How to set up your monitor correctly

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Pellek

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Hi,

i need some help to set up my monitors.
I have a pair of Event 20/20's, but when i make a mix, it sounds very good trough it.

After i burn my music on a Cd, and listen to it trough a normal CD player, it doesn't sound great at al.

How can i solve this problem?

Thanks,

Pellek
 
Before you receive a plethora of advice from myself and others, just be aware of the main factors causing your problem...

Your listening position
Monitor quality
Monitor placement
Room acoustics
...etcetera, etcetera, ad infinitum

A good starting point would be a drawing/diagram of the space in which you do your mixing (showing your monitor placement, room dimensions, listening position, etc)....
 
I have Event TR8s. Pretty much same as you. Great monitors.

Have you listened to some of your favorite commercial CDs in your monitoring room ? Maybe try that for comparison purposes, and try to get your music to sound the same way.

Could be a burn to disc problem as well. Have you listened to your CD mix down, compared to your session pre-bounce ?

Sush
 
:D Yo Pell:

Some good info provided in the responses.

Don't know what gear you're using, but it has to have some "dynamics" and "EQ" platforms when you are "mixing" your tracks prior to burning the CD.

It is possible to boost your stereo out to a higher level which can give you a more dynamic CD but if overused will give you a clipped or distorted CD.

With this you need to practice. I often do a stereo track of my tracks several times--play it back and listen, then adjust.

Also, with CARE, you can boost your sound output to the CD via some increase of the EQ. I don't mess with tiny increments, usually. I just boost the EQ after a small boost in the mids. Of course if you have a bass drum playing against a low note of an organ patch, you will get "the booms."

You can somewhat lessen that booming by cutting some bass eq.

When listening to your stereo tracks before burning a CD, have the volume knob of your service amplifier no more than 35 per cent. if it is loud there, it will be plenty loud on the CD.

Happy Spring
Green Hornet :rolleyes: :D
 
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