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Originally Posted by mikedaul What I find helpful when working in a crappy space (like my room) is to always compare your stuff against other known-to-be-good recordings - in that same crappy listening environment. It's not a perfect solution by any strech, but it helps... |
to take this one step further, my method is to have about 4 or 5 commercial recordings loaded into Itunes, along side my mix...this way I can play 15 or 20 seconds of the commercial mix, then a bounced version of my mix for 15 or 20 seconds, then back to the commercial mix, etc....it's a quick way to compare...
BTW, I mix in a room with low ceilings......and the best thing I did was treat the reflection points...(areas above and to the sides of the mix position)...also, center the mix position between 1/3 and 1/2 the length of the room....this is just very basic room treatment....
oddly enough, when I a/b commercial mixes and my mixes, it's usually never a question of "loudness", it's usually a drastic difference in space, air, and stereo field, to which the commercial mixes are vastly superior.....that being said, even though I am mixing ITB, I can get pretty close to commercial mixes, but the space, air and stereo field issue has to be addressed in tracking and mixing, rather than after the fact.....