| This may not help your situation as you have several answers to where your problems lie (your room and actual mixing experience,) but I would recommend only listening to music (in a critical/examining mode) on your Rokits IN THE ROOM YOU ARE MIXING IN.
Listen to LOTS of well recorded CDs on the RokIts.
Make the sound of monitoring in your mix environment be your reference.
This way you will match your ear to the sound of your room.
The sound of a good mix in your mixing environment will become your standard.
I only analyze mixes and music in general on my studio monitors.
I am also a live engineer, so I have to listen in a rather critical manner to set these rigs up.
Still, I only try to make the live rigs sound musical.
It is only because I have been at all of this for quite a few years and because I generally get to work with high quality equipment that I can pull it all together.
It is a lot to wrap your brain around!
You need a standard.
Having the home stereo speakers in your mix area for a reference wouldn't hurt anything.
The mix should sound good on the RokIts, but the ultimate goal is to produce a mix that translates to other playback systems well. |