2track: to hype or not to hype, that is the question

[Ari-M.]

Originally Posted by alphajerk

i trust my monitors cause they dont let me down. its sounds out of the room what it sounds like on them... but in a different enviroment. but still the same. if things were way out of wack, then i wouldnt have built confidence in them.

that said.

hyping a mix to me, especially with a lot of modern releases means cutting the low mids, boosting the lows a tad, and bringing up the HF for "detail"... really has nothing to do with the room itself. its part of the mastered CD.

are you talking about BROAD cuts in the low-mid band?? I too find this to be a very bad policy....I find myself notching a little out of a mix around 200-500hz (small notch somewhere between those numbers) most of the time, but it's a very small cut and is usually targeting a specific problem in that area (so kick and bass guitar don't fight eachother)....I never do that as a rule or guidleine tho...I love the natural sound of intact low mids...I very rarely wind up with the dreaded smiley face curve tho...I almost always wind up with a VERY gradual (6DB/octave) shelf cutting at 16k....and of course I like to HP around 30hz with a 6DB slope.....and usually a bell centered somewhere around 2-4k (think pultec style curve)....I don't know that I have ever actually sent anything out with majorly scooped mid bands....I would certainly be concerned if I starting using a general template EQ curve on my mixes....