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Old 5th July 2009   #31
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Originally Posted by graincloud View Post
...i'm working on experimental electronica most of the time what means really wet signal, busy mixes and loads of dsp processing... also mean experimental way of mixing that could turn out great but doesn't have many point of reference to judge the mix... you'd better know the genre and intentions to work on it...
That's exactly the kind of project I learned this lesson on. We found only a monitor system that could do an extraordinary job of reproducing acoustical-sourced music was capable of producing masters of abstract music that would translate well. I assume this worked mostly because reasonable reproduction of acoustical events is the design benchmark that most speaker designers use. The idea of being able to "learn" speakers doesn't work when the sounds are really abstract.
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