Korgscrew
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Posted: Nov. 20 2003, 12:56 |
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This is a problem that faces anyone producing a mix, the fact that the end listener could be using any number of different things to listen to the music on.
My main monitors are what I trust first and foremost when mixing a track, and I can be fairly confident that something which sounds good on them will translate well to just about anything else, partly because of their fairly honest reproduction of the mix and partly just due to experience... They're not all I'd use, though - I'll sometimes also use a pair of computer speakers to simulate the way the 'average' listener might be hearing it, and I always use a pair of headphones at some point as well, as they tend to give a different perspective on things.
I'll sometimes listen on different systems in different environments as well - on a ghetto blaster in the kitchen, in the car, on a friend's hifi system, just to give an idea of how it comes across in the 'real world'.
There's always an element of compromise in the end, and I think the trick is being able to arrive at an agreeable one! It generally just needs a very small tweak to be made to something in order to improve the way it sounds under less than ideal conditions, though in the end the listeners do have to resign themselves to the fact that if they listen under less than ideal conditions, they'll get less than ideal quality!
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