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Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Football is rubbish.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Football is rubbish.
Get the current issue of Sound on Sound and read the review of the Pioneer (yes! I did say that!) monitors before buying anything else.
But, you will probably not improve things much until/unless you are in a position to rearrange the room.
Look at back issues of SoS for their "studio sos" articles. These make much of absorbents at the "mirror" points and to some degree bass trapping. The latter can be as simple as buying some bags of f'glass or rockwool and LEAVING them in the plastic and piling it in odd corners. A some point, if you can do a proper job you can make it into panels but it will still work as is.
You have probably done that which we are all told to, learned your monitors and room and you then apply that learned response to make decent mixes.
Dave.
My mix room (above) is quite small, (apologies about the mess, had a production session today with an artist), but I've treated it pretty well using GIK products. Sounds great. I still need some extra soffits, which I may purchase very soon, but it's possible to make a small room work. My monitors are Genelec 8240a's and I have the Genelec GLM/AutoCal system and the correction graphs come up pretty favourably.
Also. It's VERY easy to build your own panelling.
Get some Rockwool and some Cara. Some MDF sides and you're pretty much there. Lots of online resources about how to build your own.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Football is rubbish.
The Kemper gets used on 99.9% of my recordings.
Sometimes it's to profile the mic'd amps if I need to come back to a sound, sometimes it's exclusively.
Brilliant bit of gear.
No one would be able to tell in a mix whether it was real or Kemper, and I stand by that.
Same with a lot of plugins nowadays too.
I've worked on and mixed albums on SSL 4K's and the such like, and to be honest, I'm not sure the cost of owning something like that is a wise move nowadays. I mix with plugins pretty much exclusively now, but have an analogue back end to add a bit of colour. I may add to it soon with a Rupert Neve master bus processor, or Pultec or GML style EQ. Having said that, I sold my SSL Bus compressor after A/B ing it with Slates VBC. Couldn't tell the difference... If anything the VBC sounded closer to the 4K console than the SSL hardware unit did!
And it's only going to get better...
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Football is rubbish.
I find studio monitors very enjoyable to listen to. I'd sooner listen to music on my Gennies than anything else. I like to be able to hear all the foibles and get "inside" the mix.
Plus it all helps with the learning of a pair of monitors, which in a lot of cases can take months/years.
Put a good pair of monitors in a good room and suddenly everything "clicks".
Some hifi speakers are reportedly very very good, but they're designed to cosset and massage the sound a little more. They're maybe less honest than studio monitors. Having said that, a lot of high end hifi guys also treat their rooms considerably.
If the room is crapola, it doesn't matter if the speakers cost £50 or £5k. You'll hear the room more than the speaker.
And bang goes your translation.
Same applies for guitar amps really. We can't accurately tell what anyone's room sounds like, so largely, how do we know if that amp actually sounds as is being reported??
Nice looking studio...what are the dimensions?
Bandcamp
Spotify, Apple et al
I mix I'm the corner of our living room. So, total crap. But getting monitors has definitely helped!
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