Nico2112
New member
After mixing with headphones for 10 years, I finally decided to try and mix using speakers.
I can't say they are monitors cause they aren't.
I have a pair of Infinity cabinets, fitted with 8" woofers and 1" soft dome tweeters. I chose this pair of speakers, because they are my finest sounding ones. I'm using them with an RCA 100watts per channel HI FI amplifier.
Now here's what's killing me:
I decided to work everything using these speakers: Compressing, EQ and levels.
But no matter what I do, the mixes are not coming out as I expected. Literally...they SUCK!
I'm aware that whenever you change something in your mix chain, mixes are not going to sound "like they used to", but I never thought it was going to be this hard.
My mixes are lacking punch, and the low fundation is all wrong.
Here's a link to it, so you can listen:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=371758&songID=5956635
I know that the basic answer is to get a good quality set of studio monitors, and to train my ears to them. But, unluckily for me, you can't find them in stock in my country. And if you special order them, they end up costing $1000 (KRK's RP-8)
The headphones I've been mixing with are Sky's monitoring headphones (freq response 20Hz-20,000Hz), and to my ears, they are the flattest sounding headphones I could get here.
Here are my choices:
1) Go back to my headphones
2) Find a pair of woofers and tweeters that don't colour the sound that much, and fit them in my cabinets. The deal here is, how I can tell or know which ones to buy?
3) Save up and pay the insanely high price for the KRK's
4) Build my own monitors (which in the end could result costing more)
Please, help me decide the best option.
Disclaimer:
I don't sell my recordings, or do them for commercial purpose. I'm just a picky audiophile. I know I'm making a big fuzz about this, but I really care about my sound; no matter if my family is the only one that are going to hear my work. That's why I got into this forum, to learn from all you guys, and to improve my recording/mixing skills, using the gear I have.
Sorry for the long post.
Any input is going to be greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
I can't say they are monitors cause they aren't.
I have a pair of Infinity cabinets, fitted with 8" woofers and 1" soft dome tweeters. I chose this pair of speakers, because they are my finest sounding ones. I'm using them with an RCA 100watts per channel HI FI amplifier.
Now here's what's killing me:
I decided to work everything using these speakers: Compressing, EQ and levels.
But no matter what I do, the mixes are not coming out as I expected. Literally...they SUCK!
I'm aware that whenever you change something in your mix chain, mixes are not going to sound "like they used to", but I never thought it was going to be this hard.
My mixes are lacking punch, and the low fundation is all wrong.
Here's a link to it, so you can listen:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=371758&songID=5956635
I know that the basic answer is to get a good quality set of studio monitors, and to train my ears to them. But, unluckily for me, you can't find them in stock in my country. And if you special order them, they end up costing $1000 (KRK's RP-8)
The headphones I've been mixing with are Sky's monitoring headphones (freq response 20Hz-20,000Hz), and to my ears, they are the flattest sounding headphones I could get here.
Here are my choices:
1) Go back to my headphones
2) Find a pair of woofers and tweeters that don't colour the sound that much, and fit them in my cabinets. The deal here is, how I can tell or know which ones to buy?
3) Save up and pay the insanely high price for the KRK's
4) Build my own monitors (which in the end could result costing more)
Please, help me decide the best option.
Disclaimer:
I don't sell my recordings, or do them for commercial purpose. I'm just a picky audiophile. I know I'm making a big fuzz about this, but I really care about my sound; no matter if my family is the only one that are going to hear my work. That's why I got into this forum, to learn from all you guys, and to improve my recording/mixing skills, using the gear I have.
Sorry for the long post.
Any input is going to be greatly appreciated.
Cheers!