Hey Dobro...
I would gladly do this except that I would have to get up and run into the other room every time I wanted to tweak the mix... That would take awhile... I guess this is the drawback to using your stereo speakers...
I will soon post a new mix using the speakers as an occasional reference point... If my control room was big enough I would bring the suckers in here...
O.K. so no one on the entire site is going to agree with me on this one... But if you mix using 20/20P's... youre gonna end up with some ugly sounding low end surprises... Maybe the problem is amplified by the fact that my instruments are tuned so low... And I am playing slap bass...
I tell ya... I worked 2 or 3 days on a mix and I thought I had it nailed... Then when I burned a CD and listened to it on my stereo... I wanted to throw the bastard out the window... The Events MASK problem sources... They make everything sound SMOOTH and CLEAR when it in fact has MUDDY lows and TEETH SHATTERING upper-mids...
I was comparing my mix side by side to a very recent recording of a similiar band using the same tuning and I thought I had everything EQ'ed pretty close... Then when I compared 'em side by side on my stereo, they weren't even close... It was like a bad joke.. Now I know that I am not going to match the quality of a pro studio but the Events made me think I was close...
And in all fairness Bro. Stawl... We aren't talking about orchestral music here... Were talking nasty, amplified, distorted, noisy, CHAINSAW ROCK... And very few producers today are able to make that kind of music sound good on tape...
And just for the record... The studio that is the working model for my virtual studio, that I compare my mixes to and strive to match... Indigo Ranch studio in L.A. was, come to find out, built in 1973 by The Moody Blues and is chock full of vintage gear... Not the low-rent studio that I thought it was...
enough.
S8-N