studio monitors in the corner

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My mixing station is in the corner of my room, and its the only place i can mix, are my studio monitors in the corner going to effect how i hear and make changes to my mixes? and what can i do to get my the most accurate mixing even though my monitors are in the corner of my room, which is the worst place to place them, but i have no choice, and dont have the luxury right now to acoustically treat my room :(


im using mackie mr5 reference monitors and in the back of the monitors they have a high freq switch of +2 or -2 should i switch it to +2 or -2 or leave it at normal?




THANK YOU!!
 
Unfortunately, the corner is a very poor place to decide to try to engineer music. The chances of it messing up your bass response to the point where the amount of bass in your recordings will never be quite right are large.

Also unfortunately, there's not a whole lot to be done about that. Some bass trapping in that corner could help some, if you can figure out a way to fit that in the corner and still have room for your DAW setup. Or, if you could remove the actual corner altogether by using a treated, angled surface, it *might* help some. Also, the further you can pull your speakers out from against the wall the better.

Just set the HF switches to where they sound the most accurate when playing back your favorite commercial recordings.

You'll have to do some experimenting to try and figure out how things will sound on your Mackies when they sound the best as played back on an average system that's not in a corner by testing the playback on such a system - maybe a friend's stereo system or something. IOW, when things sound best in the corner is probably not when they'll sound best in the rest of the world. Trying to adjust for that translation by adjusting the sound as you hear it in the Mackies to actually sound less optimal there in a way where it sounds better in the real world will probably become the routine.

That translation thing is not a bad a it sounds; almost everybody has to do that to some degree. You'll just have it a bit tougher than some by being painted into that corner.

Good luck! :)

G.
 
make sure they are pointing out the way.....took a while before I could stop mixing in the adjoining room....
 
Yeah mixing in a corner = not the best
Practice like f*ck and use a lot of other systems to reference you mixes on to make sure the lowend is what you want it to be
 
I mix in the corner and use a vocal booth despite the advisory not to.
 
The best idea I ever had was to train myself to work with what I got over the years
 
The best idea I ever had almost landed me in the cooler for 10 to 20, maybe 7 with good behavior.
 
I had built a corner desk and used it for about 3 years until I finally got so frustrated at trying to mix anything that I tore the entire thing apart and rebuilt it flat against the wall with my monitors correctly positioned (ear level between woofers and tweeters), spread about 6 ft apart and angled at 30 degrees. After the grueling task of rebuilding my desk, I started mixing a song that I had been working on for about 3 months (which I had started over countless number of times only to end up completely frustrated in the end). With the new setup, it was like magic. Everything fell into place and was mixed in just a couple days (after I had gotten myself adjusted to the new layout).

My friend and I tried figuring out what was going on and the best we could describe it was that it was almost like a virtual surround. The left and right monitors would send the sound waves to the opposite ears because they were crossing over each other. Plus, the acoustics behind the monitors were greatly affected by the corner behind the desk.

That's just my personal experience. I'm so incredibly happy with the new setup because I just couldn't mix anything right with the corner desk.

Hope that helps
 
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