Funny Question, But Understandable in my situation

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i record at home, i have decent equipment, however i have SHITTY SPEAKERS....now here's the question..
I have two diff.sets of speakers i can use, the ones im using now have a coo thump to it,coo lil sub, but when im MIXING i cant hear everything in the vocals too good, it sounds clogged up, just not a clean sound comin out of em..
AND i have a another set of speakers but these have no thump, basically no bass, their the little computer speakers, HOWEVER, when i listen to shit on their i can hear stuff i didnt hear on my other speakers..which ones do u recommend i mix on?
 
It's not just how they sound, it's how you hear

I recommend you use whichever smonitors you "understand" the best. By that I mean use whichever speakers where you can say, OK, I know if my mix sounds like *this* on these speakers that they will sound like *that* on most others.

The key is not necessarily to create a mix that sounds good on your studio monitors, but rather to create a mix that will sound good on whatever playback system the mix is intended most for (e.g. FM radio play, home entertainment systm, iPod.) That takes knowing what to expect from your monitors and how their "color" relates to the color of the intended playback situation.

A perfect example is the popularity of the Yamaha NS10 as the nearfeild monitor of choice inthe 90s. IMHO, those moniters sucked; I personally really disliked their sound, and no engineer with respect for the truth would ever say that their response was uncolored or even all that pleasurable. BUT...the NS10 became a "known quantity"; i.e. engineers familiar with the NS10 sound knew what to expect from them and knew how to mix for them in such a way where the mixes sounded generally good out there in the public. For this reason above all others, they became an almost defacto standard in most control rooms for a while; an engineer familiar with the "NS10 sound" could walk into any NS10-equipped room and get a mix that was at least close to what he (or she) expected. It was not because they were fantastic-sounding speakers.

What I might recommend as a course of action would be to listen to some CDs of your favorite artists with mixes and sounds that you like, that you listen to often and that you know how they sound on different playback systems and environments. Listen to them through you monitors and take note of how they sound there, and how your monitors "color" the playback. Then create your mixes to try and reproduce that same kind of sound on those monitors. Even if it does not sound necessarily "right", it should sound OK on playback elsewhere.
 
Blue Bear Sound said:
What's a "coo thump"???????????????????????? :confused:

:rolleyes:
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That's is the sound the bird made when it flew in front of Randy Johnson's pitch a few years ago... ;)
 
It's as if mouring the loss of tears so long wiped clean.
The feeling still echoes on and on.
 
7string said:
That's is the sound the bird made when it flew in front of Randy Johnson's pitch a few years ago... ;)
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That's one of the coolest sports highlights...
 
Coo-Thump is the sound of taking a dump in an outhouse...as opposed to the quaint ker-splash of a decent studio crapper. People rarely think of these things when shopping for a place to record.

//AdrianFly
 
I think it's actually a political revolt -- or "coo" involving the thump party.
 
hah, this thread has turned into a joke,
nah, but wut i mean it has a decent sub wit decent bass
 
Bad News, right now it doesn't really matter which speakers you mix through, because they're probably both going to be equally as shitty.

On one hand, you've got a set of speakers with sub that probably give you way too much bass in order to be effective ... and on the other, you've got crappy little ones that aren't capable of giving you nearly enough.

On top of that, I'm guessing that you're not mixing in a room that's properly designed or treated. If getting real monitors isn't in your plans, then your only option at this point is to learn the monitors you have to the best of your ability.
 
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