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<blockquote data-quote="Jeff Babcock" data-source="post: 98065" data-attributes="member: 46"><p>Re: Mixing live tracks: headphones or monitors</p><p></p><p>Best advice I can give is this:</p><p></p><p>Get to know your monitors WELL. That will help you far more IMHO than owning an ATC SCM25 , Barefoot MM27 etc. As long as you have a reasonably good/linear monitor, the biggest barrier is translation, and that has everything to do with knowing your monitors. </p><p></p><p>I have found that a slight bit of EQ ( for me = minor adjustments on a Klark 5 band parametric , nothing crazy) helps to a significant degree. Play some tracks that you are VERY familiar with, and use a slight bit of EQ to arrive at a setting that sounds "right" to YOU. This will give you a big head start as opposed to guessing and playing head games (ie it sounds this way on my monitors but I think it will sound different on something else). The starting point should be that well recorded tracks sound "right" to you on your monitors. If that is not the case, you will get into guessing games and translation mess for months (or years) until you "learn" your monitors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeff Babcock, post: 98065, member: 46"] Re: Mixing live tracks: headphones or monitors Best advice I can give is this: Get to know your monitors WELL. That will help you far more IMHO than owning an ATC SCM25 , Barefoot MM27 etc. As long as you have a reasonably good/linear monitor, the biggest barrier is translation, and that has everything to do with knowing your monitors. I have found that a slight bit of EQ ( for me = minor adjustments on a Klark 5 band parametric , nothing crazy) helps to a significant degree. Play some tracks that you are VERY familiar with, and use a slight bit of EQ to arrive at a setting that sounds "right" to YOU. This will give you a big head start as opposed to guessing and playing head games (ie it sounds this way on my monitors but I think it will sound different on something else). The starting point should be that well recorded tracks sound "right" to you on your monitors. If that is not the case, you will get into guessing games and translation mess for months (or years) until you "learn" your monitors. [/QUOTE]
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