NS-10 Mixing Tricks

[memphisindie]

I'm using a crown XTI 1000 and it's sounds great, enough watts to blow them out, but, I never do. Accurate enough monitoring for just about anything. Everywhere I bring a mix, it sounds and balances just like my monitors. Yay me.

[Bassmec]

Back in the late eighties I remember the best thing about them was that thats what was in most Um and Argh department orifices.
They used to have Tannoy's back when chaps were chaps and women where glad of it.

[Doc Mixwell]

Originally Posted by James Meeker

There's no trick to NS-10's really.

I like using NS10's for Kick Drum Thud Mics, its got the best "ummpphhhh" out of all the broadcast monitors!!!

[Bob Amirian]

Originally Posted by Igotsoul4u

I think the thing that helped me the most with NS10's was finding a good ref CD of similar material that you are currently working on. Match em up and you should be good to go.

I know what you mean, but at one point I noticed it's a bit pointless: why trying to compare fully mastered material to the one just being mixed?

The sound is hardly comparable.

[alkor]

Originally Posted by Waltz Mastering

NS 10's can get very fatiguing on the high end. That's why the put the tp on them.

TW

used some veeery long time ago.
i took care about the highs with some lil paper sheets infront the tweeters, worked well

[ajv205]

Originally Posted by Bob Amirian

why trying to compare fully mastered material to the one just being mixed?

FYI, the best mixes need VERY LITTLE help from mastering. You can put a mastered, universally agreed upon "good mix" and get 99 percent of what you need in terms of a reference. Sure it will be louder, but you will be listening to the tonal balances of the instruments, compression on individual instruments and vocal as your reference. The rest is knowing what to do with the tracks you are given as a mixer, and to get them to impact the listener to the same degree the reference did. The NS10's don't lie, they yell at you when you are wrong. (btw, i can see NS10 haters conjuring some way of turning my use of the word "yell" into something that is irrelevant to my point).

[jacko]

NS10s with Tapco SW10 subwoofer here.
I had Truth Audio TA1P, Proac Studio 100 and currently I have Sonics Anima.

NS10s with the sub translate best.

[Bob Amirian]

Originally Posted by six_wax

Between

"say a giant stole them"

and

"your post is worth a bucket of hamster vomit"

this thread should surely make tonight's highlight reel...

Gee, who wrote these things...

[Bob Amirian]

Originally Posted by ajv205

FYI, the best mixes need VERY LITTLE help from mastering. You can put a mastered, universally agreed upon "good mix" and get 99 percent of what you need in terms of a reference. Sure it will be louder, but you will be listening to the tonal balances of the instruments, compression on individual instruments and vocal as your reference. The rest is knowing what to do with the tracks you are given as a mixer, and to get them to impact the listener to the same degree the reference did. The NS10's don't lie, they yell at you when you are wrong. (btw, i can see NS10 haters conjuring some way of turning my use of the word "yell" into something that is irrelevant to my point).

The best mixes sure don't need a lot of mastering touch.

It's all clear.

I just think that it's a mistake to compare the sound of a song being mixed to the one that's already mastered and released on CD.

It's like comparing a fine lady after she woke up with a finer lady in full make up dressed to kill.

[psykostx]

Sampson Servo amp + NS 10m is a winning combo believe it or not. Bryston 2b-LP is good too... although that amp is a little bit scooped compared to the 3B or 4B. People always say to overpower them ... I say, they just want you to buy a new woofer every other session...

Yea and as for the tricks... one is, if the woofers are flopping around with a cardboardy sound... at a level where the treble is still comfortable... too much bass. The other trick is that if you place the instruments somewhere in the soundstage with them... that's where they'll appear on every set of speakers. It's a fact... NS-10ms translate like no other. You can trust them. You can make great mixes even with a tascam 4 track on NS-10ms...

I actually like listening to music on them too... they don't add resonance to make things pretty... it's all impulse response which to me, makes them sound very clear and pleasing... they definitely get harsh when you bump em too loud and they distort a bit though...

If you use the NS-10m model (not the NS-10) then you can skip the tp over the tweeter.