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<blockquote data-quote="Eric Cagle" data-source="post: 97047" data-attributes="member: 277"><p>Re: Mixing live tracks: headphones or monitors</p><p></p><p>Honestly Jay once you learn what your system does in the room you are mixing in you will be fine with most any decent set of monitors. As Lisa mentioned using reference material will help get you in the ballpark and then checking your mix against the reference music on a couple of other systems will see if it is translating well. The whole idea of trying to get a reasonably flat monitoring system is so you hear everything that is in there and don't have any surprises later on somebody else's system.</p><p></p><p>I was a studio engineer for many years and I basically mixed on Yamaha NS10's (which sound horrible) and then checked the mix on my high end Westlake BBSM10's. The reason so many engineers used the NS10's is because they forced you to clean up the midrange and then your mix would basically sound better on EVERY other system. We then would check the mix on something more accurate to see if there were any other problems there because the Yamaha's dropped off hard below 100hz. What you are really looking for in the end is "translation", basically your mix sounding the same but just colored a little by how someone else's system is tuned or hyped.</p><p></p><p>Here is an interesting article on the NS10 and has a lot of good information on near field monitors in general:</p><p><a href="http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep08/articles/yamahans10.htm" target="_blank">The Yamaha NS10 Story</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eric Cagle, post: 97047, member: 277"] Re: Mixing live tracks: headphones or monitors Honestly Jay once you learn what your system does in the room you are mixing in you will be fine with most any decent set of monitors. As Lisa mentioned using reference material will help get you in the ballpark and then checking your mix against the reference music on a couple of other systems will see if it is translating well. The whole idea of trying to get a reasonably flat monitoring system is so you hear everything that is in there and don't have any surprises later on somebody else's system. I was a studio engineer for many years and I basically mixed on Yamaha NS10's (which sound horrible) and then checked the mix on my high end Westlake BBSM10's. The reason so many engineers used the NS10's is because they forced you to clean up the midrange and then your mix would basically sound better on EVERY other system. We then would check the mix on something more accurate to see if there were any other problems there because the Yamaha's dropped off hard below 100hz. What you are really looking for in the end is "translation", basically your mix sounding the same but just colored a little by how someone else's system is tuned or hyped. Here is an interesting article on the NS10 and has a lot of good information on near field monitors in general: [url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep08/articles/yamahans10.htm]The Yamaha NS10 Story[/url] [/QUOTE]
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