Members gubu Posted July 1, 2015 Members Share Posted July 1, 2015 I agree with UKA's point about making genre specific mixes. It gives you a better chance of tailoring your mix to whatever brand of clock radio your target audience prefers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beck Posted July 2, 2015 Members Share Posted July 2, 2015 I've always had (at least last 20 years or so) a preservationists perspective when it comes to mixes. I ask myself, "Is this what I would want preserved in the National Archives or Library of Congress?" That's my reference. I'm counting on some future generation to be smarter than this one... in many ways. I look ahead to the possibility people will appreciate things in the future that living people today don't care about. There's no guarantee it will get better like that. It could get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators MrKnobs Posted July 21, 2015 Moderators Share Posted July 21, 2015 If you take a mix done properly on a flat monitor source' date=' then take that Beats response curve and turn it upside down so the peaks are valleys and valleys are peaks. Then EQ the mix with similar peaks and valleys it would flatten out the beats response curve.:[/quote'] They won't like it if you do that! I had my epiphany moment when I did a rough mix for a client and he wanted to immediately go outside and listen to it in his car. I cringed when I heard how it sounded though his crap car stereo with crazily adjust equalizer but he was in heaven. I asked him what he usually listened to and he put in some death metal thing that sounded equally and exactly the same sort of horrible. Terry D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators MrKnobs Posted July 21, 2015 Moderators Share Posted July 21, 2015 I wonder how in the world do you measure the frequency response of earbuds or even headphones? It's not like sticking them up against a measurement mic would do any good; mics just don't work that well with extremely near-field point-source sound. Try pulling out your earbuds and holding them 1/2" from your ear. This is what a microphone would hear. This is how it's done: http://www.gras.dk/45bb-5.html Terry D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted July 22, 2015 Author Members Share Posted July 22, 2015 Terry, I'm not even going to ask any more how you know about all this stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators MrKnobs Posted July 22, 2015 Moderators Share Posted July 22, 2015 Terry' date=' I'm not even going to ask any more how you know about all this stuff... [img']http://www.harmonycentral.com/forum/core/images/smilies/smile.png[/img] Principal Investigator / Research Scientist on a number of noise studies, member and sometimes committee chair for the Institute of Noise Control Engineering, Author / Investigator for the National Academy of Science's Transportation Review Board, failed musician, Studio owner when 8 tracks were $3,000! http://tinyurl.com/ocrguwk owner of obscure but insanely expensive audio test devices, and thereby able to purchase the best, most expensive audio gear in the world. Thanks for the (sort of) A2A! Terry D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted July 22, 2015 Members Share Posted July 22, 2015 "This is the hardest place in Texas to play. The college crowd here is into recorded music and picking up girls." LOL You fought the good fight. So... what are your thoughts on melodic highway grating? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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