Hi there!
I'm quite happy with my latest mixes and they translate pretty well on the outside world, but I'm noticing they tend to be brighter than most of other comercial productions, even when I compare them in my own studio. I have my reference records but when I come back to them after a couple of hours I notice my stuff sounds brighter, probably because that's how I'd like to hear music. But my room just doesn't sound like that.
I switched my converters from Mackie Onyx to Prism Sound Orpheus and I think I'm probably boosting high frequencies because I had the habit to when I worked with the Mackie (to recover that content I was losing due to conversion, not necessary with my new Orpheus). Trying to fix that on my own, using my ears and getting away from habits.
On the other side, I upgraded my room's treatment building some custom broadband absorbers, rebuilding my furniture and puting my monitors on concrete stands
I noticed a tighter bottom-end in mixing position because of that, but maybe the absorbers are sucking too much top-end.
I've thought of trying to recover high frequency reflections (placing thin wood frames over my front absorber, behind my monitors) or reducing low frequencies even more (with other Auralex LENRDs as the ones I already have). Would it be better to do both things? Or should I just try to know my room better and get used to it? That would be cheaper at least!
I'm attaching before/after pictures for you to figure out the situation. The vertical LENRDs are still behind my new custom made corner absorbers, which are 17cm thick. The one behind the monitors is 12cm thick.
What should I do? Any opinion? Thanx in advance!
