Rod Norman
New member
Speakers and an isolated room are the only way to get really good mixes. I suggest you network and find a friend who would do your mixes for you as you listen on their system (that's the way all music used to be recorded) But if you do get speakers, never mix at high volumes. Headphones are great for tracking. And you can mix on them but then you have to take the mixes around to all the other environments (you would have to do that anyway) and readjust them. Here's a hint: Headphones are often bass heavy to make them sound better, so be sure to leave that low frequency sound in the mix or it will sound wimpy on speakers. Good Luck,
Rod Norman
Engineer
Rod Norman
Engineer
I know I shouldn't mix using headphones, and I understand why I shouldn't use them. But here are two reasons why I probably will anyway:
-Recording music is just something I do for fun in my very limited free time--hopefully I can do it well enough to create something that will impress my friends, but I'm not expecting anything beyond that. Creating music definitely isn't something I would budget more than about $20 for at this point. So, even a low-end pair of studio monitors (at about $150) is out of my budget by an order of magnitude.
-I really only get time to work on music late at night when I don't want to wake my daughter (or my neighbors for that matter). To an outside observer it has to be basically silent.
I figure a lot of people here must be in a similar situation, so I'm curious if anyone's found a workaround that doesn't involve spending money you don't have and/or pissing people off. Because after all, I would like to at least try to do this mixing stuff properly.
Apologies if issues like these have already been decidedly settled elsewhere--just please send a link if you don't mind.