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The battle for 'that right sound' EQ and process
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Nectarios
Martian Arts
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Posted : Oct 3, 2008 21:21
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On 2008-10-03 20:40, Fragletrollet wrote:
and damn you guys are focusing alot on the monitoring setup. I think you can mix superprofessionally on any system, as long as you know the setup compared to others, and your room.
Ofcourse, better monitors and a correct room will save you some work, and you will hear errors better. But if you start out with super monitors, but have never compared or paid attention to that system in comparison to alot of others, and you dont know how your room is affecting the sound, it wont help you at all imo.
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Agreed to some extent. You need good sounding (as in flat, not speakers that make your tunes sound good) AND some sort of good room to mix properly. Not saying you are doomed to produce shite if you don't, but I would love to have speakers that go flat down to 32Hz when I make that bassline at C1 AND a room that does not reproduce a sea of sub in there when the monitors output such bottom end. Basically I would love Heathmans' PMC MB1-XBD Active monitoring and that studio 4, but hey I can't, so I'll just have to make the best with my HR824s and my little project studio, get used to the sound of my mackies, in that room and literally walk to the toilet next door to tell if there is too much sub or not.
THE best way to sort your mixes out is to hear your tunes from a P.A. whilst you are on the dancefloor. Its the environment you wrote the tunes for in the first place (speaking for dance music obviously) and it is there when you will really tell what is wrong with your mixes. That's one of the reasons why the "big guns" have such great sounding tunes. They play massive P.A.s so often, they just know what sounds right.
Peace out.
 
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Nectarios
Martian Arts
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Posted : Oct 3, 2008 21:30
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On 2008-10-03 20:37, Fragletrollet wrote:
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On 2008-10-03 17:58, pipe&slippers wrote:
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On 2008-10-03 16:43, PoM wrote:
if your sources don t sound good enought you can process them as much as you want, it ll just sound like a bad sound processed to hell ( a good source with no processing at all will still sound better )
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+1!
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I disagree. Ofcourse any finished product will sound better if the source material is very good, but dont underestimate the power of eq! Im not saying you should go for bad material, but ive managed to really clean up and fix sounds that originally not sounded that well, into something usable.
Ofcourse, when I start a new track, I will search for the best starting material...
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So basically you agree 
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Medea
Aedem/Medea
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Posted : Oct 3, 2008 21:45
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Btw, I want to write a track without using any processing, just pure synth sounds. Will post it here if I do it
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Fragletrollet
Fragletrollet
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Posted : Oct 3, 2008 22:18
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