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Originally Posted by rockstar_josh  I think a large part of mixing (and mastering) a song/record is so that it translates evenly and sounds balanced on all types of listening systems. |
Exactly, and the best way to do that is to mix in a room that's perfectly flat. Most of us don't have anything even close to that, but it's still what we need to aim for. The quote below is from my
Acoustics FAQ.
--Ethan
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All rooms sound differently, both in their amount of liveness and their frequency response. If you create a mix that sounds good in your room, which has its own particular frequency response, it is likely to sound very different in other rooms. For example, if your room has a severe lack of deep bass, your mixes will probably contain too much bass as you incorrectly compensate based on what you are hearing. And if someone else plays your music in a room that has too much deep bass, the error will be exaggerated, and they will hear way too much deep bass. Therefore, the only practical solution is to make your room as accurate as possible so any variation others experience is due solely to the response of their room.
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