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Alright, well I'll give these guys a week or so and see how they sound. I have a feeling they're going back. I'll have to save more money for some decent monitors I suppose. On the plus side, this website sells 2' x 4' x 4" traps for $60. I figure it's $420 to get six traps built and shipped...

Well I've been listening to both speakers back and forth on tons of material for a couple hours now. They are polar opposites. The Blue Sky's are hollow in the mids (right around 1 kHz...I swept around with a parametric while listening), slightly lifted around 10 kHz or so, pretty rough around...

In the context of HomeRec'ers like me you probably hate 2-buss compression :D If I were to send something off for mastering I'd send a copy with and a copy without the 2-buss compression. Mixing through it to know how the mix would react, but acknowledging that the ME has better tools, a...

No I'm actually thinking the same thing xstatic. Most people starting out mixing see compression as a bandaid rather than a tool. So when people with experience tell them they need to work on their tracking and automation, not to mention playing, they start to believe compression is bad or...

Ugh, spending the last hour resoldering my cables. One speaker is half as loud as the other, and it seems to be at the cable level. Initial sound isn't that great, I'll have to wait until I've got a fully operating sound card here, but I'm almost preferring the BX8's. I like the sub, maybe...

Would anyone see a parallel (of some kind) between tape compression and subtle 2-buss compression? I envision a limiter as a "brickwall"...and let's say a snare drum is a baseball bat. You smack it into the brick wall and it doesn't move. But the 2-buss compressor, something light like a 1:5...

Really cool concept, but I'd imagine a small diaphragm dynamic wouldn't have too much use on a kick. I like the usual D112 but have to suck out so much of the mids and still boost the highs and lows. I'd love to hear a padded high SPL small diaphragm condenser in the kick for attack and either...

More interesting 2-buss compression ideas. I may not be able to hear what I'm doing, but I certainly learn a lot from people who make money doing this stuff.

Lots of people here seem to like mixing through a buss compressor.

If it's any consolation, I gave the "mastering" treatment to a few albums while cleaning up my iTunes library. Granted, those albums were either rough demos of albums I had found (Jimmy Eat World Mark Trombino Futures sessions, way better than the actual album) or local bands that had terrible...

Yeah, that's what I originally meant. And I've got myself a million times more confused scrutinizing over the mixes and trying to figure out the translation. What would be optimal is to mix it so it sounds great in my room, then bring it around and it sounds great everywhere else. From the...

Well I've got a '93 Les Paul Studio which has an ebony board, but it's still an incredibly dark and muddy guitar. I don't know about the current pickups for the Standard, but the Studio used to share the same pickups as the Standard (490R & 496T I believe). I've tried hotter pickups, but they...

Awesome, that diagram really helps. I'm going to try and build six panels as that is exactly how my room looks.

No they're about two feet out from the corners though. Just on either side of the desk. The drawing isn't perfect :D Next weekend I'll go raid my grandparents' construction supplies (they've got a pole barn full of lumber and random other stuff).

Well, I got about 20 minutes of mixing before ear fatigue set in...that's a new record low. The "clearer highs" certainly have a tradeoff. Well I'm not blaming the monitors as I know the room is imperfect, so I'll compare them to the new ones and see how that works. I still think for my needs...

Well I rearranged the room, and it made a pretty big difference. Before: After: I'd say the big thing is the monitors being spaced out farther on the stands, which REALLY REALLY helped the imaging. The other big difference is the high end is a little clearer, which was something that was...

Thanks for the tips. I'll try and get some progress this weekend in moving my furniture and setting it up. So I should space my desk from the wall a couple feet? Would it be bad to have something in front of it, like a clothes rack? I play hockey and hang my equipment on a big drying...

Alright let me try this again. I will have some vacation time over the next couple months to work on this room. It's a rental, so I can't do anything permanent, but I figure I can improve the layout and build temporary things. I've got an SPL meter, tape measure, some of that fancy studio...

Well I flat out give up. I've been tearing my hair out on these mixes for over a month now and only up until last week was I happier than the rough mixes I did the night of recording the main tracks. I don't know if it's my ears, my room, my monitors, or what but I'm chasing my tail trying to...

Yeah the moment for me was when I was playing a show at 13 and I'd get compliments from a lot of people "dude you rock but you sound like ass" and the like :D I spent a few months working on my tuning, trying out different things, trying to develop a method. I "upgraded" to a $1500 Pearl...