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max cooper · 28th November 2004

I've got a few different flavors of monitors, and I do tend to switch back and forth for different "opinions" when I'm mixing. I also try to take time to just listen to music I know really well through my different monitors, and sometimes I'll put up an EQ on the mix bus and make things "flat" the way I know them.

I'll save the EQ setting with the name of the song I was listening to and bring up that curve while I'm mixing as if it were yet another set of monitors. Or ears. I think some newer monitors have similar ways of doing a "virtual monitor" thing, like here's the X100's rendition of a pair of B-52's or something like that.

How many of us do something like this? Is it really so different from putting the same monitors in a different room? And is it common to put an RTA in a control room and dial in the "flattest" EQ possible in a given situation?

Just wondering

I find that I just can't listen to a mix enough different ways. I've been having way fewer surprises lately than I used to. I still think that nothing helps me get an idea of what's wrong with my mixes than the bad factory car stereo I have. If I correct things based on the car system, it usually works pretty universally. Maybe I should just mount a control surface on the dash.

28th November 2004	#1
max cooper Lives for gear Joined: Aug 2004 Location: tx Posts: 8,802 Thread Starter	Listening through different EQ curves while mixing? I've got a few different flavors of monitors, and I do tend to switch back and forth for different "opinions" when I'm mixing. I also try to take time to just listen to music I know really well through my different monitors, and sometimes I'll put up an EQ on the mix bus and make things "flat" the way I know them. I'll save the EQ setting with the name of the song I was listening to and bring up that curve while I'm mixing as if it were yet another set of monitors. Or ears. I think some newer monitors have similar ways of doing a "virtual monitor" thing, like here's the X100's rendition of a pair of B-52's or something like that. How many of us do something like this? Is it really so different from putting the same monitors in a different room? And is it common to put an RTA in a control room and dial in the "flattest" EQ possible in a given situation? Just wondering I find that I just can't listen to a mix enough different ways. I've been having way fewer surprises lately than I used to. I still think that nothing helps me get an idea of what's wrong with my mixes than the bad factory car stereo I have. If I correct things based on the car system, it usually works pretty universally. Maybe I should just mount a control surface on the dash.