGawkman
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Bought my first pair of studio monitors yesterday. Studiophile SP-5B's. Nice. It's cool the way things just kinda jump out at you. Almost freaky in a way.
Anyway, just had to mention that. For the longest time, I've been constantly reminded that you should mix on studio monitors because of their flat frequency response. Tah-da! I did it. I'm glad I did, makes me wonder how the hell I could have possibly mixed before.
But then I got to thinking, now that I'm hearing things with a fairly flat frequency response, what do manufacturers of consumer audio speakers and systems specifically do to their speakers? Obviously they design the speakers with flattery of certain frequencies in mind... but which frequencies? And why? Are there certain things that are common to do among speakers, say removing certain frequencies in the midrange (which are the frequencies that I'm now hearing that "jump out")?
Just trying to get an idea of what's going to happen to my sound after I'm done mixing and it's going through someone else's speakers.
If this has been covered before, please light the way! I wasn't exactly sure how to search for this topic... I've come up with tons of threads that tell how studio monitors differ from normal speakers... now I wish to know how normal speakers differ from studio monitors.
Anyway, just had to mention that. For the longest time, I've been constantly reminded that you should mix on studio monitors because of their flat frequency response. Tah-da! I did it. I'm glad I did, makes me wonder how the hell I could have possibly mixed before.
But then I got to thinking, now that I'm hearing things with a fairly flat frequency response, what do manufacturers of consumer audio speakers and systems specifically do to their speakers? Obviously they design the speakers with flattery of certain frequencies in mind... but which frequencies? And why? Are there certain things that are common to do among speakers, say removing certain frequencies in the midrange (which are the frequencies that I'm now hearing that "jump out")?
Just trying to get an idea of what's going to happen to my sound after I'm done mixing and it's going through someone else's speakers.
If this has been covered before, please light the way! I wasn't exactly sure how to search for this topic... I've come up with tons of threads that tell how studio monitors differ from normal speakers... now I wish to know how normal speakers differ from studio monitors.