Hey John, can you imagine the phase cancelleation too in this situation?
My first thought now though is, what about the room the monitoring is taking place in? Is that "bad reverb sound" truely being recorded, or is it a result of the monitors exciting the room the monitors are in, giving the false impression of it being recorded?
I would suspect that a little of both is happening.
Part of my "half of it productive" stuff I have been doing lately is firming up my "mix position" at the club to make it ready for mixing stuff from recordings too. I have two compilation CD's totaling 37 songs picked from 100 songs that I tracked live to mix in the next 4 weeks, so I need the mix position to be good! Neither client wants to spend more then 1 hour per song in mixing, so I cannot be guessing at what will translate or not because of a bad monitoring environment.
I can assure all of you that you will be making very bad decision about what sounds good if you are getting hard reflections from the wall behind you while you are monitoring. I couldn't believe the stuff I was hearing after I treated the wall behind me in my monitors. Obviously, I was "too dumb" to have made the decision to remove the window and fill that cavity with two layers of 3" rockwool to that low freq's could pass through it to another room and not make it back to me. John tipped me off! What a pay off though.
Thank god I am not "shooting blanks" any more. Most of the mixes I did before doing this treatment are exactly that, "blanks".
CyanJaguar, you should pay attention a bit more. John provided a very economical, and PROPER treatment for this problem. Careful inspection to what is right there in front of you is a very useful skill in recording. Usually, you have to really pay attention to get things right. (this is a big hint about another thread.....I wonder if you will figure it out.....)
Anyway....half productive post is over....
Ed