Gidge
Lapdance Test Dummy
Im gonna get me a big-ass console...anyone know where I can pick one up cheap?.....Ill go download the internet and find one.....
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Aniram
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Short term solution
By installing a sub I found those frequencies that my monitors roll off at .ie. I can now hear from 400 hz down and everything is sweet again.
Sonic Valley : Without the funds for Questeds is there any other speakers Budget Conscious that would fit my needs. So far I have found Dyne-Audio BM6's or BM15A's powered monitors. With a Dyne-Audio sub would this be sufficent for a control room designed for Questeds?
By installing a sub I found those frequencies that my monitors roll off at .ie. I can now hear from 400 hz down and everything is sweet again.
Sonic Valley : Without the funds for Questeds is there any other speakers Budget Conscious that would fit my needs. So far I have found Dyne-Audio BM6's or BM15A's powered monitors. With a Dyne-Audio sub would this be sufficent for a control room designed for Questeds?
Gidge
Lapdance Test Dummy
I think the problem is you expect your mixes to sound killer thru your studio monitors....Studio monitors are made to sound accurate, not good.....Id still like to hear an MP3.....
sjoko2
New member
well.... in the first place, the size of the room doesn't really matter, a good room is a good room, if you have large monitors you can use them, if you have nearfields you can use those, doesn't matter.
NS10's have produced more hit mixes than most likely all other monitors combined so no matter how much you guys slate them, you're swimming against the tide, it doesn't stick.
Cyan's "put tissue on the tweeters" invoked some funny responses, but is actually a very common trick, lots of people put tissue or cotton wool over them.
With due respect to Aniram - it sounds a bit like a version of a volkswagen advert "drivers required" - in this case - have gear - experience required.
Aniram - which questeds are you talking about? are you thinking soffit mounted? free standing? etc. let me know and I could give you some advise, but don't blaim monitors for things not sounding right.
Using subs if you are not a very experienced engineer is one guarantee to completely fuck you up. Leave those things for surround stuff, they would only confuse you.
Listen, practise, mix 20 hours a day 7 days a week, listen again, learn to use your ears, it all takes time.
If you are not happy with your mixes, work on them, until you are happy with them. I reality, thats all it takes, work, work, work, listen, listen and more work.
As a little note of consolance - I just heard a grammy winning CD - it was the most godawful fuckedup sounding piece of total shit I've heard in a long time, still a lot better than FT ever managed, but still bad enough to shoot the engineer or even send him to Full Sail - even there he'd learn more :>)
NS10's have produced more hit mixes than most likely all other monitors combined so no matter how much you guys slate them, you're swimming against the tide, it doesn't stick.
Cyan's "put tissue on the tweeters" invoked some funny responses, but is actually a very common trick, lots of people put tissue or cotton wool over them.
With due respect to Aniram - it sounds a bit like a version of a volkswagen advert "drivers required" - in this case - have gear - experience required.
Aniram - which questeds are you talking about? are you thinking soffit mounted? free standing? etc. let me know and I could give you some advise, but don't blaim monitors for things not sounding right.
Using subs if you are not a very experienced engineer is one guarantee to completely fuck you up. Leave those things for surround stuff, they would only confuse you.
Listen, practise, mix 20 hours a day 7 days a week, listen again, learn to use your ears, it all takes time.
If you are not happy with your mixes, work on them, until you are happy with them. I reality, thats all it takes, work, work, work, listen, listen and more work.
As a little note of consolance - I just heard a grammy winning CD - it was the most godawful fuckedup sounding piece of total shit I've heard in a long time, still a lot better than FT ever managed, but still bad enough to shoot the engineer or even send him to Full Sail - even there he'd learn more :>)
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musicsdarkangel
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Yea dude, your mixes should sound lively through the monitors so they are through everything. Well, i'm a beginner, been recording since late last summer. Well I suck but i write pretty nicely. If you wanna make a song interesting, first of all, lots of the interest is in the rythm rather then recording. Listen to any bands with hard rythm, there are bands that play one chord just with different rythms and make it sound awsome. Also, if you have good vocals, you have a good chance of having a good song. Don't put everything on distortion, add little pieces of clean guitar or distorted with chorus in the backround (or somethin like that). I always make sure its lively by making the chorus a really neat transition and making the drum beat killer. Recording wise I can't say much, but screw around with effects, experiment, for that is the way the recording dudes learn. Listen to Nine Inch Nails and see the way Trent makes all of his mixes interesting, where its totally changing the riffs or adding instrument by instrument.
dude what the hell is a console?
Yea dude, your mixes should sound lively through the monitors so they are through everything. Well, i'm a beginner, been recording since late last summer. Well I suck but i write pretty nicely. If you wanna make a song interesting, first of all, lots of the interest is in the rythm rather then recording. Listen to any bands with hard rythm, there are bands that play one chord just with different rythms and make it sound awsome. Also, if you have good vocals, you have a good chance of having a good song. Don't put everything on distortion, add little pieces of clean guitar or distorted with chorus in the backround (or somethin like that). I always make sure its lively by making the chorus a really neat transition and making the drum beat killer. Recording wise I can't say much, but screw around with effects, experiment, for that is the way the recording dudes learn. Listen to Nine Inch Nails and see the way Trent makes all of his mixes interesting, where its totally changing the riffs or adding instrument by instrument.
dude what the hell is a console?
VOXVENDOR
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A console is the thing between the seats of a pickup truck, with cup-holders (to hold your beer) and storage compartments.. Some of the higher class pick-'em-up trucks even have little spring loaded change holders on the consoles...