How do you listen????

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To others mixes.

Laptop?
Computer speakers?
Phone?
Run through your monitors??



As the title says, How do you listen to other peoples stuff?
 
Sorry man, I moved this post to a forum more relevant. Possibly not the one you would like, but...it was a very basic/general question.

MP3 Clinic is there specifically to critique of mixes. Not so much questions about how one listens.

Likely a miss placed post. All good.

:)
 
I don't care where you put it. It's more of a survey type of question. I thought the mp3 mixing clinic would be a good spot seeing how that is the place where people listen to other peoples mixes. How and what they listen through does have some relevance and will determine how a mix sounds.
 
Maybe the Mixing forum would be a better place for the question...
...seeing how most newbs haven't even figured out yet how to listen!!! :D ;)

Oh...you can actually create a poll/survey with choices, and it will also track the voting/choice selections of everyone that takes part (though I think it's too late with this thread, you would have to do it at the start of a new thread).
 
RFR said:
I don't care where you put it. It's more of a survey type of question. I thought the mp3 mixing clinic would be a good spot seeing how that is the place where people listen to other peoples mixes. How and what they listen through does have some relevance.
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The MP3 Clinic is one of the most segregated of all the forums by member choice. Only discussion of posted songs for critique. The description reads 'Get FEEDBACK on your tracks! Don't be shy...'.

If someone promotes for hits on their site without actually asking for help with their mix, then it gets moved to an appropriate forum. If someone asks for advice or a question non related to the forum topic, then it gets moved.


No offense meant. :)
 
I'll look at the possibility of doing an actual poll.
 
jimmys69 said:
The MP3 Clinic is one of the most segregated of all the forums by member choice. Only discussion of posted songs for critique. The description reads 'Get FEEDBACK on your tracks! Don't be shy...'.

If someone promotes for hits on their site without actually asking for help with their mix, then it gets moved to an appropriate forum. If someone asks for advice or a question non related to the forum topic, then it gets moved.


No offense meant. :)
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Yeah, OK. fair enough.
 
Everything I listen to goes through my interface into my monitors.

When I need to be quiet, I listen via headphones through headphones (also through the interface).
 
I can play audio through my crappy Creative 2.1 computer speakers or route it to my 5.1 system via SPDIF.
 
When I'm sitting here at home surfin' the net...I just listen on the laptop's speakers.
When I'm at my day gig, I have some external computer speakers which sound OK...at least better than the laptop speakers.
Sometimes I like to just crank up some tunes in the studio as background music while I do some non-music stuff in there, and then I'll use the big 3-way Hi-Fi speakers I have in the studio.

However, when I really need to LISTEN...I use my main studio monitors.
 
Monitors in my studio. If I'm on the road, then Bose headphones.
 
Shit, I forgot to give my response to the question...Sorry...

I listen to most everything on my monitors in the studio. It is also my office so that is where I spend most of my 'other' time when not working on remodel jobs or spending time with my family.

I will listen to the stereo in my van just to check my own mixes, but that is lately just a bad habit that I do just to enjoy listening to something I am proud of.

I never listen to anything on headphones other than checking to see how they sound with any given mix. I just despise them for anything other than tracking purposes. Personal thing for me, not saying it isn't good for others.

Ear buds might be equivalent to what I would think an alien anal probing would be. lol! I don't get how anyone uses those things ever...
 
The monitors (have a pair slightly different) are our 'speakers- one and the same.
Head phones sometimes for convenience, the van to check mixes. (Actually got lucky there- very good bass extension, and a hot bump up around 2k or so that really makes verbs and small room effects stick out..
 
Monitors cause my ears are used to them.
Car for the same reason.
Headphones for the same reason.

It's always good to actually test your track in a couple of devices before publishing it.

My monitors are the ones that I trust the most though!
 
gecko zzed said:
Everything I listen to goes through my interface into my monitors.

When I need to be quiet, I listen via headphones through headphones (also through the interface).
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Same here.
Mackie HR624s or Sennheiser HD280s.
 
If I'm listening to mixes, I always sit at my studio computer with monitors. I've tried listening on other systems but I like to take the variables out and hear it like I hear my own mixes. For better or for worse...I probably misjudge others' mixes in the same ways that I misjudge my own!
 
Headphones. My monitors and room are both dicks.
 
I turn everything off, close my eyes, and just imagine what I'm supposed to be hearing.
 
I listen to hip hop in my car, via my iPad, through Bluetooth.
At work we have a crappy radio but I'll sometimes use headphones if I'm doing a job where I'm not expected to have to speak to my colleagues.
At home I mainly listen to jazz, soul & funk through my monitors... Often listening for samples I can use...
We also have a laptop and some cheap boomcubes (I have a 2nd pair of these as well as monitors for checking mixes) in the kitchen... Hip hop if I'm alone but my wife prefers that acoustic, guitar based rubbish to my 90's boombap and UK hiphop... Our 10 year old likes a bit of Dubstep and I caught him chilling out to a bit of Infected Mushroom last week... He uses his laptop & phone plugged in to an old BoomBox...
 
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